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Grant White, CEO of Americore Holdings LLC, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination during a deposition Thursday before the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in his Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.  Americore and its affiliated ... Read full article

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

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

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

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

According to this AP story, Italian financial police have said that they have arrested fashion designer Gai Mattiolo on charges of fraudulent bankruptcy in Rome.  The charges relate to Mattiolo's allegedly siphoning funds from his fashion house ... 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

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 ... Read full article

According to this Wisconsin State Journal article, Ismail Beciri was charged in the Western District of Wisconsin with four counts of structuring financial transactions to avoid federal reporting requirements after a federal agents searched his home for ... Read full article

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 ... 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

Sonia Alburez was charged last week with four counts of bankruptcy fraud for allegedly filing fraudulent bankruptcy petitions in the Northern District of California.  ... 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

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