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Former Indy-area financial planner to plead guilty in $4.7M fraud case
According to the plea agreement, Christopher Turean spent his wealthy client’s money on gambling and paying down a home equity loan.
According to the plea agreement, Christopher Turean spent his wealthy client’s money on gambling and paying down a home equity loan.
During her employment, Teresa Maners stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the foundation by taking cash before recording it in the foundation’s accounting systems.
Bankman-Fried’s spectacular rise and fall in the cryptocurrency industry hit rock bottom Thursday when a jury convicted him of fraud for stealing at least $10 billion from customers and investors.
ReJoyce Financial CEO Alexander Joyce, who is known locally for his financial planning infomercials, is serving time in Hamilton County Jail for a probation violation related to charges of driving while intoxicated. His firm is operating as usual in his absence, according to his attorney and and business associates.
According to the petition Courtney Anguiano knowingly conspired with seven other people to submit 189 false and fraudulent post-transaction reimbursement requests under three different Eli Lilly and Co. savings card programs.
U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer, a Noblesville resident, is due to report to prison on Nov. 28 to serve his sentence for insider trading.
Darrin Blaine was charged with six counts of securities violations, one count of money laundering and one count of corrupt business influence after being arrested in his home Thursday
Steve Buyer was convicted in connection with insider trading involving the $26.5 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, announced in April 2018, and illegal trades in the management consulting company Navigant.
More than 60 of the defendants have alleged connections to organized crime, the department said, including members of a criminal gang accused of using stolen pandemic aid to pay for a murder.
James Lancaster of Indianapolis stole more than 270 pieces of mail with checks from more than 50 different businesses between May 2020 and June 2021, the U.S. Justice Department said.
The four-count, 45-page indictment accuses former president Donald Trump of three distinct criminal schemes, charging that he conspired to defraud the U.S., conspired to obstruct an official proceeding and conspired against people’s rights.
Rep. Jim Lucas of Seymour said he accepts responsibility and is getting professional help.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office, through its Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, joined more than a dozen states and the federal government Wednesday in a nationwide enforcement action against 78 individuals charged with Medicaid fraud.
Steve Buyer, 64, of Noblesville is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11 for his March conviction by a jury on four securities fraud charges.
Former Indiana congressman Steve Buyer of Noblesville was convicted by a jury in Manhattan federal court in March of four securities fraud charges.
Rep. Jim Lucas signed an agreement with the prosecutor in Jackson County in which he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident.
Investigators said Bruce Ford stole about $1.2 million from at least 10 victims, including some who were already retired or were approaching retirement and suffered substantial financial hardship.
Investigators say the former controller of a Shelbyville company used her position to steal nearly $700,000 from her employer.
The charges remained under seal late Thursday, but the investigation centered on payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter.
The verdict against Steve Buyer, a Republican lawyer who served in Congress from 1993 to 2011, was returned after a jury heard evidence about stock purchases he made after he became a consultant and lobbyist.