News Topic: Developments

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

In a previous post ( here ) we commented that the Judicial Conference of the United States had certified to the House of Representatives that impeachment proceedings may be warranted against U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteus (E.D. ... Read full article

Updating a case we reported on earlier ( here ) Moty Rosenkrantz a/k/a Michael Rosenkrantz, the owner of B&W Motor Cars, pled guilty to structuring banking transactions to avoid reporting requirements and making a false oath in a bankruptcy case.  The ... 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

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

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

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

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

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