April 27, 2013
Greg AndrewsMany of the defendants pursued by Brian Bash and his team have few, if any, assets. And those that do have the wherewithal
to fight litigation for years.
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March 4, 2013
J.K. WallFilm company once headed by Indianapolis financier Tim Durham says he transferred $1 million to his Indianapolis lawyer, John
Tompkins, while fighting federal securities fraud charges.
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February 20, 2013
Scott OlsonA lawyer from one of the nation's largest law firms is handling the convicted financier's federal appeal free of charge, court
documents show.
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February 16, 2013
The legislature is considering a bill that would require intrastate securities offerings to file audited financials, a safeguard
that caused trouble for Fair Finance investors.
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January 23, 2013
Scott OlsonFair Finance bankruptcy trustee Brian Bash, charged with recovering funds for Fair investors, alleges in a court filing that
National Lampoon funded convicted Ponzi schemer Tim Durham's defense. Durham is a former CEO of the film company.
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January 6, 2013
Associated PressA federal judge says former Indiana financier Tim Durham doesn't have to pay to appeal his conviction for swindling investors
out of more than $200 million.
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December 8, 2012
Greg AndrewsShouldn’t the 5,100 Ohio investors who lost more than $200 million when Fair collapsed have seen Fair’s lofty
interest rates as a red flag?
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December 7, 2012
Scott OlsonDonald R. Fair, the former owner of Fair Finance Co. who sold the business to fraudsters Tim Durham and James Cochran, agreed
to the settlement Thursday.
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December 3, 2012
Scott OlsonLocal criminal defense lawyers who tracked the trial of Tim Durham and his accomplices say chances are slim that they would
prevail on appeal. One said Durham would have a better chance of winning the lottery.
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November 30, 2012
Greg Andrews, Scott Olson, Cory SchoutenFormer Indianapolis businessman Tim Durham was sentenced to 50 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that led to the
collapse of Fair Finance, costing thousands of investors $250 million. Accomplices Jim Cochran and Rick Snow received 25 years
and 10 years, respectively.
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November 30, 2012
Cory SchoutenIBJ provided ongoing updates from the courthouse where Ponzi schemer Tim Durham and two accomplices were sentenced
Friday afternoon.
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November 30, 2012
Scott OlsonA 74-year-old former nun who cares for young children to earn a living after being swindled out of her life savings and a
woman whose father lost $170,000 in proceeds from the sale of his farm testified against Tim Durham and his two fraud accomplices
Friday morning.
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November 29, 2012
Cory SchoutenConvicted Ponzi schemer Tim Durham and two accomplices will find out Friday whether they will spend the rest of their lives
in prison.
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November 28, 2012
Scott OlsonSC Design Inc. lists debt of $1.5 million. Most of it is owed to Fair Finance, formerly co-owned by convicted fraudster Tim
Durham, through a claim filed by a trustee seeking to recover investor funds.
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November 27, 2012
Scott OlsonSaying their crimes were "as serious as any financial fraud crime ever committed," federal prosecutors re-emphasized Monday
their recommendation that Ponzi schemer Tim Durham and his two accomplices deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prison.
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November 26, 2012
Scott OlsonConvicted Ponzi schemer Tim Durham is requesting a much shorter prison stay than the life sentence federal prosecutors want
him to serve. The convicted Ponzi schemer and two associates are set to be sentenced Friday.
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November 24, 2012
Greg AndrewsThe Ohio Division of Securities allowed Fair Finance to register investment certificates even after the company stopped providing
audited financials and Tim Durham drained more than $100 million from the firm through insider loans.
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November 1, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinSomerset CPAs PC will pay $500,000 to settle litigation brought by the bankruptcy trustee of Fair Finance Co., the Ohio-based
firm that convicted financier Tim Durham used to conduct a major Ponzi scheme.
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November 1, 2012
Greg AndrewsThe attorney for convicted Ponzi schemer Tim Durham argues that the presentencing report miscalculates the losses suffered
by investors, includes a range of allegations that weren’t proven at trial and blames his client for events outside
his control.
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October 17, 2012
Cory SchoutenThe trustee in the Fair Finance bankruptcy case and his law firm have run up legal bills approaching $9 million, nearly double
the recoveries they've achieved to date for investors victimized by convicted fraudster Tim Durham.
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September 26, 2012
Associated PressA federal judge has set a November sentencing for Indiana financier Tim Durham and two business associates convicted of swindling
thousands of investors out of more than $200 million.
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July 26, 2012
Scott OlsonThe compensation plan submitted by Cleveland-based Baker & Hostetler LLP could have netted the law firm $32.5 million if it
recovered the entire $200 million or more owed to investors of Fair Finance, which was owned by convicted Indianapolis financier
Tim Durham.
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June 25, 2012
Cory SchoutenConvicted Ponzi schemers Tim Durham and James Cochran will be held in a federal prison until sentencing, while accomplice
Rick Snow will be confined under home detention, under an order issued Monday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane E. Magnus-Stinson.
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June 23, 2012
Greg AndrewsA New York firm is contacting Fair Finance Co. investors seeking to purchase their bankruptcy claims—a sign of growing
optimism that investors in the defunct business will secure a sizable recovery.
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June 21, 2012
Cory SchoutenAn attorney for convicted fraud mastermind Tim Durham vowed Thursday to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary
to prove his client did nothing wrong.
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First, the Athenaeum is going to have to get past the hurdle with the Lockerbie residents and the agreement that the parcel would be residential. Second, and in my opinion, this prime piece of property should include parking, PLUS, a black box theater(s), some market rate and affordable artist housing and a plan to renovate and reconfigure the second story theater. I would negotiate to add the DeHaan property surface parking lot into the development mix, place a one story surface parking garage on the DeHaan lot on the street level (for the Dehaan tenants use during the daytime) and add a second story to the garage that would become an addition to the current second story theater and then change the direction of the theater by moving the stage across the alley and on top of the DeHaan lot parking. You can add all the stage elements that are currently missing from the Athenaeum stage to make it more attractive for use by Ballet, Opera and traveling productions. Plus, the theater changes would probably help solve some of the soundproofing issues. Alas,it does not seem to be a part of the strategic plan to conduct a study to determine best use of the property. Seems like the current plan is a quick and easy move that ignores the property best use/potential and any strategic property planning for the effect on future generations.
I recall that MSA's pilings are still in the ground and hard to remove. It’s not likely any proposal will include significant underground construction/parking because of this. Start adding 2 floors of retail, 8 floors of parking and 5-10 floors of possible hotel, and/or 10-20 floors of residential, and you are at 30 floors already with possible expansion of all the uses. But then again I could be wrong.
Accoriding to their website there is no deadline to the Do Not Call list. What is this article referring to??
On what planet are they entitled to this largesse from the stockholders? These people make multi-million dollar salaries: Pay for your own personal travel.
It matters because they're already paid enormously fat salaries: Pay for your own personal travel. Being "taxed on it" isn't a valid excuse--so what? They're still being gifted a raft of luxury perks from somebody else's money on top of an enormous, lavish salary.