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Convicted financier says he can't afford a lawyer
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana financier and former chief executive of National Lampoon who was convicted of swindling investors out of about $200 million says he can't afford to hire an attorney to handle his appeal. In federal court documents...
Tags: Mitch Daniels, Justice System, Financially Distressed Companies, Bankruptcy, Corporate Crime
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Indiana financier balks at possible 225-year sentence
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An attorney for an Indianapolis financier convicted of swindling some $200 million from investors as his business fell apart claims the government caused the company's collapse by ruining its reputation. The claims were included...
Tags: Mitch Daniels, Justice System, Bankruptcy, Punishment, Corporate Crime
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Indiana sues mortgage aid companies
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- You want to modify your home loan to stop foreclosure and a company offers to help for an upfront fee. You pay the fee. And your home winds up in foreclosure while the company that took your money disappears. On Wednesday, five out-of-...Tags: Consumers, Justice System, Corporate Crime, Loans, Economy, Business and Finance
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Indiana to receive $3.3M in drug wholesaler settlement
Indiana and 28 other states have reached a $175 million settlement in a lawsuit accusing one of the country's largest drug wholesalers of overcharging Medicaid for prescription drugs, costing the states' Medicaid programs millions in overpayments....
Tags: Government Health Care, Justice System, Corporate Crime, Chemical Industry, Economy, Business and Finance
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Police: TCU victim of organized check fraud scam
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND — Police said they believe 11 check fraud cases involving Teach-ers Credit Union at the end of last year may have been part of an organized scam including several people. The incidents were re-ported to the South Bend Police Department...Tags: Corporate Crime, Corporate Crime
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Woman could get 45 years in plot to kill boyfriend
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A 20-year-old Indiana woman faces up to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges she plotted with two other people to beat her boyfriend to death and hide his body in a shallow grave.
Carolann Clear pleaded...Tags: Prisons, Murder, Punishment, Corporate Crime, Trials
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Indiana tea partiers challenge Lugar residency
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Richard Lugar's tea party challenger stood Wednesday morning outside the Indianapolis home the U.S. senator sold decades ago to make the case his opponent no longer has much to do with the state he represents.
State...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Democratic Party, Mitch Daniels, Rentals
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Lugar's residency challenged by Mourdock challenger, others
Associated PressINDIANAPOLIS -- Republican Richard Lugar's tea party challenger stood Wednesday morning outside the Indianapolis home the U.S. senator sold decades ago to make the case his opponent no longer has much to do with the state he represents. State Treasurer...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Democratic Party, Mitch Daniels, Rentals
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South Bend man pleads guilty to fraud
A 56-year-old South Bend man has pleaded guilty to unemployment insurance fraud in St. Joseph Circuit Court in Mishawaka.
According to a release from the Department of Workforce Development, James L. Sheets purposefully defrauded the system by not...Tags: Punishment, Insurance, Corporate Crime, Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment
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Elkhart man's scheme to aid illegal aliens gains him prison time
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterA local man's role in a scheme to help more than 100 illegal aliens fraudulently obtain vehicle registrations resulted in a 33-month federal prison sentence pronounced last week in U.S. District Court in South Bend. Paulino Ascencion-Apolino, 23, was...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Prisons, Interior Policy, Corporate Crime, Punishment
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Dems want their candidate as Indiana elections chief
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — While Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels held off Saturday on appointing a permanent replacement for the state elections chief convicted early that morning of voter fraud, Democrats said they planned to move quickly to wrest control...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Democratic Party, Justice System, Mitch Daniels
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Illinois man in erectile pump fraud case asks for leniency
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An Illinois man facing sentencing in Rhode Island for shipping unwanted penis enlargers to diabetes patients as part of a Medicare fraud scheme is asking for a maximum prison term of 1 1/2 years. Lawyers for 49-year-old Gary...Tags: Wheeling, Justice System, Prisons, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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