Larry and Barbara Cook are risking public embarrassment to spare others from a similar trauma. In the process, they’re helping to rewrite federal and state income tax laws related to fraud losses.
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Elderly couple in Gray recovers $19,500 from online fraud
Scammers convinced the couple they needed to return money that was supposedly deposited into their account by accident, police said.
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Maine man accused of faking own death after defrauding VA of over $240K
Washington County resident Gregory Heimann, 51, was arrested in Missouri over a year after he disappeared, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
New Jersey man charged with swindling nearly $200,000 from local man in investment scam
The victim told police that his cash — $110,000 at first meeting and then another $50,000 at a later date — was inside a Walmart bag when he handed it over to the suspect.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, River Valley
Rumford man sentenced on fraud, theft charges
RUMFORD — Raymond Brenneis was sentenced Monday to three years of probation for Social Security fraud and theft of public money. Brenneis, 59, of Rumford was also ordered to pay $51,289 in restitution to the Social Security Administration and $2,376 in restitution to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. According to the U.S. […]
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Health care fraud trial to start next month
PORTLAND — Two Twin Cities men and a Winthrop woman accused in federal court of health care welfare fraud are scheduled for a January trial. A federal grand jury last month handed up a 27-count indictment charging Garat Osman, 32, and Abdirashid Ahmed, 38, both of Lewiston, and Nancy Ludwig, 65, of Winthrop with felonies […]
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Lawsuit claims investment fraud
Two women are claiming a local law firm schemed with a former Portland developer to defraud investors of nearly $50 million. Their class-action lawsuit filed this week in federal court cites another ongoing lawsuit against businessman Michael Liberty. Rather than target Liberty himself, it goes after Portland attorney George Marcus and his firm, Marcus Clegg. […]
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Jury to hear closing arguments in Paul Manafort fraud trial
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Closing arguments were expected Wednesday in the trial of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman accused of tax evasion and bank fraud. Manafort’s defense rested its case Tuesday without calling any witnesses. Manafort himself chose not to testify. It’s the first trial to emerge from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, […]
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CEO whose company is buying Saddleback accused of fraud
RANGELEY (AP) — The Australian developer who’s buying Maine’s Saddleback Mountain ski resort has been arrested after a raid on his offices in his home country. Australian news media report that Sebastian Monsour was charged Thursday with investment fraud after a search warrant was executed. Monsour is CEO of the Majella Group, which is in […]
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Westbrook man sentenced to two years in halal market fraud
A man found guilty of abusing food stamp programs at a local market was sentenced to two years in prison Monday. Abdulkareem Daham, 22, of Westbrook was convicted in January of conspiracy to defraud the federal government by allowing recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants […]