Recent Posts in Fraud Category
Posted on Nov 8, 2012 By Attorney Robert M. Bernstein
An Orange County man convinced parents and grandparents he met through his children's sports program to invest money in a business, promising high and quick returns. He collected about $350,000 ...
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Posted on May 23, 2012 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
Irvine securities lawyer, Jeanne Rowzee, has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for securities fraud and conspiracy after participating in a Ponzi scheme that took in $25 million with ...
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Posted on Apr 9, 2012 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
A former Los Angeles school police officer has been found guilty of multiple felonies including planting false evidence, insurance fraud and workers' compensation fraud after falsely reporting ...
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Posted on Aug 9, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein, Esq.
Dr. Glen Justice, an Orange County cancer doctor, ran a fraudulent scam from 2004 to 2009 that caused health insurance providers to suffer losses between $400,000 and $1 million. Justice defrauded ...
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Posted on Aug 5, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
A North Hollywood man, Petros Odachyan, pleaded guilty in June 2010 in Los Angeles Federal court to conspiracy to commit Health Care Fraud. He was the manager of RL Medical Supply and fraudulently ...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
Kathy Stamps, a United States Forest Service accountant at the Angeles National Forest offices in Arcadia, had access to funds contributed by private entities for road construction and other projects ...
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Posted on Jun 23, 2011 By Law Offices of Robert M. Bernstein
A former Marina del Rey man was recently sentenced for defrauding banks by seeking home equity lines of credit simultaneously from four different federally insured financial institutions. Larry P. ...
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Posted on May 25, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
A man was recently sentenced to six years in federal prison for running a telemarketing scheme that bilked more than 80,000 people out of $6 million by offering non-existent bartender or "mystery ...
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Posted on May 22, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
Lenny Dykstra, former Major League ballplayer for the Mets and Phillies, is accused of embezzling from a bankruptcy estate. After Dykstra filed for bankruptcy in July of 2009, he sold many items ...
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Posted on Apr 5, 2011 By Criminal Defense
Constantine Peter Kallas, a former U.S. immigration attorney, was recently sentenced to 17 years in prison after being found guilty of accepting cash bribes in exchange for letting illegal immigrants ...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2011 By Criminal Defense
A Hermosa Beach woman, Debra Louise Brass, sold dozens of fake Lady Gaga tickets on Craigslist last summer. She has been charged with Grand Theft. Police learned about the phony tickets from a woman ...
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Posted on Mar 11, 2011 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Faye Shilling, a Los Angeles woman who staged fake funerals to defraud insurance companies out of nearly $1 million, was recently sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay around ...
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Posted on Mar 6, 2011 By Criminal Defense Attorney
An Orange County real estate broker, Kathy Chen, was convicted of 136 felony counts, including one count of conspiracy, 47 counts of grand theft, 37 counts of forgery, 15 counts of identity theft and ...
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Posted on Oct 7, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
Jonathan Dickstein, a former partner of the large international law firm, Morrison and Foerster, is facing over 30 felony criminal charges including Grand Theft, Forgery, Insurance Fraud and ...
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Posted on Sep 23, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
Credit Card Fraud has become an increasingly common crime in California and throughout the United States. It is a form of theft and can occur in the following ways; deceiving someone into giving you ...
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Posted on Mar 4, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
On March 6, 2009, Santa Monica Firefighters were called to put out a vehicle engulfed in flames on 9 th Street. Once the flames had been extinguished, officers found a gas can in the car and a lighter ...
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Posted on Feb 5, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
United States District Judge Cormac J. Carney dismissed all charges against Broadcom Corp.'s former Chief Financial Officer William J. Ruehle, who was charged with 14 counts of Fraud, Conspiracy, ...
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Posted on Jan 20, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
Tatiana Khan, the 69-year-old owner of Chateau Allegre gallery on La Cienega Boulevard, has been accused of allegedly hiring an artist to draw a copy of a 1902 pastel drawing by Picasso called "The ...
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Posted on Jun 5, 2009 By Robert Bernstein
An Orange County, CA woman has been accused of using a false identity to obtain new breast implants from a plastic surgeon. Yvonne Jean Pampellonne, 30, nicknamed the 'Breast Implant Bandit', is now ...
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