A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Ohio (Cincinnati) have charged twelve individuals with operating a multistate South Florida-based moving scam that allegedly victimized more than 900 people. Five of the twelve defendants have been arrested, including four in South
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Emilio Vazquez, 47, of Coral Gables, Florida, was sentenced yesterday after pleading guilty in April in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to 120 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for one
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed an eight-count civil complaint against Palm Beach real estate developer Robert Matthews and another businessman, Joseph Walsh, Sr., accusing them of securities fraud for misusing millions of dollars solicited from foreign investors for the long-troubled
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A complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission charges Dragon-Click Corp, its president Isaac Grossman, his wife Adriana Grossman, and her unregistered investment adviser Dragon Management, LLC with an ongoing fraudulent offering of Dragon-Click stock and membership interests in Dragon Partners,
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Michael R. Casey, 71, a fugitive for over four years, wanted on federal charges related to an alleged $20 million investment fraud scheme, had his initial appearance yesterday before United States Magistrate Judge Lauren F. Louis in the Southern District of Florida,
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25 defendants were charged in Manhattan Federal Court last week with a multimillion-dollar wire fraud and money laundering scheme that alleged the co-conspirators posted fake advertisements for cars and tricked victims nationwide into wiring more than $4.5 Million into fraudulent accounts. The
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A former Boca Raton man who ran a Pompano Beach tax-preparation business was sentenced last week to a total of 66 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in May to illegally using the identities of people with cerebral palsy and imprisoned
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar III, announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed
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According to information disclosed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District (Miami Division), Michael Mazar was employed as a BOP correctional officer at the Federal Detention Center in Miami from July 2009 through April 2017. In February 2017, Mazar
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Although the nation-wide trend is showing a decline in federal white collar criminal cases, the number of cases in the Southern District of Florida over the last 20 years has drastically increased. So far in FY 2018, the Southern District of Florida
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