sfgate.com | 2/8/10 | suspect: Frederick Scott Salyer
An investigation into one the nation's biggest tomato processors culminated with the arrest of the firm's former owner, a Pebble Beach man accused of selling moldy paste and bribing purchasers at client companies including Safeway and Kraft Foods.
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newark.fbi.gov | 2/8/10 | $1 million | suspect: Russell D'Anton
The former president and CEO of the Charlie Brown’s chain of restaurants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the company by accepting kickback payments totaling more than $1 million in exchange for awarding contracts to certain vendors.
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presstelegram.com | suspect: 2/8/10 | suspect: Lajetta Wright
A Long Beach attorney who pleaded guilty last year to embezzling more than $26,000 from a nonprofit group was sentenced to one year of probation.
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reuters.com | 2/8/10 | suspect: Alberto Vilar
Alberto Vilar, a New York money manager convicted of fraud in 2008 after riding the dot.com tech stock boom and donating tens of millions of dollars to the arts, education and hospitals, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday.
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news.yahoo.com | 2/3/10 |
A man regulators call "the Octopussy" and six other white-collar defendants pleaded not guilty Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan to securities fraud charges in an insider trading case that has shaken Wall Street.
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mercurynews.com | 2/2/10 |$900,000 | suspect: Kathryn Britto-Florence
An ex-con on probation for embezzlement was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of stealing more than $900,000 from her most-recent employer, police said.
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latimes.com | 2/1/10 | $46 million | suspect: Lila Rizk
A former Beverly Hills real estate appraiser was sentenced to three years in federal prison Friday for her role in a multimillion-dollar real estate fraud ring.
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newhaven.fbi.gov | 2/2/2010 | $6.2 million | suspect: suspect Susan Curtis and Gary Stocking
SUSAN A. CURTIS, 48, her husband GARY J. STOCKING, 43, both of Naugatuck, and CURTIS’ former husband, KEVIN W. CAFFREY, 45, of Wolcott, with one count of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud against Webster Bank of nearly $6.2 million.
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dallasnews.com | 1/28/10 | $350,000 | suspect: Barbara Nestel
A former longtime Boy Scouts of America employee will soon begin serving a two-year federal prison sentence for bilking the Irving-based organization out of more than $350,000.
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detroit.fbi.gov | 1/28/10 | $640,000 | suspect: Debra Boynton
Debra Boynton, 44, of Troy, Michigan, was sentenced to 33 months in prison and ordered to pay $641,474.24 in restitution on charges that she misapproriated funds designated for charitable organizations.
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