coastlinepilot.com | 10/20/08 | $100,000 | Hotel Laguna
A longtime former employee is accused of stealing more than $100,000 from a landmark hotel located on the California coast.
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inrich.com | 10/16/08| $1,600,000 | suspect: Patricia and Darryl Cheek | victim: X-Ray Engineering
A Mechanicsville couple who embezzled $1.6 million from a Richmond company were sentenced to 46 months in prison yesterday for bank fraud and money laundering.
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smdailyjournal.com | 10/11/08 Michelle Durand
A former Redwood City attorney transferred more than $800,000 from a client’s trust into his own account and swindled more than $100,000 from two other elderly clients through a home improvement loan and forged document, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
recordonline.com | 10/7/08 | Staff Writer
A former Orange County Jail lieutenant who 10 years ago siphoned $130,000 from jail accounts and served time in prison is again behind bars.
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muskogeephoenix.com | 10/2/08 | Donna Hales
Former Marble City School Superintendent Larry Duane Couch is to surrender himself Nov. 4 to start serving two concurrent 24-month federal sentences. Couch pleaded guilty in May to embezzling up to $1 million from the school over 10 years and cheating on his income taxes.
currypilot.com | 10/01/08 | Valliant Corley
Three cases of employees embezzling from their employers have been filed in Curry County Circuit Court in September – the number that usually reach the county court system in a year.
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missoulian.com | 9/17/08 | Betsey Cohen
A longtime Missoula bank employee is under investigation for allegedly embezzling nearly $800,000 from the First National Bank of Montana.
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delcotimes.com | 9/3/08 | Staff Writer
The one-time trusted treasurer of Thornbury Township was charged Wednesday with looting the municipality's coffers to the tune of $275,000.
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idahostateman.com | 8/26/08 | Bethann Stewart
A local non-profit group will not be deterred from its commitment to the community to fight breast cancer by the arrest Monday of its executive director on theft and forgery charges, a tearful board president said Monday
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bostonglobe.com | 8/12/08 | Globe Staff
A former Tufts University official who allegedly stole more than $600,000 from his employer used the money for trips to Paris, Montreal, New York, Las Vegas and other destinations, and to buy luxury goods from places such as Gucci, Tiffany, and Louis Vuitton, Middlesex County prosecutors said.
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independenttribune.com | 8/1/08 | Staff Reporter
The wife of Darrell Noles, one of the two victims in June's double murder at the Sun-drop Bottling Co., was arrested today in connection with embezzling money from a former employer.
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oregonlive.com | 7/26/08 | Associated Press
A Clackamas County judge has sentenced the former bookkeeper for the Estacada Fire District to more than 10 years in jail for embezzling $1.9 million in hundreds of transactions.
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fayobserver.com | 7/22/08 | Associated Press
A former worker has pleaded guilty to embezzling $100,000 from the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles over a five-year period.
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pressrepublican.com | 7/10/08 | Staff Writer
A Canadian man wanted in connection with a $33 million embezzlement scheme was arrested at an upstate border Wednesday.
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pbcommercial.com | 7/08/08 | John Gambrell
LITTLE ROCK - Home BancShares Inc. reported Tuesday that a senior officer at one of its banks embezzled an estimated $2.1 million from its coffers.
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charlestonbusiness.com | 7/07/08 | Scott Miller
Al Parish’s investors are betting that he will die a middle-aged man, according to his attorney. The court-appointed receiver is using their money to pay premiums on 13 life insurance policies for Parish worth $42 million.
baltimoresun.com | 7/07/08 | Associated Press
The U.S. Attorney's Office says a Westminster woman has pleaded guilty in a scheme to steal at least $400,000 from the bank were she had been employed.
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ocregister.com | 7/1/08 | Jon Cassidy
The District Attorney's Office is investigating the Los Alamitos Rotary Club about a possible embezzlement.
mailtribune.com | 6/29/08 | Sanne Specht
The ex-wife of a convicted embezzler has admitted to stealing more than $20,000 from a local dental office.
delconews.com | 6/26/08 | Cindy Scharr
UPPER CHICHESTER - An arrest warrant has been issued for a Delaware woman who allegedly embezzled about $80,000 from her employer.
centralvalleybusinesstimes.com | 6/26/08 | Staff Writer
Hundreds of unopened boxes from the cable TV shopping channel QVC were crammed into Jennifer Marie Sites’s Chico-area home when investigators came knocking on her door.
ap.google.com | 6/21/08 | Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman accused of embezzling more than $700,000 from Charlton Heston and television writer and producer Stephen J. Cannell pleaded no contest and was sentenced to more than five years in prison Friday.
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omaha.com | 6/10/08 | Leia Baez
A former employee of Champions Run golf club is accused of embezzling nearly $200,000. Stacy Funk, 34, was arrested Monday on suspicion of multiple charges, including theft by deception, said Sgt. Eric Sellers of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
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boston.com | 6/9/08 | Staff Writer
PORTLAND, Maine --A Biddeford couple who pleaded guilty to charges linked to the embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fuel delivery company were sentenced to prison on Monday.
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theday.com | 5/28/08 | Lee Howard
Daniel Gordon, the former financial wunderkind from Old Lyme who bilked a Wall Street investment company out of $43 million, has been released from federal prison more than a year ahead of his expected release date.
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skyhidailynews.com | 5/21/08 | Steve Lynn
EAGLE — A Leadville woman who tried to commit suicide before she was arrested on suspicion of embezzling $1.1 million from her Edwards employer was sentenced to 90 days in jail Wednesday.
Richard James Ditzel of North Natomas pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to stealing from a Sacramento credit union where he was responsible for the financial record keeping. Ditzel, 41, admitted embezzling $409,000 over a 6 1/2-year period and using much of the money to acquire collectible coins and make payments on his personal credit card accounts.
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stamfordadvocate.com | 5/15/08 | John Nickerson
NORWALK - A Westport accountant accused of stealing $500,000 from his asset management firm was given a bond hearing yesterday at state Superior Court in Norwalk. Westport police Friday charged Noel Lara, 40, of 25 Saugatuck Ave., with first-degree larceny.
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imperialvalleynews.com | 5/7/08 | Staff Writer
Escondido, California - United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced that Elizabeth Rubalcava pled guilty today in federal court in San Diego to Embezzlement by a Bank Employee, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 656. Rubalcava entered her guilty plea before Magistrate Judge Nita L. Stormes, subject to final acceptance of the plea by United States District Court Judge Janis L. Sammartino, at the time of sentencing.
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duluthnewstribune.com | 4/30/08 | Staff Writer
A former employee of a Republic Bank branch in Duluth has been sentenced to a year in prison in connection with embezzling more than $35,000 from the accounts of 12 customers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis said today.
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marinij.com | 4/29/08 | Gary Klein
A 34-year-old bookkeeper was sentenced to one year in jail for embezzling more than $180,000 from a Novato construction company, the district attorney's office said.
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mlive.com | 4/21/08 | Shannon Murphy
MOUNT MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- The former manager for the Flint Women's Bowling Association pleaded guilty Monday to attempt embezzlement. Patti Jo Ashlock, 48, had been charged with embezzlement and using a computer to commit a crime, both 10-year felonies. But she agreed to plead to attempt embezzlement of $20,000 or more, a five-year felony, in a deal with prosecutors.
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chicoer.com | 4/19/08 | Greg Welter
CHICO -- An Orland woman is accused of embezzling more than $200,000 from her former employer, a Chico-based heavy-equipment distributor. Detectives from the Butte County Sheriff's Office allege that Jennifer Marie Sites, 38, used funds stolen from Hamre Equipment Co. to pay her mortgage and purchase a large number of items from a home-shopping television network.
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ap.google.com | 4/16/08 | Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police have arrested an account manager on charges of embezzling more than $725,000 from the accounts of Charlton Heston and producer Stephen Cannell.
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churchexecutive.com | 4/20/08 | Ronald E. Keener
The headline shrieked across the second section of The Arizona Republic last September 1: “Accountant Held in Church Theft.” “Police have arrested a church accountant they say stole more than $400,000 while working at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Chandler,” ran the lead paragraph. Actually it was closer to $521,000 as far as the megachurch of 5,200 in attendance can tell today, says senior pastor Linn Winters, of the incident which is still pending a court date.
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azstarnet.com | 4/10/08 | Associated Press
A former federal agent was sentenced Wednesday to more than two years in prison for stealing more than $1.1 million from bank accounts of fraud suspects.
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hastingsstargazette.com | 4/7/08 | Jane Lightbourn
A 50-yearold Hastings woman, Cynthia Amelia Schmitz, faces one felony count of theft by swindle after she allegedly stole more than $200,000 from the company she worked for in White Bear Lake.
smh.com | 4/10/08 | Les Kennedy
A ST GEORGE Bank employee, Veronica Yee Fong, had the power to give customers in financial crisis unsecured short-term overdrafts of between $5000 and $10,000.She had worked at the bank for 21 years and such was the trust placed in her that she was made a senior lending officer at a busy branch. But that trust was shattered this month when it was discovered that over eight years she had siphoned off $1.4 million to her personal accounts, Central Local Court heard yesterday.
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delmarvanow.com | 4/8/08 | Brian Shane
OCEAN CITY -- A Selbyville woman pleaded guilty to stealing more than $19,000 from a homeowner's association she was hired to manage.
news-record.com | 4/6/08 | Jennifer Fernandez
GREENSBORO — At 15, Thomas LaRose started Colonial Tin Works out of his bedroom. At 25, after working with his father for a time, LaRose branched out on his own to expand his antique reproductions business. At 51, he learned a longtime employee had embezzled his thriving business out of at least $849,000.
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buffalonews.com | 4/4/08 | Staff Writer
Randall Kozlowski, the former business manager of Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church in Cheektowaga, pleaded guilty Friday to charges he stole almost $380,000 from the church to pay off gambling debts.
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nj.com | 4/2/08 | CJ Rothma
Fred Parisi told a judge today he was the victim of a smear campaign, insisting he was a New York City police officer at Ground Zero on Sept. 11 and is now raising money to help 9/11 rescue workers.
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ctpost.com | 4/1/8 | Daniel Tepfer
BRIDGEPORT — A former bank teller was sentenced today to two years in prison for embezzling more than $40,000.
nytimes.com | 3/29/08 | Stephanie Strom
The volunteer treasurer of the Madison County Humane Society in Indiana was charged this month with using $65,000 of the charity’s money to buy jewelry and makeup. In San Francisco, the chief financial officer of the Music Concourse Community Partnership was fired after he was accused of taking $3.6 million of the organization’s money to play the stock market.
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greenbaypressgazette.com | 3/29/08 | Andy Nelesen
Federal and local authorities are investigating allegations of embezzlement at the Oneida Golf & Country Club of more than $1 million.
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ap.google.com | 3/25/08 INafeesa Syeed
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A woman and her four children were found dead in their home Monday morning, and police later found a sixth body in a burning, wrecked van owned by her husband — a former bank executive who had been charged with embezzlement.
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onlineathens.com | 3/22/08 | Joe Johnson
A secretary for the Hall County Cooperative Extension office was booked into jail Friday in charges she stole more than $50,000, University of Georgia police said.
star-telegram.com| 3/21/08 | NATHANIEL JONES
The former director of Metro Housing Partnership, who pleaded guilty in December to embezzling grant money, was sentenced to a year in federal prison Friday.
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forbes.com | 3/21/08 | Nelson Lampe
A Sandhills banker faces federal indictments that he defrauded his bank. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday that 45-year-old Michael Moody of Purdum had, over a five-year period that ended in November 2006, falsified financial statements and livestock investment reports in order to make loans for Purdum State Bank.
kennebecjournal.com | 3/20/08 | Staff Reporter
The daughter of the founder and current president of Winslow Aluminum has pleaded not guilty to a charge that she embezzled nearly $1 million from her father's company over the past five years.
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eastvalleytribune.com | 3/19/08 | Julie Janovsky
A former Scottsdale Unified School District employee pleaded guilty to theft charges Wednesday in Maricopa County Superior Court. Janet Winkler Rice, 59, a former assistant to the district's legal counsel, was arrested in June on suspicion of forging checks and embezzling more than $300,000 from a district bank account.
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bostonherald.com | 3/15/08 | Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The former head of a now defunct Springfield credit union has been convicted by a federal jury of dozens of charges in connection with the embezzlement of $1.5 million.
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bizjournals.com | 3/14/08 | Staff Writer
Three fictitious landlords caught up in an embezzlement scheme involving some former employees of the Tampa Housing Authority pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court.
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pe.com | 3/12/08 | ZEKE MINAYA and ERIN WALDNER
A former Riverside County volunteer firefighter was arrested Monday on suspicion of embezzling more than $20,000 from his company, law enforcement authorities said.
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mercurynews.com | 3/11/08 | Sandra Gonzalez
A 42-year-old Sunnyvale woman has been indicted on embezzling more than $240,000 from her former employer - the Alza Corporation - and using the money to buy cars and take cruises to Hawaii and Tahiti, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.
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journalrecord.com | 3/10/08 | Staff Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY – A Wagoner bank officer has pleaded guilty to embezzlement involving the loss of more than $5.5 million from more than 90 bank customers over a five-year period. Rhonda Harris, 50, was accused of defrauding Arvest Bank through embezzlement and money laundering.
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madisoncourier.com | 3/8/08 | Staff Writer
A federal judge in Indianapolis brought an end to the Ann Geyman embezzlement saga Friday, sentencing her to four years in federal prison and three years of probation after her release. Geyman will serve at least 85 percent of the sentence, according to federal guidelines for good behavior. Geyman, 54, pleaded guilty in November to embezzling $1.1 million from the Switzerland County School Corp. between January 2003 and May 2007, when she served as treasurer.
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afp.google.com | 3/3/08 | Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Disgraced media baron Conrad Black on Monday began his six and- -half year prison term imposed for a multi-million dollar fraud and obstruction of justice, prison officials said. "He reported today to a low security prison in Coleman, Florida," said Mike Truman, spokeman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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media-newswire.com | 3/3/58 | Staff Writer
NEWARK th Two private-practice cardiologists pleaded guilty today to embezzlement, admitting that between them they took approximately $840,000 in salary from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey while providing no meaningful services in return to the university, other than referring cardiac patients, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced.
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bizjournals.com | 2/29/08 | Staff Writer
A San Mateo man was sentenced to 33 months in prison in connection with a $20 million scheme to defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States, authorities said Friday.
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charlotte.com | 2/24/08 | Gail Smith-Arrants
Carolina International School faces a deficit of $390,000 for May and June, in addition to an embezzlement case disclosed in December. "The financial mismanagement was as bad or worse than the embezzlement," school director Richard Beall said. "There were many, many mistakes being made."
courier-journal.com | 2/24/08 | Grace Schneider
For almost four years, Patricia Helen Sherman hid stacks of $100 bills in her pockets and carried them out of the Obelisk Federal Credit Union in New Albany, Ind., where she worked as head teller, federal investigators say. Sherman, 50, of Louisville, eventually took $7 million -- an average of $152,454 a month -- and gambled most of it away at Ohio River casinos, authorities said when they charged her with embezzlement in U.S. District Court last fall.
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tallahasse.com | 2/21/08 | Staff Writer
The bookkeeper at a local Episcopal church turned herself in today after a warrant for her arrest was issued by the Leon County Sheriff's Office. She was charged in connection with the theft of about $512,000 over four years from the Episcopal Church of the Advent.
The church discovered the loss last year after an audit. The last audit had been conducted ten years ago, church officials previously said. Deputies discovered three storage bins full of property she had bought with the money, Reisinger said.
rapidcityjournal.com | 2/22/08 | Katie Brown
A former Rapid City police officer is being investigated on suspicion of embezzling about $30,000 from the Rapid City Peace Officers Association, officials said Friday.
ap.google.com | 2/23/08 | Paul Davenport
PHOENIX (AP) — Legal and political pressures on Rep. Rick Renzi are mounting amid federal criminal charges that set off calls for the Arizona Republican to leave Congress sooner rather than later.
For years, Chris Balsiger ran the nation's biggest clearinghouse of discount coupons redeemed by consumers at supermarkets. But he still didn't care too much for the industry. "It's a lying, cheating, dirty business," he says. Now the 54-year-old multimillionaire is facing a 27-count federal indictment, charged with leading a scheme that bilked some of the nation's largest coupon-issuers out of at least $250 million. He denies the charges.
tallahasse.com | 2/21/08 | staff writer
The bookkeeper at a local Episcopal church turned herself in today after a warrant for her arrest was issued by the Leon County Sheriff's Office.
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timeonline.co.uk | 2/19/08 | Lucy Bannerman
Detectives believe that a cross-dressing accountant who stole nearly £600,000 could be alive and well, almost a year after apparently staging his own suicide.
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pressrepublican.com | 2/18/08 | KIM SMITH DEDAM
ELIZABETHTOWN -- Former Lake Placid property manager Penny Bruce-Schmidt will serve two to six years in prison for embezzling $170,000 from a homeowners' group. Essex County Judge Richard Meyers handed down the sentence Friday morning as Bruce-Schmidt stood and trembled in tears. Bruce-Schmidt was arrested Feb. 26, 2007, after an in-depth investigation, including two wiretaps, caught the Pine Hill property manager telling lies red handed to cover up her theft of funds over five years from the Homeowners Association reserve account.
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boston.com | 2/15/08 | Jonathan Saltzman
Raymond A. Desautels III, an Oxford lawyer whose website touts him as "a lawyer you can trust," was charged by federal authorities yesterday with wire fraud for allegedly misappropriating nearly $2 million of a client's money, much of which federal agents seized last week.
businessweek.com | 2/15/08 | David Pitt
A former bank employee may have issued bogus certificates of deposit for about $3.8 million that clients are now trying to cash, bank holding company Meta Financial Group Inc. said Friday. Meta Financial said it has discovered that a former employee at a subsidiary perpetrated the scheme over a period of years.
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qconline.com | 2/14/08 | press release
Davenport, IA - On February 13, 2008, Michael Dean Miller, age 51, of Burlington, formerly Vice President of Burlington Bank and Trust (BBT), Burlington, and Two Rivers Bank and Trust (TRBT), Des Moines, was sentenced to 37 months imprisonment, having previously pleaded guilty to two counts of bank embezzlement and three counts of money laundering, announced United States Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker.
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courier-journal.com | 2/9/8 | Jason Riley
Todd Smith, the former WDJX-FM disc jockey known on the air as Todd Kelly, admitted in court yesterday that he made a "big mistake," apologizing to his family and the community for faking Lou Gehrig's disease and spending more than $120,000 raised for research on himself.
jsonline.com | 2/3/08 | DANI McCLAIN
A woman who was charged last month with embezzling more than $300,000 from a now-defunct public charter school is receiving public money to provide tutoring to students in low-performing Milwaukee schools.
scnow.com | 2/4/08 | Staff Writer
A Florence woman has been sentenced to 31 months in prison for using company credit cards to steal from her employer, Carolinas Refrigeration of Florence.
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fredericksburg.com | 2/5/08 | Dan Telvock
A Herndon man charged yesterday in Fairfax with attempted capital murder of a police officer may be the same man who was implicated last year in a widespread embezzlement investigation that could include local homeowners' associations.
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mercurynews.com | 2/2/08 | Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif.—A disgraced mortgage broker was sentenced to 28 years and four months in state prison for embezzling $43 million during a decadelong scheme in which he promised dozens of clients he would invest their money funding mortgages in the Bay Area's heated real estate market.
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buffalownews.com | 2/3/08 Matt Gryta and Maki Becker
The former business manager of Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church in Cheektowaga was behind bars Friday, a day after he was arrested on charges that he allegedly stole more than $400,000 from the church to pay off gambling debts.