Tag: Q1 2015
Stanley P. Phillips, Wire Fraud, Alabama 2018
Crime journalist’s grimy report: Stanley P. Phillips, a 48-year-old contractor from Dothan, Alabama, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for wire fraud after being convicted of swindling nearly $650,000 from military sub-contractor Day and Zimmerman, International (D&Z). The case, which unfolded in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, involved two fraudulent schemes. The U.S. District Judge…
Vory V. Copeland, Tax Refund Fraud Scheme, Florida 2010
MIAMI GARDENS, FL – Vory V. Copeland, 40, of Miramar, Florida, is staring down a potential 86-year prison sentence after a federal jury found him guilty yesterday of masterminding a brazen tax refund fraud scheme. The operation, which ran rampant from January to April 2010, involved the filing of over 150 fraudulent tax returns and…
Brian Charles Tolley, Government Contract Reimbursement Forgery, Florida 2007
GRIMY TIMES EXCLUSIVE: Brian Charles Tolley, 39, a former executive at Boca Raton’s PartsBase, Inc., has been indicted for an alleged scheme involving $1.6 million in fraudulent reimbursements from government contracts. Tolley, who held various positions within the company from 2001 to 2014, is accused of submitting forged military and government documents between 2007 and…
Michael Mendoza, Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud, Florida 2014
MIAMI, FL – Another cog in a massive healthcare fraud machine admitted guilt today, bringing a small measure of accountability to a $205 million scheme that bilked Medicare. Michael Mendoza, 45, of Miami, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman in the Southern District…
Porscha Kyles, Conspiracy to Possess Unauthorized Access Devices and Aggravated Identity Theft, Florida 2012
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – A Broward County court clerk has traded her badge for bars, sentenced to three years in federal prison for a brazen identity theft and tax fraud scheme. Porscha Kyles, 25, of Fort Lauderdale, received the sentence today after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess unauthorized access devices and aggravated identity theft.…
William Hernandez, Identity Theft Tax Fraud, Florida 2014
William Hernandez, a 29-year-old Miami resident, has pleaded guilty to participating in an identity theft tax fraud scheme that preyed on thousands of individuals’ personal identifying information. The scheme involved using stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns, with one instance alone seeking $18,744.00 in refunds. Hernandez, who faces up to ten years in prison…
Jason Vitulano Sentenced to 132 Months for Loan Modification Scheme…
BOCA RATON, FL – Jason Vitulano, the mastermind behind a fraudulent loan modification scheme that bilked homeowners out of millions, has been sentenced to 132 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra. The 39-year-old Boca Raton resident was also ordered to pay $5.9 million in restitution. According to the indictment, Vitulano and his…
Gloria Nereida Valle-Clas, Federal Embezzlement, Florida 2003
LOXAHATCHEE, FL – Gloria Nereida Valle-Clas, 49, and her husband, Alexander Gonzalez, 41, of Loxahatchee, are facing the consequences after a brazen decade-long scheme to fleece the federal government. The pair were sentenced today in West Palm Beach, a culmination of an investigation that exposed a sophisticated network of lies and stolen identities. Valle-Clas received…
James Odell McGriff, Sea Turtle Egg Smuggling, Florida 2014
Former Riviera Beach resident James Odell McGriff has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for his role in the illegal transport of endangered sea turtles. The 56-year-old was caught on August 15, 2014, digging into two turtle nests and removing 299 eggs from a protected species. Of those eggs, twelve were kept as evidence…
Marlan L. Copeland, Tax Refund Fraud, Florida 2010
MIAMI GARDENS, FL – A federal jury delivered a guilty verdict to Marlan L. Copeland, of Miramar, and Brannoc K. Rudd, of Miami Gardens, after a ten-day trial revealed their roles in a calculated tax refund fraud scheme. The pair systematically cashed over $100,000.00 in fraudulent tax refund checks, leaving a trail of forged signatures…
