Indictments

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 chapter 13 plan payments, according to the indictment.  Sheila Milner Jackson was charged with filing a fraudulent document in a b

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 fraud charges, Avennati, submitted, under penalty of perjury, monthly operating reports on behalf of a law firm Eagan Avennati a debtor and debtor in possession, that failed to report all of the firm’s accounts receivable

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 decedent's funeral expenses.

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

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 before filing bankruptcy.