A woman’s civil settlement with her former employer over embezzled funds doesn’t supersede a court’s order that she pay restitution in the ensuing criminal case, although the payment can be applied toward the money she owes, the North Carolina ...

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Although defendant’s employer’s bank provided two different employees with “key fob” security devices so that no single employee could issue checks, the employer gave both key fobs to defendant. Therefore, contrary to defendant’s argument, she was entrusted with the funds ...

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NEWTON (AP) A North Carolina grand jury has indicted a former candidate for sheriff whose ex-girlfriend accused him of putting a tracking device on her car. A Lincoln County grand jury returned the indictment against former Catawba County Sheriff’s Capt. Jason ...

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A disbarred Lincoln County lawyer has pleaded guilty to 11 counts of embezzlement and was sentenced to at least 12 years in prison, according to the county’s district attorney. Peter Capece, who was disbarred in May 2015, pleaded guilty on ...

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A disbarred lawyer who had offices in three major North Carolina cities has pleaded guilty to charges that he embezzled about $100,000 from clients. Devin Ferree Thomas, 47, of Charlotte entered the plea in Winston-Salem on July 3 to six ...

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Former Winston-Salem attorney Robert Keller Leonard, who was disbarred 10 years ago for mishandling a client’s money, has pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges after admitting he stole $300,000 from an elderly man who survived cancer and needs oxygen to live. ...

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Raymond James Capital Partners, L.P. v. Hayes (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-259-16, 14 pp.) (Ann Marie Calabria, J.) Appealed from Caldwell County Superior Court (Robert Ervin, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Where the plaintiff-shareholder alleges that the defendant-corporate officer breached her duties ...

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A judge has locked up a white-collar criminal with a history of stealing from the law firm hands that feed her. Felicia Kelley pleaded guilty on June 7 to embezzling more than $100,000 from Yow, Fox & Mannen in Wilmington ...

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Recent actions by the North Carolina Cemetery Commission are enough to make sensible business owners turn over in their graves. It turns out the nine-member commission, which regulates the 175 private cemeteries in the state, told a former administrative assistant ...

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LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) — A disbarred Lincoln County lawyer has been indicted on 11 counts of embezzlement. Local media report a grand jury indicted Peter Capece on Monday. Authorities say he is accused of taking $800,000 from a late client’s ...

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