A former pastor is going on trial for what authorities call a multimillion-dollar scheme that preyed on thousands of parishioners who thought they were helping build churches but were actually buying the man and his sons planes and sports cars.
As IBJ reported last year, Houston-based American General Life Insurance Company is attempting to invalidate a $15
million policy it issued in January 2006 insuring the life of Germaine “Suzy” Tomlinson—Conseco Inc. co-founder
Stephen Hilbert’s mother-in-law—who died Sept. 28, 2008, at age 74.
A former attorney who pleaded guilty to mail fraud has been sentenced to three years probation for submitting inflated bids
on foreclosed homes to the company for which he worked and pocketing the difference.
Robert E. Nelms received an eight-year sentence that will be served through a community corrections program after pleading
guilty to theft and securities fraud.
A judge on Wednesday afternoon sentenced Christopher P. White to one year on home detention and three years of probation in
connection with a $500,000 bad check he wrote last year as he tried to save his real estate development firm, Premier Properties
USA Inc.
Charter Homes owner Jerry J. Jaquess has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of
$825,000 for his role in a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme.
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.
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.
U.S. District Court Judge Larry J. McKinney is threatening to suspend counsel for Duke Energy, including its local attorneys,
from practicing in federal court after finding they misled Indianapolis jurors last May in a trial over air-pollution violations.
