News Topic: BankruptcyFraudResourceCenter

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A Virginia man who lied about his own death to hide assets from the bankruptcy court and later fraudulently assumed the identity of an attorney from Florida to further the scheme, pleaded guilty to a series of crimes in federal court yesterday.  Russell ... Read full article

The operator of a sophisticated work-at-home email scheme was sentenced in U.S. ... Read full article

A Connecticut man was sentenced to two years in prison for his involvement in a bankruptcy fraud scheme in which he stole the identity of a victim, incurred more than $200,000 in loans and lines of credit in her name, and then filed a bankruptcy petition ... Read full article

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Earlier today, United States District Judge James V. ... Read full article

A federal judge today sentenced Melissa Stamp to 20 months imprisonment for her role in a bankruptcy fraud involving the concealment of cash and other assets.  Stamp was indicted October and pled guilty in December.  Stamp and her husband, Michael Stamp, ... Read full article

Joe Guidice, who starred with his wife Teresa on the Bravo reality show "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," was denied a 3rd deportation appeal and will remain in Italy where he traveled following his release from prison on a conviction for ... Read full article

William Garlock, a 70 year old real estate developer in California, was sentenced on February 18th to one year and one day imprisonment, a $150,000 fine, a 3 year term of supervised release, and 100 hours of community service for concealing assets in a ... Read full article

As reported in the news , a city payroll clerk was indicted in the Southern District of Alabama on charges that she falsified city records and altered check stubs to make it falsely appear that payroll deductions were being made to properly fund her ... Read full article

Arvel "Ray" Henderson II, a real estate agent whose convictions we reported here , was sentenced today to six years of imprisonment and ordered to pay $37,589 in restitution for stealing public funds, concealing assets in his chapter 7 case, and ... Read full article

Arvel "Ray" Henderson II, a real estate agent, was convicted this week of theft of public money, concealment of assets, and bankruptcy fraud in the Northern District of Ohio.  Henderson was registered as a Section 8 landlord with the Lucas ... Read full article

A jury in the Northern District of California returned guilty verdicts against a father and daughter on several bankruptcy fraud related counts. ... Read full article

The managing member of a company that operated the Middleton Mall in Fairmont, West Virginia was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for bankruptcy and tax fraud.  Deitrich S. ... Read full article

A 36 count indictment filed today (April 10) charged high profile California attorney Michael Avennati with a host of charges related to bank fraud, tax fraud and bankruptcy fraud.  The indictment is available here .  According to the four bankruptcy ... Read full article

According to this press release , Rebecca Buell was sentenced today to three years probation and 150 hours of community service following a guilty plea to concealing assets in her chapter 7 bankruptcy case.  Buell failed to disclose to the trustee a ... Read full article

A federal jury in Topeka acquitted local real estate developer Kent Lindemuth of 103 counts of bankruptcy fraud, one count of perjury and six counts of money laundering in one of the biggest bankruptcy fraud cases of the year.  The indictment was ... Read full article

The Deloitte Forensic Center and its Reorganization Services Group has produced the findings of a report that studied the correlation between bankruptcy and fraud.  The primary question examined was whether the increased scrutiny that follows a ... Read full article