Tom Ryder, of Henniker, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud relating to a scheme to defraud lenders by acquiring real estate through straw purchasers using false and fictitious information.
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Gerald Koch, of Brackney, Pennsylvania, pled guilty in Binghamton, New York to persuading, inducing, and enticing a 15-year-old to engage in sexual activity.
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Two former correction union officials were busted Wednesday for submitting a bogus life insurance claim, prosecutors charged.
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Trevor Gilson Cook, of Apple Valley, Minnesota, was charged with one count of mail fraud and one count of tax evasion in connection with his execution of a scheme that defrauded no fewer than 1,000 people out of at least $190 million by purportedly selling investments in a foreign currency trading program.
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Ethan Jason Love, of Portsmouth, Virginia, pled guilty to mail fraud charges in connection with a false insurance claim, which he made while he was a Norfolk police officer.
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A Manhattan pharmacist is in hot water for keeping no records for 20,000 doses of heavy-duty painkillers – which he said were robbed, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Melanie McDonald, of Thetford, Vermont, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzling approximately $180,000 from two of her former employers.
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Alan Collins, of Wright City, Missouri, pled guilty to multiple charges of production of child pornography.
Heavily-armed cops and soldiers patrolled the city’s subway system during an anti-terror drill Wednesday morning, reassuring commuters rattled by the Moscow suicide attacks.
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Victor Lee Kemble, of Tonkawa, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 77 months in federal prison for stabbing a fellow member of the Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma several times with a knife, resulting in serious bodily injury to the victim.
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