A former used-car salesman was sentenced Monday to more than 18 years in federal prison for his role in a $2.2 million fraud involving hundreds of phony income tax returns.
Ronald Chisholm, 53, of Norfolk was convicted earlier this year in U.S. District Court of 19 felonies.
“Chisholm has no respect for anyone or anything,” U.S District Judge Robert Doumar said before handing down the sentence. “He’s an outright thief.”
The Tarrant County District Attorney in Fort Worth, Texas, has teamed up with the Texas Attorney General to make an arrest in a felony voter fraud case. The case involves a Mexican citizen who allegedly voted illegally in at least two Texas elections.
Rosa Maria Ortega has been charged in Tarrant County with two counts of illegal voting. The charge is a second degree felony in Texas.
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The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization, has rated Nevada as one of the worst states in “laws and systems … to deter corruption.”
German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt announced Wednesday that all current models sold under the VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat brands would be tested for carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions, affecting both diesel and petrol vehicles.
The move came after another Volkswagen unit, Porsche, halted sales of its Cayenne diesel sport utility vehicles following the new allegations from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The embattled company also admitted Tuesday it set carbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption figures too low when certifying about 800,000 vehicles.
Washington — A federal judge in New York will decide soon which shareholder to appoint in a class-action securities fraud suit lodged against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, its CEO Sergio Marchionne and chief financial officer Richard Palmer.
The suit was filed against the company in September after the automaker agreed to a $105 million settlement with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to settle charges it mishandled nearly two dozen recalls covering 11 million vehicles.
A veteran Philadelphia congressman’s son was found guilty Thursday of federal bank and tax fraud charges.
Chaka “Chip” Fattah Jr. was convicted of 22 of 23 counts alleging that he misspent loans and some of the nearly $1 million in education funds he got as a school management subcontractor. The jury acquitted him of one count of tax fraud.
Vatican investigators have accused the shadowy organisation known as the Pope’s merchant bank of money laundering,insider trading
and market manipulation, it has emerged.
Details of the alleged crimes committed by the institution, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See (APSA), said to have been between 2000 and 2011, have been passed to authorities in Italy and Switzerland. Investigators say the illicit activity involved bank accounts held in these countries.
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) Three people, including two from northwest Florida, have been sentenced as part of a plea agreement concerning fraud charges.
39-year-old Jermaine Winters of Coleman, Florida, 24-year-old Senora Cotton of Chipley, Florida, and 23-year-old Rosetta Presley also of Chipley were sentenced in federal court Monday for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft in connection with the electronic filing of false federal income tax returns.
According to a press release from the US Attorney’s Office, During their guilty pleas, Winters, Cotton, and Presley admitted that, between July 2011 and July 2012, they conspired to file fraudulent tax returns using the stolen identities of assisted-living facility residents who lived at the Dogwood Inn in Bonifay, Florida, as well as clinical laboratory patients from the Sun Laboratory Services in the Tampa, Florida area, and others.
Authorities arrested two people for credit card fraud in Lemon Grove last week.
Lasaro Quijano, 30, and Bunthi Im, 29, were arrested after officers found numerous fraudulent credit and ID cards, meth and other drugs and a stolen handgun. A search of the couple’s vehicle revealed credit card making materials and items purchased with the fraudulent cards.