The former president and CEO of Cecil Bank has been charged with bank fraud for allegedly conspiring to make a straw purchase of a home that had been foreclosed on by the bank. Mary Beyer Halsey, 59, of Rising Sun, ...

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A landscaper who stole $160,000 from a client account after helping the client set up online banking has been sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison. Forty-year-old Jeffrey Poole of Parkton was also ordered to pay restitution at sentencing Monday ...

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A Garrett County attorney was convicted Friday by a federal jury of bank fraud and related offenses. Angela M. Blythe, 51, an Oakland solo practitioner, will be sentenced in December. Blythe, 51, was indicted in December 2014 for using false ...

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A federal grand jury in Baltimore has indicted a Western Maryland lawyer on charges of conspiracy and bank fraud stemming from a series of property sales. Oakland attorney Angela Blythe didn’t immediately return a call from The Associated Press Friday ...

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A federal appeals court has affirmed a 21.5-year sentence for the Baltimore ringleader behind a five-year scheme to distract and steal credit cards from women in public restroom stalls.

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Expressing an unwillingness to dramatically expand the scope of offenses that fall under the federal bank fraud statute, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court searched for some type of limiting principle Tuesday.

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The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tried to figure out during oral arguments Tuesday in Robers v. U.S., No. 12-9012, just how much restitution was owed to a victim of bank fraud under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act.

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A Bulgarian national who helped run an ATM skimming scheme in Maryland was sentenced to over three years in prison Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.

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GREENBELT — A Greenbelt man has been sentenced to seven years in prison in a scheme to use stolen credit card convenience checks to defraud Bank of America of more than $600,000. Twenty-three-year-old Bolarinwa Adeyale was sentenced Monday after being ...

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GREENBELT — Two men have been sentenced for their part in a bank fraud plot which stole $320,000. Twenty-three-year-old Stephen L. Wise of Washington was sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $59,000 ...

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