Recent Posts in Fraud Category
Posted on Apr 25, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
A millionaire who experienced his fifteen minutes of fame last year has found himself in trouble with the law. M.A.P. III has been accused of wire fraud , mail fraud and bank fraud by federal ...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker are the leading online poker sites in the United States. The Internet poker marks was approximately $5.1 billion and the global online gambling market ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Last August, a man entered the Salem District Court clerk's office and pretended to be his own brother. He then handed a clerk a death certificate that showed that he had passed away. The death ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A man in Tennessee was arrested for a felony offense of .... stealing a pizza. It all started when a woman and her boyfriend were hungry for a late night pizza. They ordered it from Pizza Hut and ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Jeffrey Bruteyn, former managing director of AmeriFirst Funding Corp, was sentenced to 25 years for a scheme that raised more than $50 million for more than 600 investors from Texas and Florida. Many ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Two sisters on the run in South America, who have been missing since 2007, were arrested Sunday in Columbia. They were on the federal most-wanted list for Medicare fraud. They are alleged to have ...
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