Indiana native Jonathan Larmore, whose real estate company held numerous shopping centers in central Indiana, was arrested Thursday on fraud charges related to an alleged $77 million scheme to inflate WeWork Inc.’s stock price.
A former employee at a Greenfield repair shop is accused of stealing the funds from the business between 2016 and 2022. Now, she’s been indicted on five counts of wire fraud as a result.
Brian Simms, who operated Brendanwood Financial Brokerage LLC in Carmel, avoided trial by reaching a plea agreement in what prosecutors said was a fraud scheme involving at least 20 victims.
Investigators say Tuong Quoc Ho devised and led a complex, international scheme from 2013 to 2020 to defraud multiple victims in the United States and abroad of about $2 million.
The operators of the now-closed schools allegedly inflated the enrollment by thousands of students and accepted more than $44 million in state funding, per a federal indictment from last week.
Officers Jonathan Horlock and Nathaniel Schauwecker had been charged with battery and official misconduct in the case.
“Using new technology to break the law does not make you a disruptor, it makes you a criminal,” said U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who called the settlement one of the largest corporate penalties in the nation’s history.
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.
