Dispositions & Sentencings

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 $38,960.53 inheritance.  She was ordered to make restitution in that amount as part of the sentence.

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 November.  Diekemper was also prohibited from any contact with her husband - whose sentencing hearing is scheduled for next month.  Federal prosecutors asked U.S.

Tammy Beecher and Wyatt Beecher, a Pennsylvania couple, were each sentenced to fifteen days in prison by U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Andrew Smyser in the Middle District of Pennsylvania for contempt of court for untruthful conduct in their joint bankruptcy case.

According to this news report, Calisto Tanzi, the founder of Italian food manufacturer Parmalat was sentenced earlier this month in Milan to serve ten years in prison for his criminal role in the firm's well-publicized collapse.  Tanzi was convicted and sentenced on bankruptcy fraud and criminal association charges.  Dubbed "Europe's Enron," the Parmalat collapse resulted in a series of criminal trials including two of Tanzi's adult children (who negotiated

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 making a false declaration in a bankruptcy case last October.  He admitted before sentencing that he began investing in real