Monsignor Is Charged In Sex Case
Monsignor Luque Is Charge With Molestation. Monsignor Peter Luque, a prominent Colton native who spent four decades ministering to Inland Catholics, was charged Tuesday with molesting two teenage boys in the 1960s. Luque, 69, a Colton resident, could not be reached for comment. The popular priest resigned last month as pastor of … [Read more...]
Priest Charged In Sex Abuse of Stokes As Teen
Rev. Blackwell Was Charged In Sex Abuse. The Rev. Maurice J. Blackwell was indicted yesterday on child sexual abuse charges, nearly a year after the Baltimore clergyman was thrust into the national spotlight for being shot by his alleged victim, a former parishioner whom he had baptized as a baby. The four-count indictment alleges … [Read more...]
LI Crane Operator Charged with Bribing an Inspector
Nu-Way Service Of Copiague Has Been Charged. One of the bosses at Long Island‘s Nu-Way Crane Service of Copiague has been charged with paying a New York City inspector more than $10,000 to falsify inspection reports and licenses, according to the Manhattan district attorney's office. Michael Sackaris, 48, of St. James, is the … [Read more...]
PBHG Founders Charged In Market Timing Case
PBHG Founders Were Charged Over Improper Trading. The founders of the Pilgrim-Baxter fund family were charged by state and federal regulators Thursday with improper trading of their funds to benefit themselves and friends at the expense of longer-term shareholders. The civil actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission and … [Read more...]
Ex-Pru Staffers Charged By SEC
SEC Filed Fraud Charges Against Ex-Pru Staffers. The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday filed civil fraud charges against five former brokers and a branch manager at Prudential Securities' Boston office for defrauding dozens of mutual funds and their shareholders. The SEC accuses the former brokers of "misrepresenting … [Read more...]
5th KPMG Partner Is Charged in Xerox Case
SEC Charged KPMG Over Xerox Case. The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed civil charges against another KPMG LLP partner, bringing to five the number of partners charged for their roles in auditing Xerox Corp. According to the agency, it amended its complaint against the firm Friday to add Thomas Yoho for his role in … [Read more...]
Ex-BofA Broker Charged; Inquiry Is Widening
Officials Filed Charges Against Ex-BofA Broker. New York and federal officials on Tuesday filed civil and criminal charges against a former Bank of America Corp. broker, the first charges in what they called a widening probe of the $6.9 trillion mutual fund industry. New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, joined at a Manhattan … [Read more...]
Two Employees Charged With Severely Beating Elderly Arkansas Woman
Nursing Home Employee Are Being Held on 100 Thousand Dollars Bond After Beating An Elder Woman. Two Arkansas nursing home employees are each being held on 100 thousand dollars' bond after being accused of beating an elderly woman with brass knuckles. The nursing assistants are each charged with a felony count of adult abuse. The … [Read more...]
Fastow, 7 Ex-Enron Execs Charged
Ex-Enron Execs Financial Scandals. Former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, his wife and seven other former executives have been charged in a superseding indictment for actions relating to the firm's financial scandals, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Fastow, who was indicted last year on 78 counts of wire … [Read more...]
Ex-CSFB Banker Charged
Ex-CSFB Banker Charged With Obstruction Of Justice. Frank Quattrone, a former senior executive at Credit Suisse First Boston, was charged yesterday with obstructing justice by ordering subordinates to destroy evidence sought by the Securities and Exchange Commission and a federal grand jury. Quattrone, 47, former head of CSFB's … [Read more...]
Former HealthSouth CFO Charged With Conspiracy
Former HealthSouth CFO Was Charged. Another former HealthSouth chief financial officer was charged on Tuesday in the conspiracy to commit a $2.5bn fraud at the US healthcare company. Michael Martin, who served as CFO from 1997 to 2000, is expected to plead guilty this week to artificially inflating earnings and falsifying … [Read more...]
Two Tyco Executives Charged
Tyco Executives Charged With Fraud. Two Tyco International Ltd. executives have been charged with fraud in Mexico for their handling of the company's ADT security-alarm operations there. Warrants were issued March 6 for Phillip McVey, president of Tyco Fire & Security Latin America, and Patricio Gonzalez, head of ADT's Mexican … [Read more...]
Merrill Lynch Bankers Charged In Enron Fraud
Four former high-ranking Merrill Lynch bankers were on Monday charged with helping Enron commit securities fraud, marking the first time that US regulators have brought charges against individual bankers for assisting the failed energy company. The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday that Thomas Davis, a former … [Read more...]
Nursing Home Official Charged
Nursing Home Official In Colfax Has Been Charged. The administrator of Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Colfax has been charged with failing to report an abuse allegation, triggering an investigation by the state Department of Public Health. Susan L. Holifield, 50, of Bloomington, was released Friday after posting $100 bond on a … [Read more...]
Red Cross Charged Over Blood Bank Scandal
Investigation Of Blood Bank Scandal. Police have laid criminal charges against four doctors, the Canadian Red Cross Society and a United States pharmaceutical company after a five-year investigation into tainted blood. In one of the worst public health disasters in Canadian history, thousands of blood transfusion recipients … [Read more...]
Former Nurse Charged With Abuse
A Nurse Is Charged With Abuse. A former nurse is charged with abusing three senior citizens in a local nursing home. The allegations at the Claiborne and Hughes Health Center in Franklin surfaced in August. Since then, the former nurse has been fired and arrested on assault charges. Monday night, Gwendolyn Martin bonded out of … [Read more...]
Owner of Keystone Heights Nursing Home Charged In Patient’s Death
Nursing Home Charged With Abuse And Neglect. The owner and administrator of an assisted living facility in Keystone Heights has been charged with aggravated abuse or neglect in the death of an 88-year-old resident. Kathleen O. Wells was arrested Friday and charged in the death of Jessie Pauline Lockerman. Authorities said Wells … [Read more...]
Enron Finance Wiz Fastow Charged
Enron Finance Wizard Was Charged. Andrew Fastow, the financial wizard dubbed "Fast Andy" for his off-the-books finagling that led Enron Corp. into bankruptcy and disgrace, was charged Wednesday with fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. The highest-ranking former Enron executive to be charged in the collapse of the energy giant, … [Read more...]
Enron’s Ex-CFO Charged With Fraud
Enron's Ex-CFO Masterminded Schemes. Enron Corp.'s former chief financial officer, Andrew Fastow, who allegedly masterminded schemes to hide $1 billion in debt while reaping $30 million in shadowy profits for himself, yesterday became the highest-ranking Enron executive to face charges in the collapse of the energy-trading … [Read more...]
Enron Ex-Chief Financial Officer Charged
Enron Ex-Chief Was Charged With Defrauding. Andrew S. Fastow, Enron's former chief financial officer, was charged yesterday with defrauding investors and employees through a scheme that enriched himself and led to the energy giant's devastating fall. In a criminal complaint, federal authorities accused Fastow of setting up a … [Read more...]
