by Associated Press Published: January 25,2012
Tags: Cancer, clinics, courts, doctors, fraud, health, healthcare, hospitals, law, medicine, oncologists, physicians
SUMMIT — A federal judge has granted a request to delay the trial of a doctor and two employees charged in a scheme to dilute cancer drugs and use old syringes on multiple patients.
Dr. Meera Sachdeva, Brittany McCoskey and Monica Weeks had been scheduled for trial Feb. 7. U.S. District Judge Dan Jordan signed an [...] [...]
HOUSTON, Texas — Texas financier R. Allen Stanford built a vast fortune through his network of banks and other businesses in the U.S., Latin America the Caribbean, and led a lifestyle befitting a billionaire business magnate.
Once considered one of the U.S.’s wealthiest people, with an estimated net worth of more than $2 billion, Stanford snatched [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 11,2012
Tags: athletes, courts, fottball, fraud, investing, investment, investors, law, ponzi, professional athletics, scam, scheme, sports
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Two people in South Texas face up to 18 years in prison over a Ponzi scheme involving ex-NFL player T.J. Slaughter and other investors.
Alan Keith Nelsen and Mary Alice Monteza pleaded no contest in San Antonio to setting up a fake international investing firm.
Slaughter in 2009 filed a complaint about losing [...] [...]
GULFPORT — A federal judge has sentenced 45-year-old Lisa Brooks of Gulfport for defrauding her former employer, Hancock Bank, of nearly over $144,000.
Chief U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. sentenced Brooks yesterday to serve two years in prison, with three years of supervised release, and to pay restitution. He also ordered her to perform 100 [...] [...]
JACKSON — The Home Builders Association of Mississippi (HBAM) has created a Fraud Hotline targeted at unlicensed builders.
HBAM has established a toll-free number, 1-800-898-4226, and complaints can also be logged online at www.hbam.com.
Complaints will be filed directly with the Mississippi Board of Contractors by HBAM, and the person making the complaint can remain anonymous.
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by MBJ Staff Published: December 15,2011
Tags: courts, federal government, fraud, investing, investment, investor fraud, investors, ponzi scheme, scam, scheme
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked a federal court to determine whether the Securities Investor Protection Corp. should provide compensation to victims of a Ponzi scheme perpetrated by the Stanford Group.
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) has supported efforts to have the SEC and SIPC address the losses incurred by investors, including some [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 13,2011
Tags: courts, debris, disaster, disaster recovery, fraud, hurricanes, natural disaster, severe weather, storms, tropical weather, Weather
WAYNE COUNTY — Court records indicate that federal authorities are negotiating a plea with a man charged with Hurricane Katrina fraud related to debris removal in Wayne County.
Judd Johnston was an inspector charged with signing off on loads of debris removed from county property. The November indictment in the case says Johnston was paid to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 8,2011
Tags: bridges, disaster, disaster recovery, fraud, highways, hurricanes, indictment, natural disaster, roads, severe weather, streets, tropical weather, Weather
BAY ST. LOUIS — A former Mississippi county road manager and his wife have been indicted on two federal charges of Hurricane Katrina fraud.
Roger Ladner was road manager for Hancock County, home to quiet little beach towns like Bay. St. Louis and Waveland, and some of the hardest hit areas from the 2005 storm.
Ladner and [...] [...]
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 pending to [...] [...]
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 funds [...] [...]
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