December 21, 2012
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe Marion County prosecutor says homeowner Monserrate Shirley, her boyfriend, Mark Leonard, and his brother, Bobby Leonard,
have been charged with multiple counts of felony murder and arson.
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December 20, 2012
Associated PressThe Indianapolis Star likely must identify a person making anonymous comments on its website after the Indiana Supreme
Court refused to hear its appeal.
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December 20, 2012
Associated PressThe attorney general's office is sending out checks for a total of $6 million to 59 victims of 2011's deadly Indiana
State Fair stage collapse.
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December 20, 2012
J.K. WallAccording to a statement released by the SEC, Eli Lilly paid $6.5 million—and in some cases gave jewelry and spa treatments—to
win government contracts in Brazil, China, Russia and Poland.
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December 20, 2012
Associated PressAmgen Inc. has agreed to pay Indiana nearly $793,000 as part of a larger settlement to resolve allegations it paid kickbacks
to physicians who prescribed some of its drugs for unapproved uses.
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December 19, 2012
Associated PressA judge has ruled that two northeastern Indiana school districts can sell vacant schools, bypassing a state law requiring
them to wait four years in case a charter school wanted to claim the buildings.
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December 19, 2012
Associated PressOfficials say Denise Abrell defrauded the Country Club of Indianapolis of $400,000 by writing checks to herself and using
the club's credit card without its knowledge.
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December 18, 2012
Associated PressAn Indiana financier and former chief executive of National Lampoon who was convicted of swindling investors out of about
$200 million says he can't afford to hire an attorney to handle his appeal.
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December 14, 2012
Cory SchoutenWidow Bren Simon and her stepchildren finally managed to settle a long legal battle over the estate of mall magnate Melvin
Simon. The goal that appears to have united the survivors: Reducing Uncle Sam's take of a fortune that has swelled to nearly
$3 billion.
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December 13, 2012
Associated PressA top state attorney defended Indiana's punitive damages law Thursday against claims that it renders trials meaningless
by forcing judges to reduce awards in lawsuits without telling jurors.
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December 12, 2012
Cory SchoutenA long, contentious family battle over the $2 billion estate of the late shopping mall tycoon Melvin Simon has ended with
a confidential settlement.
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December 12, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinSixteen current and former Indianapolis hotel workers have settled their union-backed lawsuit that alleged employment violations
by nine area hotels and Atlanta-based Hospitality Staffing Solutions, a subcontractor that employs many hotel workers.
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December 11, 2012
Associated PressMichigan lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to right-to-work legislation, dealing a devastating and once-unthinkable defeat
to organized labor in a state that has been a cradle of the movement for generations.
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December 11, 2012
Scott OlsonThe National Fair Housing Alliance alleges in a lawsuit that four of the local apartment developer's properties violate Fair
Housing Act accessibility requirements.
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December 10, 2012
Associated PressThe Indiana Supreme Court on Monday let stand a ruling saying blood was drawn properly from an allegedly intoxicated Indianapolis
police officer after a 2010 fatal crash. But the officer's attorney said it's uncertain whether the evidence can be
introduced at trial.
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December 10, 2012
Associated PressAn attorney for Duke Energy Corp. urged the Indiana Court of Appeals on Monday to reverse a state regulatory panel's decision
blocking the company's attempt to pass onto its customers the cost of damages it incurred during a 2009 ice storm.
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December 10, 2012
Associated PressThe state Court of Appeals has dismissed The Indianapolis Star's appeal of a local judge's order requiring
it to identify a person who made anonymous comments on its website that a former chief executive of Junior Achievement of
Central Indiana contends were defamatory.
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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 6, 2012
Associated PressMarion County Judge Grant Hawkins said the case surrounding David Bisard had generated too much publicity for him to get a
fair trial in central Indiana.
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December 5, 2012
Associated PressAn Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles employee and two others have been charged with stealing cars from banks by filing fake
mechanic's liens.
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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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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.