A New Mexico man faces a sentencing in federal court on a charge of conspiracy to commit arson in the 2010 fire that destroyed the main building of the Hitching Post Inn, a landmark hotel in Cheyenne, Wyo. Ajay Jariwala …
A Pelham, Ala., man has been sentenced to 37 months in prison in a money laundering scheme that involved his daughter as a co-conspirator. Authorities say 69-year-old Paul Lane Jr. and his 28-year-old daughter, Katherine, concocted a story about her …
A 66-year-old central New York man has been sentenced to 21/2 years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1.4 million for staging a car crash to collect insurance. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Syracuse says Joseph Dellerba …
A Scottsdale, Ariz., man has been sentenced to pay restitution of $32,000 and spend eight months of weekends in jail plus five years of probation for stealing cactus from federal land in 2010. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Arizona says …
A South Carolina judge has sentenced the 58-year-old ringleader of a scheme to cut off the hand of a mentally disabled man to collect insurance money. Federal prosecutors say David Player controlled the man’s affairs and gave him a small …
A Columbus man has been sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud after the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) caught him on camera working at his lawn care business while he claimed he was unable to work due to a workplace …