In the News

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 evidence of bankruptcy fraud.  Beciri filed bankruptcy in November 2007.  During the course of a search for evidence of bankruptcy fraud, authorities uncovered evidence that Beciri had cashed approximately 60 checks totalling nearly

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.

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