News Topic: Developments

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, 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

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

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

Eunice Roper-Allen, of the Allen Funeral Home, who was indicted last month in the Central District of Illinois, has entered a not guilty plea to charges that she concealed assets in her bankruptcy case and defrauded a funeral home client by falsifying a ... Read full article

Anthony Dehaney, whose conviction in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme we previously reported on here , was sentenced today in the Southern District of Florida to eight years in prison.  Dehaney pleaded guilty to conspiracy, mail fraud and ... Read full article

Several news outlets here and here  are now reporting that Joseph Diekemper, whose wife's guilty plea to conspiracy to conceal assets in bankruptcy case we reported here , is due in court tomorrow for a change of plea hearing.  He is expected ... Read full article

Updating a story we reported here , Margaret Diekemper was sentenced to two years of probation and a $500 fine for her role in a bankruptcy fraud scheme in the Southern District of Illinois following a plea agreement reached with the government last ... Read full article

Four defendants in the Southern District of West Virginia have been charged in separate cases with various bankruptcy crimes in a small fraud sweep that U.S. Attorney Charles T. Miller hopes will "serve as a warning to those who would abuse the ... Read full article

As expected, Joey Diekemper has reached a plea agreement with the government and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bankruptcy fraud in Illinois bankruptcy fraud case with ties to a double homocide of two potential witnesses.  Diekemper entered a ... Read full article

The trial of Louis Rivas on a multitude of bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy criminal charges arising from the collapse of his foreign curency exchange firm, The Forex Project (discussed in this post ), has been re-scheduled to July 20, 2009. ... Read full article

Does a false declaration made knowingly and fraudulenly in a bankruptcy case need to be "material" to constitute a bankruptcy crime?  The statute prohibiting such statements (18 U.S.C. ... Read full article