News Topic: 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 ... Read full article

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 ... 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

Now that debtors must produce copies of their tax returns in bankruptcy cases as part of the bankruptcy laws' already numerous disclosure requirements it was only a matter of time before we began to see some criminal cases built on debtors' ... 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

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

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

Now that debtors must produce copies of their tax returns in bankruptcy cases as part of the bankruptcy laws' already numerous disclosure requirements it was only a matter of time before we began to see some criminal cases built on debtors' ... 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

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