Former Tampa Bay area attorney Lawrence Hartman was deported by Nicaraguan authorities deported last week and sent back to Florida where he faces fraud charges in Tampa’s federal court. He is accused of participating in a $137 million fraud and... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hillsborough County, Tampa
Criminal Charges: White Collar CrimesPatrick Jay Banks, the founder of a St. Petersburg halfway house, was arrested last week on charges of defrauding investors and a federal substance abuse treatment program out of as much as $50,000. Police allege Banks cooked up an elaborate scheme... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Pinellas County, St. Petersburg
Criminal Charges: White Collar CrimesAfter three weeks of trial, testimony continues in a Tampa federal courtroom in the Medicaid fraud trial of four former WellCare executives. Former executives at the Tampa-based health care plan company, Todd Farha, Paul Behrens, William Kale and Peter Clay... [Read More]
A federal district court judge in Tampa sentenced Russell B. Simmons, Jr. to 15 years in federal prison this week, almost the maximum sentence under federal guidelines. Simmons was accused of tax fraud which netted him almost $2 million. Simmons... [Read More]
A Sarasota man was sentenced to five years in federal prison this month for his role in a complicated mortgage fraud scheme. Arthur R. Seaborne had previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud. In addition to the prison... [Read More]
Federal prosecutors report that Jessy Paliyath Peter of Lakeland pleaded guilty this month to theft of government funds and making a false statement to obtain federal employee’s compensation. At the root of the case is a fraudulent workers’ compensation application... [Read More]
Unsurprisingly, a grand jury returned a fifty-seven-count indictment this month charging Rashia Wilson of Wimauma and Maurice Larry of Tampa with conspiracy and multiple counts of wire fraud, filing false tax returns, theft of government property, and aggravated identity theft... [Read More]
Bruno Skoczynski, a 36-year-old mortgage broker from Dunedin, was sentenced this month by a Tampa federal court to two years in prison. Skoczynski owned E-Value Mortgage Services and E-Value Title Services. He pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud conspiracy charges in... [Read More]
Locations: Dunedin, Florida, Pinellas County
Criminal Charges: White Collar CrimesShaneva Boyd of Clearwater was sentenced earlier this month to 12 months and 1 day in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for participating in a conspiracy to commit federal student financial aid fraud. The federal court... [Read More]
Locations: Clearwater, Florida, Pinellas County
Criminal Charges: White Collar CrimesLocal media reported another round of tax refund fraud charges in the Tampa Bay area recently. Federal prosecutors now claim that several former Hillsborough County high school football players participated in the scheme and even recruited students at the University... [Read More]
Luke Frazier, a candidate for Hernando County sheriff back in 2008, was arrested and charged with fraud and perjury this week. Authorities say that Frazier forged a deed on a vacant two-bedroom house in Spring Hill in 2007. They also... [Read More]
The U.S. government unsealed a 39-count indictment last week, charging two Tampa men in a tax fraud scheme that allegedly netted them millions of dollars. Authorities arrested Marterrence Holloway and Maurice Larry and charged the two with conspiracy to defraud... [Read More]
According to law enforcement in Sarasota, four local men were charged last week with scheming to defraud in an alleged scheme to use trashed store receipts to make fraudulent refund requests. Brandie Horsley, Thomas Harrison, David Walshaw, and James Buck... [Read More]
Dean Counce pleaded guilty this month in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Counce was accused of submitting fraudulent inspection reports to lenders handling foreclosed properties. Around 2007, Counce founded a company in Brooksville called... [Read More]
A federal jury sitting in Tampa this month found Galal Ramadan guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and fourteen counts of mail fraud. Ramadan, who lives in Tampa, faces a maximum penalty of twenty years in... [Read More]
Locations: Florida, Hillsborough County, Tampa
Criminal Charges: White Collar Crimes
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