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Tags: white-collar crime | fraud
Tags: Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Home | white-collar crime | Melody Shepherd
A U.S. Army veteran who faked severe vision impairment in order to rake in almost a million dollars worth of disability benefits over 30 years pleaded guilty Monday to defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer announced. Read Story »
Tags: military veterans | white-collar crime | fraud
A former Henderson County social services caseworker was charged last week with stealing more than $80,000 by switching Medicaid assistance payments to her own bank account when a family became ineligible for the cash, according to arrest warrants. Read Story »
Tags: white-collar crime
A federal grand jury indictment accuses a 69-year-old Asheville man of operating a $13.7 million Ponzi scheme based on his promises that a company called Oodles was about to cash in on family entertainment shows and movies worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, announced Thursday. Read Story »
Tags: white-collar crime
An Asheville orthodontist who stopped paying income taxes in 1996 was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $2.2 million to the IRS, U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced. Read Story »
Tags: taxes | white-collar crime
A gravestone company owner was charged with 24 counts of fraud after the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office investigated complaints that he sold monuments and never delivered them. Read Story »
Tags: cemeteries | white-collar crime
In addition to efforts by the area’s largest charity to find out what’s happening with the Opportunity House, the state attorney general is also looking into the agency that once provided a robust buffet of services for seniors and is now struggling financially. Read Story »
Tags: non-profit organizations | Opportunity House | white-collar crime | Ken Rhoads | Jackie Roberts
Tags: East Henderson High School | white-collar crime | Joe Johnson
Tags: white-collar crime | U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose