Financial Investigations May 14, 2018
Repeat Fraudster and Long-Time Fugitive Heads Back To The Slammer
Repeat Fraudster Pays the Price The 75-year-old long-time fugitive and repeat fraudster known as “Butch” Ballow receives a second federal…
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Financial Investigations May 14, 2018
Repeat Fraudster Pays the Price The 75-year-old long-time fugitive and repeat fraudster known as “Butch” Ballow receives a second federal…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations May 13, 2018
Bank Fraud, An Attorney, and the Long Hand of the Law A Houston, Texas, attorney enters a guilty plea to…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations May 13, 2018
Product and False Claims A New Jersey company, Mikey & Momo, Inc., and its owners agree to settle Federal Trade…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations May 11, 2018
Fraudulent Timeshare Resale Scheme A Florida operation offering a fraudulent timeshare resale scheme receives a lifetime ban from the Federal…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations May 11, 2018
Vicodin Is Not Candy Marios D. Papachristou, 43, of Allison Park, PA, is a former radiologist at the University of…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations May 11, 2018
Illegal Car Nationalization Business Seven individuals forfeit more than $13 million in real estate holdings to federal authorities following their…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations May 11, 2018
Keeping It In the Family Five members of a family receive indictments alleging complicity in a $4 million extortion and…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations May 9, 2018
Deceptive Marketers and Expansive Fraud Scheme Deceptive marketers for a work-at-home and business coaching scheme swindle consumers out of millions…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations May 9, 2018
FCPA and Global Reach The Securities and Exchange Commission announces that Japan-based Panasonic Corporation shall pay in excess of $143…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations May 9, 2018
Ponzi Scheme in the Lumber Industry The Securities and Exchange Commission publicizes fraud charges against a Mississippi company and its…
By Peter Moreno