Former bank exec receives 22-month sentence
Robert E. Tolle pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court of making fraudulent bank entries while serving as a loan officer at the Indianapolis office of Evansville-based Old National Bank.
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Fair Finance co-owner Cochran uses forceful defense
Tim Durham's partner in a failed Akron, Ohio, company says a trustee has nothing to back up his allegations of fraud.
Local economic espionage case full of intrigue
The government's allegations read like a spy novel: Dr. Ke-xue "John" Huang lands a job at Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences and over five years works himself into a position of trust, with access to trade secrets and processes the company has invested $300 million to develop.
Ex-Dow Agro scientist’s espionage indictment unsealed
A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday in Indianapolis charged 45-year-old Ke-xue "John" Huang
with theft and attempted
theft of trade secrets to benefit a foreign government.
Schrenker to plead guilty to securities fraud
A former money manager convicted of trying to fake his own death in a Florida plane crash last year has agreed to plead guilty
to securities fraud charges in Indiana. Marcus Schrenker would face 10 years in prison.
Ex-Dow AgroSciences employee accused of stealing trade secrets
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Ke-xue Huang, a native of China’s Hunan province, of stealing trade secrets of
a Dow AgroSciences insecticide and giving them to the People’s Republic of China. Federal agents arrested the former Dow Agro
scientist July 13 in Westboro, Mass.
Ex-Indiana University player Leary pleads guilty in fraud
Todd Leary of Carmel pleaded guilty in court Thursday to a felony charge of misappropriating title insurance escrow funds.
His agreement with prosecutors calls for him to face up to three years in prison, with that cut in half if he pays nearly
$295,000 in restitution.
Banker who wreaked havoc fesses up to felony charge
Overseeing a portfolio filled with deteriorating loans is downright
excruciating, as lending officers who’ve lived through the carnage of the recession can attest. Rob Tolle apparently
cracked under the pressure.
Former loan officer charged with falsifying documents
Prosecutors say Robert Tolle falsified a construction progress inspection report while at Old National Bank. He faces a maximum
30-year prison sentence and $1 million fine.
Shelbyville man sentenced for ripping off employer
John K. Branam was sentenced to 57 months in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling $1.6 million over four years from
King’s Title & Abstract Co.in Shelbyville.
Former funeral director facing 14 felony charges
A former Indianapolis funeral director is facing 14 felony charges for corrupt business influence, forgery and theft after
a grand jury investigation.
Local funeral home operator in Michigan jail
Robert Nelms will spend at least a month in jail until the sale of Memory Gardens Management Corp. is complete. He is awaiting
sentencing in Michigan and faces up to three years in prison.
Judge rejects controversial Guidant plea agreement
The deal included a $296 million criminal fine, but no charges against executives who failed to properly report problems with the company's defibrillators.
Fraud scheme nets Indianapolis man 15 years in Texas
Louis Simpson bilked investors of $948,500 by claiming to operate a program with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Memory Gardens manager sought $3.2M, awarded $175,000
A Johnson County judge approved the reduced amount, which was agreed upon during mediation. The settlement brings funeral
home and
cemetery business a step closer to being sold.
Penrod Society thief sentenced to five years
Marion County Superior Court Judge Stanley Kroh sentenced Brandon Benker to three years in prison and two years in a Community
Corrections program, in which he may be assigned to work release or home detention. Benker stole more than $380,000 from the
group in 2008.
Judge OKs sale of cemetery, funeral home company
Pennsylvania company is one step closer to purchasing the Indianapolis-based Memory Gardens Management Corp., whose former
owner pleaded guilty to theft and securities fraud.
Schrenker: ‘Data’ show he tried to fake own death
A former Fishers money manager facing fraud charges acknowledges in a newspaper interview that evidence indicates he was trying
to
fake his own death when he parachuted from his private plane that later crashed in a Florida swamp.
Not guilty plea entered for ex-IU player Leary
A judge has entered a preliminary not guilty plea for a former Indiana University basketball player charged in connection
with an ex-business partner’s multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.
Judge pushes back Schrenker’s securities fraud trial
A defense attorney and prosecutors have agreed to delay the trial on securities fraud charges of a former Indiana money manager
who tried to fake his death by jumping from a small plane before it crashed in Florida.