Former West Virginia assessor sentenced to prison for embezzlement

MARSHALL COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) – Former Marshall County Assessor Eric Buzzard was sentenced in Marshall County circuit court ...

Owner of Nashville's Plaza Mariachi sentenced to prison for fraud

Mark Janbakhsh, the owner of Nashville's Plaza Mariachi, was convicted of participating in a $24 million bank fraud scheme.

4 Hawaii fraud criminals sentenced to federal prison

The U.S. Department of Justice said the four filed fraudulent returns claiming false withholdings from mortgage lenders from ...
USA Today

Ex-Chatfield aides sentenced, will testify against former Speaker

LANSING — An Ingham County judge accepted plea agreements for a pair of former aides to ex-Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield, setting the stage for the staffers to testify against their former boss ...

Mass. woman gets time in federal prison for embezzling more than $400K from employer

The former office manager for a Franklin environmental services business has been sentenced to federal prison for embezzling ...

Sentencing delayed for ex-county treasurer guilty of embezzling almost $40M

Elizabeth Gutfahr, former Santa Cruz County treasurer, pleaded guilty in November to embezzling $38.7 million from 2014 to 2024 from the Arizona county.
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Recalibrating Economic Crime Sentencing: The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Proposed Reforms to Section 2B1.1 and What They Mean for the Defense Bar

Federal sentencing for fraud and theft offenses has long been dominated by a single metric: monetary loss. Section 2B1.1 of ...