A former board member of a revered Palm Beach charity was sentenced on Friday for embezzling at least $2 million from its pension fund in a carefully orchestrated scheme that spanned 25 years. 69-year-old William Minor pleaded guilty in September to one count of mail fraud in connection with the massive theft that all but bankrupted the pension fund for…
Matthias Krull, a German national and resident of Panama, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in the Southern District of Florida (Miami Division) to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. He will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga on Oct. 29. The 44-year-old man, who was employed at a Swiss bank where he was a…
Although the nation-wide trend is showing a decline in federal white collar criminal cases, the number of cases in the Southern District of Florida over the last 20 years has drastically increased. So far in FY 2018, the Southern District of Florida (Miami Division) is ranked as the second most active federal district in the country for white collar prosecutions…