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Feds: Woman indicted in Indianapolis was high-class grifter

Authorities say socialite Dina Wein Reis’ success was the result of an elaborate scam in which she tricked large corporations—including
Indianapolis-based Roche Diagnostics Corp.—into selling her millions of dollars worth of goods at a fraction of the
regular price for use in nonexistent promotions. She then resold the products at a hefty profit.

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Hall-Render co-founder returns to law firm

A co-founder of Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC is returning to the downtown law firm more than a decade after
he left it. Rex Killian will lead the firm’s governance consulting practice, which serves both not-for-profit
and for-profit health care clients.

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ISTA insurance fund sues ex-officials

The Indiana state teachers union’s insurance fund has filed a lawsuit alleging former officials, financial advisers and consultants
mismanaged a long-term disability insurance trust.

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Locals settle First Indiana insider-trading case

The Securities and Exchange Commission said today that it has settled insider-trading charges against three local residents
who bought shares in First Indiana Corp. immediately before the July 9, 2007, announcement that it was being acquired by a
Milwaukee bank for a 42-percent premium.

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Developer’s fraud trial enters second day

Marion County prosecutors this morning began making their case that Christopher P. White knowingly wrote a bad check for $500,000
last year in a desperate attempt to save his Indianapolis-based development firm, Premier Properties USA Inc.

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BREAKING: Jury finds Premier’s White guilty

A Marion County jury this evening found Christopher P. White guilty of three Class C felonies related to a $500,000 bad check
he wrote last year in a last-ditch attempt to save his locally based development firm, Premier Properties USA Inc.

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BREAKING: Schrenker sentenced to 51 months in prison

Indiana money manager Marcus Schrenker was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison today in Florida on charges that he deliberately
crashed his plane to fake his own death and flee financial ruin, according to the Pensacola News Journal.

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Dodson Group hit crisis mode after trusted CFO suspected of theft

At first, small-business owner Jim Dodson figured the problem must be a technical glitch. During a routine analysis of
aging unpaid invoices last September, one of his employees couldn’t tie the latest figures to the company’s ledger.
Accounts receivable for his company,
the Dodson Group, had been overstated by $2.7 million—double their true value. And $422,539 was missing from the firm’s
coffers.

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Marcus Schrenker gets prison sentence

The Indianapolis money manager who crashed his plane and parachuted to safety in an elaborate scheme
to fake his death and flee financial ruin, has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison.

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Schrenker faces nine more charges in Indiana

An Indiana money manager scheduled to be sentenced today in Florida on charges he deliberately crashed his plane to fake his
death and flee financial ruin now faces more charges in his home state.

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