By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former IRS revenue officer pleaded guilty Wednesday in Greenbelt, Md., to taking payoffs from a tax preparer to access inside information about clients, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Mark E. Hunt, 45, of Baltimore admitted unlawfully accessing 12 taxpayer accounts at the IRS, authorities said. According to Hunt’s guilty plea,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Vincent H. Cohen Jr. has left private practice to return to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington as the number two person, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced Monday. Cohen, 39, a partner in the D.C. law firm Schertler & Onorato, served as an assistant U.S. Attorney from…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The feds on Friday said 94 people were charged in schemes to collect more than $251 million in Medicare claims, calling it the largest health care fraud takedown since the Medicare Fraud Strike Force was created in 2007. Federal authorities alleged that the suspected cheats took part in schemes…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The drama and embarrassment in the Motown continues Tuesday when ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick — once dubbed the “Hip Hop Mayor” — steps into a downtown federal courtroom to face arraignment on 19 felony fraud and income tax counts, the Detroit News reports. Kilpatrick is already in prison. He served 99…
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com A New York pastor with a religious cable television show pleaded guilty Wednesday in Manhattan federal court to bilking investors out of $3 million in a jewelry fraud scheme. Samuel Solanky, 63, whose Asian Indian Christian cable show “Vandana” was broadcast in the New York Metropolitan area and elsewhere around the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Nashville FBI agent, who is married to a Christian gospel singer, has been indicted on host of fraud charges, including allegations he defrauded the SunTrust Mortgage Company to buy $1.25 million in rental properties in 2006, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville announced. Additionally, the 19-count indictment issued Wednesday charged…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has opened a preliminary investigation into Goldman Sachs, the poster child for greed in America. The New York Times, citing “people familiar with the matter’, said the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has filed a civil fraud suit against the financial giant, Goldman, referred the case…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Fraudulent crime on the Internet doubled in dollar value in 2009 compared to the year before, according to a report by the Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center. The report released Friday by the FBI showed that the total loss…
