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Klaus Zumwinkel
Zumwinkel is the highest profile character to come out of the Lichtenstein tax evasion investigations so far. He is the former head of Deutsch Post, which runs the German postal service. He is being charged with evading up to $1.5M in taxes off profits Lichtenstein...
Josh Nochimson
Richard Hamilton of the Detroit Pistons has accused his former business manager of stealing up to $500,000. The players union is doing initial investigations but says that it could be turned over to legal authorities soon. Nochimson has also represented Luol...
Emmanuel Constant
Mr. Constant has been sentenced to up to 37 years for his role in a mortgage fraud. Fleecing Central first brought the story of this ex-military leader (who has been accused of murder and torture in Haiti) earlier this year. That story can be read in the post from...
Lance K. Poulsen
Lance K. Poulsen of National Century Financial Enterprises was convicted of 20 counts of securities fraud and money laundering in a $1.9B fraud case. He faces up to 135 years in prison on top of the 10 that he was convicted of in March for trying to bribing a witness....
F.B.I. Struggles to Handle Financial Fraud Cases
The NYtimes article was written by: ERIC LICHTBLAU, DAVID JOHNSTON and RON NIXON Published: October 18, 2008 Here is an interesting article about the FBI's inability to devote proper attention to fleecing.Full Article
Michael and Angela Smallman
Michael Smallman and his wife Angela were found guilty in a 16Million British Pound fraud. Michael was convicted of fraudulent trading while Angela was convicted of money laundering in a case where 80,000 college students believed that they were attending an...
Parmalat
A New Jersey jury found that Parmalat, the Italian food and dairy company, had defrauded CitiGroup and awarded the bank $364.2 million in damages write Eric Dash of NYtimes.com. You can read the rest of his article at nytimes.com
Jocelyn Kirsch and Edward Anderton
"Kirsch, 23, and Anderton acknowledged stealing the identities of up to 16 friends and neighbors in the Philadelphia area in 2006 and 2007 to net more than $116,000 in goods and services." reports abc news. The two apparently used the proceeds to fund exotic...