A well-known Palm Beach art dealer whose Worth Avenue gallery was raided by at least a dozen federal agents in December has been indicted on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering in connection with an alleged scheme to sell forged high-end artwork....
Mail fraud is one of the most serious federal offenses across the country. It can be jarring for anyone to be charged with this crime. It’s important to know what mail fraud is and how it’s committed. What is mail fraud? Mail fraud is a federal offense that’s...
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…
A complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission charges Dragon-Click Corp, its president Isaac Grossman, his wife Adriana Grossman, and her unregistered investment adviser Dragon Management, LLC with an ongoing fraudulent offering of Dragon-Click stock and membership interests in Dragon Partners, LLC. The SEC’s complaint alleges that from September 2014 through June 2018, Dragon-Click and Isaac Grossman raised more…
Michael R. Casey, 71, a fugitive for over four years, wanted on federal charges related to an alleged $20 million investment fraud scheme, had his initial appearance yesterday before United States Magistrate Judge Lauren F. Louis in the Southern District of Florida, Miami division. Casey was captured in Mexico and was extradited to Miami after appearing before a federal judge…
Two investment advisers were sentenced to federal prison for scamming clients out of $2.7 million and for lying to the Internal Revenue Service. Shawn O’Sullivan, 60, and Finnish native Heidi Wivolin, 49, were business partners in the Firstrust and Finntrust Investments. Their office was located on South Ocean Boulevard in Manalapan. Instead of investing money given to them by their…
According to information disclosed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District (Miami Division), Michael Mazar was employed as a BOP correctional officer at the Federal Detention Center in Miami from July 2009 through April 2017. In February 2017, Mazar provided an inmate with several cell phones, which the inmate used to pretend he was an employee of various…
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…