by Associated Press Published: December 12,2011
Tags: county government, courts, disaster, disaster recovery, federal government, hurricanes, natural disaster, plea, scam, scheme, severe weather, tropical weather, Weather
HANCOCK COUNTY — Not guilty was the plea entered in federal court by a former Hancock County road manager and his wife. Roger Ladner and his wife, Sharon, of Kiln, are accused of a conspiracy to accept bribes and launder money in a scheme involving Hurricane Katrina cleanup contracts that the federal government says were [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 9,2011
Tags: agriculture, cattlemen, courts, farmers, farms, hay, law enforcement, ranchers, ranches, scam, scheme
WESSON — A Wesson man has been charged with selling hay over the Internet. Authorities say the problem is James Darin Hoffman had no hay. Copiah County chief investigator Milton Twiner told The Clarion-Ledger Hoffman was freed on $50,000 shortly after his arrest Nov. 29. Twiner said Hoffman allegedly been selling hay to farmers in [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Attorney General Jim Hood is warning consumers of a scam that appears to be surfacing in Mississippi. The scam being recently reported to the Attorney General’s Office is a combination of the long-existing “emergency” and “phone spoofing” scams. In the emergency scam, the caller leads you to believe that there is some [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 6,2011
Tags: courts, doctors, fraud, health, healthcare, hospitals, kickbacks, medicine, physicians, scam, scheme
OXFORD — A Batesville doctor wants a separate trial from two other defendants in a medical kickback scheme. The attorney for Dr. Robert Corkern filed the motion Dec. 1 in federal court in Oxford. A judge has not ruled on the motion. The case is set for trial Jan. 9. All three defendants have motions [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 1,2011
Tags: federal government, fraud, investing, investment scam, investments, investor fruad, investors, scam, scheme, settlement, state government
JACKSON — The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and regulators from Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and South Carolina have appointed A.B. Data, Ltd. of Milwaukee, Wis., to distribute $200 million to investors from the regulators’ settlements with Morgan Keegan & Company and Morgan Asset Management. The settlements resulted from an investigation of seven proprietary bond [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 31,2011
Tags: attorneys, banking and finance, Banks, courts, financial institutions, home loans, homeowners, homes, houses, judges, lawyers, loan fraud, mortgage, real estate, Realtors, residences, scam, scheme, sentencing
GREENWOOD — Former Greenwood attorney and judge Bobby Fisher will be sentenced tomorrow for his role in a mortgage scam. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports Fisher is to appear before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate in Jackson. In January 2006, Fisher and former real estate agent Jim Pruett pleaded guilty to a scheme of falsifying [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 10,2011
Tags: beef, cattle, courts, federal government, food, food processing, livestock, manufacturing, scam, scheme, state government
JACKSON — Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has asked a federal court to turn over grand jury records from the U.S. government’s investigation into the now-defunct beef plant as he prepares for a civil lawsuit. The beef plant opened in Oakland in August 2004 but lasted less than three months. In January 2005, the operator [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 7,2011
Tags: athletes, athletics, courts, investing, investments, investors, pleas, professional athletes, professional sports, scam, scheme, sentencing, sports
JACKSON — A former National Football League player and Mississippi businessman has admitted to using investors’ money for a planned resort area in China and to buy himself a luxury van, a boat and other items. The Clarion-Ledger reports 48-year-old Jeffrey L. Walker, formerly of Madison, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to wire [...] [...]
BALDWYN — Earl Stone was the lone bidder for seven downtown Baldwyn properties once belonging to James Davis, the former CFO for the defunct Stanford Financial Group. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Stone paid $155,000 for the properties. Stone says he hopes the properties will be used to help reinvigorate the area. Davis is [...] [...]
JACKSON — The Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office today began its administrative proceeding against Brian B. Sullivan, Gary Stringer and Michelle Wood, employees of Morgan Keegan & Company and Morgan Asset Management. These individuals are believed to have participated in providing Mississippi investors inaccurate information regarding the bond funds in which Mississippi investors lost millions [...] [...]
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