Suing mayor, disbarred lawyer, fired cadets round out roundup

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A former executive for a national construction company who, federal prosecutors say, stole $4.5 million from her employer and spent it on expensive cars and restaurant meals has been sentenced. Forty-six-year-old Wendy Collins pleaded guilty to wire fraud. She was ...

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A sharply divided Maryland high court Thursday upheld the theft and embezzlement convictions of a daughter who surreptitiously withdrew for her personal use about $200,000 in a bank account her elderly father held jointly with her but which he testified that he controlled.

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A nursing home that was not paid because its client’s fiduciary was embezzling funds is not a victim of the embezzlement for restitution purposes, Maryland’s intermediate appellate court has held in vacating a lower-court order. Penny McCrimmon pleaded guilty to ...

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A Maryland appeals court has upheld the in-state embezzlement and theft convictions of a personal representative for a late Marylander’s estate, even though the crime involved the sale of the estate’s property in Arizona.

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The former CEO of a Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc., a substance treatment center, pleaded guilty Tuesday to failing to pay $2.4 million in payroll taxes deducted from employees and diverting more than $50,000 from an employee benefit plan.

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Michael C. Hodes, who was disbarred last year for allegedly taking some $270,000 from a deceased client’s trust fund, now faces charges of stealing more than $100,000 from his sister.

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The country of Qatar. A Germantown deli. And an alleged kickback scheme. What sounds like the start of a Mad Libs game are in fact some key elements of a lawsuit that resulted in a half-million-dollar default judgment in Montgomery County Circuit Court against a Falls Church, Va., man who served jail time for embezzlement.

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A federal grand jury in Baltimore Tuesday indicted two sisters for allegedly embezzling $1.4 million from nonprofit organizations, prosecutors announced.

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Lawyer Saleh Stevens pleaded guilty Monday to mail fraud in connection with a scheme to embezzle over $3.1 million from his employer, an insurance company with offices in Towson.

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