Six Arrested in Virginia Insurance Fraud Scheme Involving 30 Fires Virginia prosecutors say six people have been arrested for their alleged roles in an insurance fraud scheme that involved setting 30 fires. Federal prosecutors say the defendants over the course …
A 34-year-old D’Iberville, Miss., man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud. U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden this week also ordered Jason Richard Woodcock to pay $105,383 in restitution to …
A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges of lying about his past employment to get $25,800 in oil-spill recovery money. The Sun Herald reports Shawn Albert Townsel will be sentenced March 26. Prosecutors say Townsel received the …
A South Mississippi man faces trial in a federal fraud case alleging he lied about his past employment to get $25,800 in oil spill recovery money. Court records say Shawn Albert Townsel received the money after claiming he lost work …
A Mississippi woman has been sentenced to serve six months in federal prison for submitting false claims to get oil spill recovery money. Federal prosecutors say 32-year-old Katisha Lombardo Deroche of Bay St. Louis was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District …
Federal authorities say a 40-year-old man has been indicted on fraud charges involving more than $47,000 he received in oil-spill recovery money. A federal indictment alleges Brian Keith Lee received the money after he and a co-conspirator provided false information …
A 46-year-old Gautier, Miss., man has been sentenced to prison for five months and ordered to repay $26,000 for oil spill recovery money he received by fraud. The Sun Herald reports Vester Ray Bassham also was sentenced this week to …
A change of plea hearing is scheduled for Jan. 29 for a Hancock County, Miss., man in a fraud case involving an $18,000 check he received in oil spill recovery money. Luom Van Ngo will appeal before U.S. District Judge …
A 29-year-old Gulfport, Miss., woman has accepted a plea agreement for her role in a family scheme to get oil spill recovery money with fraudulent claims of lost wages. The Sun Herald reports Sonya Renee Williams pleaded guilty in federal …
Amid a criminal investigation into the alleged misuse of funds paid by BP after the 2010 Gulf oil spill, a Panhandle county made big changes Tuesday in the way it oversees spending for promotion of the area’s world-famous beaches. An …