Posts tagged Fraud

• Financial Wrongdoing: Are you a Ponzi victim?

  Steve Lombardi | November 17, 2009 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  If you think you may be a Ponzi victim, then ask yourself this question: Is this abnormal insecurity? In all of this security is there an overriding sense of insecurity? In college...

• Did Prime-Time Broward County Sheriff's Office Miss the Boat?

  Steve Lombardi | November 16, 2009 12:01 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Remember the post I wrote about the Police Women of Broward County? TLC Goes from Jon & Kate to, “There’s Always A Good Time to Use A Taser”, August 20, 2009 ...

• RRA Cast of Characters - Is Tony Villegas the Wrong Man? (UPDATED: 11/20/09)

  Steve Lombardi | November 14, 2009 8:25 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Have you ever wanted to be a lawyer or FBI investigator? With TV shows like Law & Order, LA Law, Castle and CSI’s being so popular there is probably a little criminal investigation in many...

• Did honesty get Florida lawyer, Melissa Lewis, killed? (Updated 11/19/09)

  Steve Lombardi | November 12, 2009 9:17 AM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Wrongful Death
  

  With recent developments surrounding the Law Firm of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler the answer to the question in the title just got 1,000 times more complex. “I read your post about Melissa...

• "Kill All The Lawyers!" Oops!, Who Maddoff with our 401K money?

  Steve Lombardi | November 10, 2009 10:01 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  With all the talk of tort reform one might begin to believe that attorneys really are the cause of climbing costs in healthcare along with every other economic ill special interests can blame them...

• Recession Yells "FORE!"

  Steve Lombardi | October 23, 2009 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  How do we know when the recession has officially hit home? How about when it hits the ultra exclusive country club in town Glenn Oaks? It’s being reported that West Bank will be taking over...

• Will Wall Street's lawyer layoffs slow down the number of CEO’s involved in financial crimes?

  Steve Lombardi | July 31, 2009 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Like many of you I’ve read the stories about lawyers being laid off in growing numbers. It got me wondering if these layoffs were perhaps a good thing. First the number of financial...

• Iowa Bank Sued Over Certificate's of Deposit

  Steve Lombardi | July 28, 2009 10:54 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Meta Bank of Iowa is being sued by 8 groups who bought fraudulent COD’s after former employee Charlene Marie Pickhinke of Sac City plead guilty to stealing $4.2 million from the bank. In...

• States Should Begin Jailing Mothers Who Wrongfully Identify Men in Paternity Actions

  Steve Lombardi | July 27, 2009 10:45 AM | 5 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It should be called the Hatley Amendment, in honor of Frank Hatley, a 50-year-old man who’s been in jail since June 2008 for not paying child support even though two separate DNA tests...

• Judge Chin Will Sentence Madoff on Monday – The next generation listens.

  Steve Lombardi | June 28, 2009 9:07 AM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The question Judge Chin answers on Monday is one of whether crime pays. The sentence he imposes will indicate the message we send to this next generation and how serious they take investing the...