BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury today indicted four men for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge Keith Morris announced. An indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges CHARLES HENRY ROSS JR., 41, of the Birmingham area, and DAVID WAYNE THOMPSON, 42, and CHRISTOPHER Read More »
Little Rock – Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Randall C. Coleman, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Christopher A. Henry, Special Agent in Charge of the Nashville Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation announced Read More »
OAKLAND, Calif. – Two southern California men pleaded guilty today in the Northern District of California for their roles in a scheme to defraud nearly 1,000 debit card holders by using stolen bank account information to withdraw money from ATMs, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag; Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; and Andrew C. Adelmann, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service San Francisco Field Office.
BECKLEY, W.Va. – A former First Citizens Bank (First Citizens) manager pleaded guilty today in federal court before United States District Judge Irene C. Berger to bank fraud. John R. Garris, 46, of Beckley, West Virginia, was a financial services manager at the banking company’s Lewisburg, West Virginia branch from January 2007 to February 2011. Read More »
BUFFALO, N.Y.– U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jason Hall, 24, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of bank fraud, was sentenced to one month in prison, seven months home confinement, and three years supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara. Hall was also ordered to pay restitution in Read More »
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A former Branch Banking and Trust Company (BB&T) employee was sentenced today to 30 months in prison by United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. for making a false bank entry. Bonnie J. Bain, 60, of Belle, Kanawha County, West Virginia, previously pleaded guilty in June. Bain was an employee of Read More »
MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Two individuals named in two separate Indictments returned on January 18, 2012, by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Martinsburg have been arrested. United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced that: ISMAIL S. OMARA a/k/a OMARA S. ISMAIL, age 33, of Wallingford, Pennsylvania, was arrested in New Jersey. OMARA is Read More »
Albany, New York —United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today that a federal grand jury in the Northern District of New York, in Albany, returned a two-count indictment charging KENITA HOKE, 44, of Troy, New York, with bank fraud (Count 1) and forging an endorsement on a United States Treasury check (Count 2).1 If Read More »
Gerald Cathie, 50, of Sicklerville, NJ, was charged today by information for his role in a bank fraud scheme, that resulted in losses of over $3 million, by submitting loan applications with false documentation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Cathie was charged with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, bank fraud, bribery Read More »
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Former R.I. attorney James D. Levitt, 66, pled guilty in federal court in Providence today to three counts of bank fraud and two counts of filing false tax returns for his role in a million dollar mortgage fraud scheme. Levitt faces up to 96 years in federal prison and a fine of Read More »
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