Crime Scene Archive: Cons & Scams
Guilty plea in Arlington voter fraud case
Christy Goodman reports in the Virginia Politics blog that William Cockerham pleaded guilty to voter fraud Wednesday in Arlington Circuit court.
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Washington Post Editors
| February 17, 2011; 5:32 PM ET |
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Arlington, Cons & Scams, Politics
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Fishmongers mislabeled, sold illegal seafood
Two Arizona fishmongers pleaded guilty in federal court this week to illegally selling imported fish laced with banned antibiotics, improperly inflating the quality and size of fish and shrimp, and falsely claiming that foreign farm-raised shrimp was actually U.S. wild-caught...
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Allison Klein
| January 25, 2011; 10:05 AM ET |
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Allison Klein, Around the Nation, Cons & Scams, From the Courthouse
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Trial for accused cancer scammer
A woman has been ordered to stand trial in Baltimore County on charges she got $10,000 from former Ravens player Mike Flynn by fraudulently claiming she's dying of cancer. Prosecutors say Lisa Hoppenstein Cohen told friends and acquaintances she had...
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The Baltimore Sun
| January 13, 2011; 7:55 AM ET |
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Clinton, Md., counterfeiter sentenced
Rontrail Jamar Williams, 35, of Clinton was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud for running a multi-state counterfeiting operation that produced checks and driver's licenses, federal prosecutors said. For the past six years,...
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Mary Pat Flaherty
| January 7, 2011; 1:12 PM ET |
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Phone scam targets grandparents
The phone rings. When the elderly woman answers, a panicked caller on the other end claims to be a grandchild or another relative in urgent need of help. There's been an accident, or an arrest, or a hospital visit. They...
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Josh White
| December 17, 2010; 8:01 AM ET |
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Around the Nation, Cons & Scams, Financial Crimes, Identity Theft, Josh White
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D.C. FD employee faces theft charges
CPR training is a skill that is always in demand. Prosecutors allege that D.C. Fire Department employee Natalie Overton-Williams used that demand to take money from nonprofit groups that should have gone to the District government. Overton-Williams, 41, of Southeast,...
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Theola Labbe'-DeBose
| December 16, 2010; 6:25 PM ET |
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Cons & Scams, Fires & Fire Safety, The District, Theola Labbé-DeBose
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