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Three members of a Tampa Bay-area family have been indicted by a federal grand jury on Medicare fraud charges. The indictment alleges that Ben, Gregory and Tracey Bane used their businesses to defraud Medicare out of over $5 million. Federal... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: White Collar CrimesThe Tampa Bay area isn’t the only part of Florida seeing an explosion in the number of mortgage fraud cases filed. Since September 2007, when federal and state authorities launched a mortgage fraud intiative in South Florida, 218 people have... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: White Collar CrimesAccording to the latest statistics released by local law enforcement, Manatee County has the highest murder rate per capita in the Tampa Bay area with 22 murders so far in 2009. Manatee County only had 22 murders over the course... [Read More]
Yesterday, in a courtroom about 55 miles east of Bradenton, prosecutors and defense attorneys worked together – with the support of the defendant and the victims’ family – to resolve a 2001 vehicular manslaughter case. The cooperation between the sides... [Read More]
Former Hillsborough County Circuit and 2nd District Court of Appeal Judge Thomas E. Stringer agreed yesterday to plead guilty to federal bank fraud for his action in helping a young stripper hide financial assets. Stringer retired just this past February... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: White Collar CrimesAs expected, Tampa Bay area mortgage fraud prosecutions continue to accumulate in federal court. Last week, a St. Petersburg mortgage company employee agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit mortgage fraud. Randy Griffin admitted to conspiracy to commit mail... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: White Collar CrimesTroy Sierra of St. Petersburg was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend in 2007. A jury convicted Sierra of first-degree murder for the shooting death of Kelly Burgess. The trial lasted three days. In the... [Read More]
For over 20 months, Naushad Shahabuddin exchanged food stamps for cash at the Clearwater Quick Check Food Mart. Shahabuddin gave customers cash for less than the face value of the food stamps and then kept the difference for himself. He... [Read More]
Unsurprisingly, an Orange County judge canceled the October trial date for the Casey Anthony capital murder case. No new trial date was set although a status hearing is now scheduled for January 10, 2010. (A change of venue motion filed... [Read More]
Back in April, we posted about a St. Petersburg food stamp fraud case being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Tampa. The defendant Anton Goubrial pleaded guilty to two felonies as part of a plea agreement with the prosecutors... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: White Collar Crimes
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