California Man Set for Wine Warehouse Fire Hearing
A San Francisco wine keeper who was ready to stand trial for a fire that destroyed a warehouse has scheduled a change-of-plea hearing. The 2005 fire in the warehouse caused the loss of over six million bottles of wine, and an estimated two hundred fifty million dollars‘ worth of damage. The warehouse stored wines for [...]
Judge Linked to Stripper Gets A Year of Probation
A former Florida judge whose career ended with accusations of his having a relationship with a stripper was recently sentenced to a year of probation for bank fraud. Thomas E. Stringer was sentenced on Friday in a federal court in Tampa. Stringer resigned from his court in February, several months after a stripper said he [...]
Man Gets Jail for Cashing Dead Mother’s Checks
A man in upstate New York has been sentenced to six months in jail for hiding the body of his dead ninety-eight-year-old mother in a freezer and cashing her Social Security checks. Rosland Auslander, age seventy, hid Herta Auslander’s body in the freezer at their home after she had died from natural causes. He then [...]
Broker Gets Two Months in Jail in Tax Probe
A yacht broker in Florida has been sentenced to two months in jail for a tax conviction as a result of an investigation of secret accounts at a Swiss bank. British-born Robert Moran was facing over a year in prison on Friday, but asked for probation because he had helped prosecutors. Judge James I. Cohn [...]
New York Man Charged in $365K Fitness Scam
A former college staffer convicted of stealing funds from the school at which he worked attempted to repay it by getting investors to fund a fictitious online fitness magazine. Mark Andrew Moore attracted investors from at least six different states in order to collect three hundred sixty-five dollars for what he said was an online [...]
Lawyer Suspected of Fraud has Office Searched
Federal agents spent last night searching the law offices of a relatively high-profile southern Florida attorney suspected to be part of a massive fraud scheme. A spokesperson for the law firm, Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, said that firm officials cooperated with FBI and Internal Revenue agents during the search on Thursday morning. The investigation was focused [...]
Professor and Wife Indicted on Fraud, Money Charges
A professor at the University of Florida and his wife have been accused of receiving fraudulent government contracts from NASA and several other government agencies and then moving the funds to their personal bank accounts. A federal grand jury has charged sixty-year-old Samim Anghaie and his fifty-five-year-old wife Sousan in an indictment of seventy-one counts [...]
West Point Employee Admits to $3M Fraud Scheme
A New York woman who worked in the dean’s office at West Point Military Academy has admitted to defrauding the government out of almost three million dollars. Bobbie Cyana Ryan, of Highland Falls, pleaded guilty on Wednesday for her role in a scheme that diverted payments from the academy to a false corporation she controlled. [...]
Man Gets 18 Months in Gay Immigration Fraud
A man accused of advising immigrants to say they had been persecuted for homosexuality in their home country when applying for asylum has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison. Steven Mahoney, of Washington, advertised as an expert in immigration affairs, and ran Mahoney and Associates in Kent, Washington. His company advised immigrants on how [...]
Michael Swann is Appointed Legal Aid for Upcoming Trial
Michael Swann, a once a millionaire, was recently appointed free legal aid for his upcoming trial. Swann was charged and convicted of stealing nearly $17 million from the Otago District Health Board. He now undergoes another legal battle as additional charges are leveled for accepting a corrupt payment. Swann, whose assets are still being tabulated [...]