By Jason Thomas jthomas@scbiznews.com Durham, North Carolina attorney Tiffany Dawn Russell was sentenced to 63 months recently for her role in an extensive multi-year fraud conspiracy and was sentenced to 36 months for filing a false tax return. These sentences ...

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  There’s no getting out of a long-running battle between a South Carolina attorney and the businessmen he likened to TV mobster Tony Soprano. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit filed by the attorney, Paul ...

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An Iredell County jury has awarded the owner of a steel tubing manufacturer $2.1 million after his former business partner used the company’s money to buy stock shares that gave him ownership of half of the business and boost his ...

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By Evan H. Krinick BridgeTower Media Newswires Two truisms: 1) smart people do stupid things; and 2) if something seems to be too good to be true, then it is probably not real. The first truism occurs when people forget ...

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The Supreme Court is rejecting arguments made by Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was an appeals court judge in a case involving securities fraud. The court’s 6-2 ruling Wednesday affirms an appeals court decision against investment banker Francis Lorenzo over ...

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  The bankruptcy estates of a group of ambulance providers have settled a dispute with several former directors and officers and private equity sponsors whom the companies accused of maximizing value for themselves at the companies’ expense for $8.5 million, ...

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The district court found appellants guilty of marriage fraud in connection with a scheme whereby they obtained permanent resident status for Cameroonian nationals by arranging fraudulent marriages with American citizens. The court affirmed. Background Carine Kojia Aleah Ep Mbendeke and ...

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While North Carolinians survey the damage that Hurricane Florence wrought on homes and businesses across the region, there’s another storm they must brace for: the inevitable wave of fraud and identity theft that trails natural disasters.

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Even if the defendant-seller did not tell the plaintiff-buyer that his Nash County internet sweepstakes business had been served with written notice from law enforcement that the games being played on the machines in his business violated G.S. § 14-306.4 ...

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ASHEVILLE (AP) A former North Carolina town councilman has been convicted of falsely representing himself as a doctor so he could provide expert testimony in court. The Associated Press reports court officials said 66-year-old Milton LeRoy Byrd, a former Fletcher ...

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