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Mortgage banker sentenced for fraud, ordered to pay resitution

News Staff

Thursday, December 9, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY — The septuagenarian founder of a mortgage lending and loan servicing company was sentenced to eight and two-thirds years in prison for “a broad range of fraudulent conduct,” Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester announced. Ronald J.

Ringleader admits fraud in acquiring PPE, TP, tickets to OSU sports events

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer

Thursday, August 12, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – The leader of an alleged criminal ring comprised of five Canadians, an Angeleno and another individual, pleaded guilty in federal court here to a felony charge arising from an illicit scheme to acquire personal protective equipment and Oklahoma State University event tickets.

LEDGER PHOTO BY BRYAN M. RICHTER A page from the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission website is displayed on a laptop computer.

Unemployment fraud perhaps $500M

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer

Thursday, August 5, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – More than $5 billion in state and federal unemployment benefits have been paid out in Oklahoma in the last 17 months – and perhaps half a billion dollars of that was siphoned off by fraud, hacking and identity theft, federal auditors contend.

Mortgage exec indicted for multimillion-dollar fraud

News Staff

Thursday, April 1, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – A former mortgage company executive is fighting a 24-count federal indictment that charges him with defrauding two banks, the Federal National Mortgage Assn. (“Fannie Mae”), and others, in an elaborate scheme. Ronald J.

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2 Okla. men accused of coronavirus relief fraud

News Staff

Thursday, December 24, 2020

TULSA (AP) – Two men have been charged after being accused by authorities of fraudulently applying for small business loans intended for coronavirus relief in Oklahoma, according to federal prosecutors.

OKC law firm begins probe of Chinese coffee company

Staff Reports

Thursday, November 12, 2020

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City-based law firm Federman and Sherwood is conducting an investigation related to a securities lawsuit against the Chinese coffee company Luckin Coffee Inc., the law firm announced recently.

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District employees’ IDs stolen as part of mass fraud scheme

Michael Kinney

Thursday, July 2, 2020

LAWTON – Kevin Hime, the newly hired superintendent of Lawton Public Schools, arrived in December and hasn’t really had time to get to know his new surroundings due to the COVID-19 shutdowns. He spent the previous nine years as the superintendent of the Clinton School District.

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