Former businessman, Walter Liew, 62, who was convicted of making false statements in bankruptcy along with several offenses related to trade secrets and economic espionage, has requested that a federal court in Oakland, CA allow him to serve the remainder ... Read full article
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Ohio denied a request by John W. ... Read full article
A bankruptcy fraud defendant who "relie[d] entirely on the generalized threat of COVID-19" and "failed to explain why he is particularly vulnerable to it" is not entitled to compassionate release under the First Step Act, ruled a ... Read full article
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) furloughed a former bankruptcy lawyer serving a 63 month sentence following a guilty plea to several bankruptcy crimes. Peter Ressler, 72, pled guilty in 2017 to wire fraud (18 U.S.C. 1343), embezzlement from a bankruptcy ... Read full article
Updating a case when wrote about here , Chief U.S. District Judge John E. ... Read full article
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida denied the request of a bankruptcy fraud defendant to modify the terms of his supervised released. David Griffin was convicted, in connection a mortgage rescue scheme, of bankruptcy fraud and ... Read full article
The Third Circuit recently remanded the case of a bankruptcy fraud defendant for re-sentencing on the ground that the district court failed adequately to explain how it applied the statutory sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) and failed to explain ... Read full article
In a case we reported on here , Aston Wood of Wisconsin and Florida was sentenced today to 12 years imprisonment for his role in a mortgage rescue scheme that defrauded more than 70 homeowners in Wisconsin of approximately $390,000. Wood was able to ... Read full article
