The trustees of the Maryland Bar’s Client Protection Fund validly rejected a man’s request to be reimbursed for the $2.6 million a since-convicted and disbarred attorney bilked from the escrow account the lawyer had managed for him, the state’s second ...

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A California judge declared a mistrial in the embezzlement trial of attorney Michael Avenatti, who is charged with stealing millions from his clients.

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Welcome to Monday, the 101st anniversary of  the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hammer v. Dagenhart decision striking down as unconstitutional a federal law prohibiting the transportation across state lines of goods made via child labor. (The ruling was overturned in 1941 ...

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The former chief operating officer for the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development who admitted to embezzling $6.7 million in county funds was sentenced to four years in prison by a federal judge Friday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. ...

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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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