Imperial Valley News Imperial Valley News Center California Man Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Falsely Claiming to Be an Attorney and Defrauding Couple Details Written by Imperial Valley News
Sacramento, California - Derek Bluford, 34, of Sacramento, was sentenced to seven years in prison for wire fraud, money laundering, obstruction of a federal investigation, and making false statements, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
According to court documents, Bluford told a couple that he was an attorney and could represent them in a dispute they were having with their tenant. After the couple agreed, Bluford then told them that they had incurred numerous fines and court costs, as well as costs to repair their rental unit; he also told them he had negotiated a settlement agreement with the couple’s former tenant. Based on these representations, the couple paid Bluford over $500,000. Bluford, in fact, was not an
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A Jersey Shore man was sent to federal prison for 19 months for dodging nearly $1 million in taxes at his Manhattan construction company.
Bilal Salaj, 55, of the Morganville section of Marlboro, will have to serve out nearly the entire term because there’s no parole in the federal prison system.
Salaj admitted in U.S. District Court in Manhattan last October that he avoided the payroll and personal income taxes for five years, in part, by putting the company in an associate’s name and paying workers under the table.
The cash came from $3.2 million in business checks that should’ve gone into the company account but instead were converted by the associate at check-cashing businesses in Manhattan, said Audrey Strauss, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Updated: 1:59 PM EDT Apr 22, 2021 WXII12.com Web Staff North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced a $13 million Medicaid fraud conviction Wednesday.Timothy Mark Harron, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and aggravated identity theft, according to the state.Click the video player above for headlines from WXII 12 News.Harron admitted to working with his wife, Latisha Harron, to defraud the North Carolina Medicaid program by billing the government for fake home health services and using the money for personal items.According to the courts, Latisha Harron already pleaded guilty to similar charges and is awaiting sentencing. She created and was operating Agape Healthcare Systems, Inc., which was an alleged Medicaid home health provider in Roanoke Rapids.By enrolling Agape as a Medicaid provider, she concealed her previous felony conviction for identity theft and co
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