The scene is becoming more common. A deal is done, the papers signed and the money is sent. Then comes the terrifying call: The person expecting the money never got it. With increasing frequency, the explanation is that a thief ...

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A federal judge has ordered a Richmond businessman to pay $25,000 in punitive damages and could add an award of attorneys’ fees in the fallout from a failed riverside residential development in Hopewell. U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney said ...

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NORFOLK (AP) A former investment adviser in Virginia has been sentenced for orchestrating an investment scheme that caused his clients to lose millions of dollars. 49-year-old Roger Odell Hudspeth II was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison May ...

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An employee accusing her former employer of Medicare fraud through misreporting of services provided didn’t provide sufficient detail, either of the fraudulent behavior itself or her alleged notice to the employer. Background Plaintiff Kimberly Branscome, a physical therapy assistant, brings ...

Tagged with: False Claims Fraud Health Care Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District Whistleblower

A Charlottesville-based investment adviser being sued for $6 million by a friend’s widow is now charged in Richmond federal court with three counts of fraud. The criminal information filed July 5 charges that Victor M. Dandridge III engaged in criminal ...

Tagged with: Fraud Lynne Kinder Trey Kinder III U.S. District Court - Eastern District Victor Dandridge III

A federal appeals court has refused to overturn Medicaid fraud convictions of a Virginia couple who operated a home healthcare business that spent years billing for services the company never provided. Wayne Perry Jr.’s Community Personal Care Inc. contracted with ...

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A three-member arbitration panel has rejected a dozen claims of fraud, self-dealing and other unethical conduct against an Alexandria attorney after a high-stakes family feud over years of complex financial transactions. The arbitrators decided in favor of lawyer Bruce W. ...

Tagged with: Ethics Fraud Judge Paul A. Sheridan Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr.

Plaintiff purchased a vehicle from the defendant dealership. The plaintiff alleged that during the negotiations for the vehicle, she explained her need for reliable and safe transportation for her family. She asked the salesman why the vehicle was being sold ...

Tagged with: Chesapeake Circuit Court Consumer Protection Fraud

A Stafford lawyer says he wants to sound the alarm about a sophisticated scam that almost cost him a six-figure loss. It’s a shakedown attempt that has been tried on law firms in Virginia and across the country, with occasional ...

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In 2011, a class action lawsuit was filed against Mountain State University on behalf of a Bachelor of Science in nursing student and other similarly situated nursing students and graduates, alleging that MSU failed to honestly and accurately represent the ...

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