If you have no knowledge of big transactions but they are on your statements, you are most likely a victim of fraud.
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Read More »January 24, 2023 Comments Off on Tips for businesses, consumers to be on the lookout for fraud
If you have no knowledge of big transactions but they are on your statements, you are most likely a victim of fraud.
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Read More »October 24, 2022 Comments Off on Football-injury defense gains no yardage in bank-fraud appeal
Today is Monday, the 77th anniversary of the day the United Nations Charter went into effect. Here are some other news items. — U.S. appeals court rejects disbarred lawyer’s football-related-head-injuries defense to bank fraud. — California judge rules for Christian ...
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Read More »December 3, 2021 Comments Off on Maryland man pleads guilty to bank fraud conspiracy
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 »November 6, 2020 Comments Off on 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 »February 20, 2020 Comments Off on 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 »December 8, 2015 Comments Off on 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 »October 9, 2015 Comments Off on 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 »January 23, 2015 Comments Off on 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 »August 19, 2014 Comments Off on ‘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 »April 1, 2014 Comments Off on 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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