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A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to his role in a bid to victimize businesses and cause losses totaling more than $4 million through a stolen check scheme.
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Read More »Maryland man pleads guilty to bank fraud conspiracy
Ex-Cecil Bank president gets 2-year sentence for bribery, fraud
Former Cecil Bank President and Chief Executive Officer Mary Beyer Halsey was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, receiving a bribe and making a false statement in bank records in connection with the ...
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Read More »Former Cecil Bank president is accused of bank fraud
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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Read More »Md. landscaper sentenced for stealing $160,000 from client
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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Read More »Garrett County lawyer convicted of falsifying deeds, mortgages
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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Read More »W. Maryland lawyer indicted on charges of bank fraud
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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Read More »‘Spare a square’ ringleader loses challenge to lengthy sentence
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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Read More »Justices look for limits in bank fraud case
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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Read More »Justices try to calculate mortgage fraud restitution
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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Read More »Bulgarian man gets 3-plus years in ATM skimming
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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