HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan faces the death penalty in a trial that began Tuesday over alleged fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country’s 2022 GDP and Vietnam’s largest financial fraud case on record. The 66-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat allegedly […]
A former bookkeeper from Milwaukee is headed to federal prison for nearly three years after being convicted on wire fraud and tax offenses. Emilee K. Rueda, 42, was the office manager and in-house bookkeeper at a small business. Prosecutors alleged she made more than $650,000 in unauthorized expenditures on antique jewelry, lifelike dolls, trinkets and […]
A 41-year-old man from San Bernardino County was arrested earlier this month on charges of vehicle theft and embezzlement, authorities announced this week. Investigators allege that Christopher Harms has been operating an unlicensed and unapproved auto shop out of his home where he would not only fail to complete the promised mechanical work but refused […]
A former bookkeeper at the Carlsbad Department of Development (CDOD) was charged with multiple felonies stemming from an investigation into alleged embezzlement at the local nonprofit over the past year. Belenda Lane, 68, allegedly admitted to a Carlsbad police officer to embezzling more than $260,000 in an estimated 680 transactions through a scheme that saw […]
PORTSMOUTH — Retired Portsmouth police officer Dean Outhouse is pleading guilty to embezzling thousands of dollars from the Portsmouth Police Patrolman’s Union, will forfeit his police certification and be placed on New Hampshire’s “Laurie List,” according to his plea deal. In December, Outhouse, 47, was indicted by a Rockingham County Superior Court grand jury on […]