Real Estate investor sentenced for stealing $3M in bankruptcy fraud scheme
A former real estate investor from Michigan is sentenced to six and a half years for a $3 million fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney's office announced Monday.
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A former real estate investor from Michigan is sentenced to six and a half years for a $3 million fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney's office announced Monday.
Officials say Wendy Halstead Beard received art photography prints on consignment, sold the artwork without notifying the owners, and kept the profit for herself.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says William Haynes, 26, admitted to conspiring with former contract worker, Autumn Mims, who was in charge of reviewing, processing, and verifying unemployment insurance claims.
A Detroit man turned himself in last week and will begin serving his sentence in connection to operating a scheme that cost the state $11 million.
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Officials say the fraud ring allegedly obtained EBT card data from 8,000 cardholders, primarily residing in California, and reproduced the cards in Michigan.
Officials say a second superseding indictment charged four people from Michigan and one person from Arizona.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, 30-year-old Autumn Mims, of Detroit, used insider access to process claims in the names of other people without their knowledge in August 2020.
According to the Michigan Attorney General's office, 34-year-old Steven Decker will be ordered to pay $28,506 restitution, which represents a portion of stolen money, amounting to more than $400,000.
Officials say 33-year-old Terrell Heard faces up to 20 years in prison for wire fraud after stealing nearly $30,000.
An Ohio man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday for pretending to be a Ghanaian prince and swindling more than a dozen victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Federal officials say Sean Tissue faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for wire fraud and five years for bankruptcy fraud.
A former Georgia police officer has been sentenced to 59 months in prison after attempting to launder $500,000 in fraudulently obtained COVID-19 pandemic relief funds.
A Wayne County man has been sentenced for conducting a criminal enterprise, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday.
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A Detroit man has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison in connection to defrauding government agencies out of $2.2 million in COVID-19 pandemic assistance money and defrauding the United States Postal Service out of $200,000.
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Three family members of a former St. Clair Housing Commission executive director were sentenced to prison for their involvement in defrauding the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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The FTX founder was ordered to home confinement at his parents' home in Palo Alto, California.
Federal officials say Terrell Dwayne Mason, 40, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft and was sentenced to 57 months in prison. He is ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $423,435.
A grand jury indicted eight people in connection with a bank fraud conspiracy scheme, U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison announced Tuesday.
Michigan's acting unemployment director told lawmakers Wednesday her office is trying to balance between quickly paying benefits to jobless workers and preventing fraud, saying impostor claims are rampant in a backlog of 90,000-plus cases.
Local police are now advised to switch to blood draws for suspected drunken driving, rather than the breathalyzer.
The Michigan State Police Fraud Investigation Section, in conjunction with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, announced Friday the arrest of 27 people with felony warrants for welfare fraud totaling more than $210,000.
