The government said the scheme involved placing "skimmers" into automated teller machines to steal debit-card information while a hidden camera captured PINs.
Grand Rapids, Michigan Michael David Stamp of Decatur, Michigan, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison for bank fraud and federal farm program fraud. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney imposed the sentence. He also sentenced Stamp to five years of supervised release and ordered him to pay more than $17 million in restitution to Wells Fargo Bank, the U.S. Department of Agriculture s Risk Management Agency, and U.S.D.A. s Farm Service Agency. Mr. Stamp fraudulently obtained $68 million in bank loans and took advantage of government programs funded by U.S. taxpayers. Today s sentence should serve as a reminder that defrauding public programs and providing false or misleading documents to financial institutions are serious crimes that undermine our financial system and will not be tolerated, said Sarah Kull, Special Agent in Charge, IRS-Criminal Investigations.
‘Drug dealer in a white coat,’ doctor sent to prison for illegal opioid prescriptions
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
A Grand Rapids doctor was sentenced Tuesday, Jan. 12, to federal prison for illegally prescribing controlled substances. (MLive File Photo)Shutterstock
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A former Grand Rapids physician was called a “drug dealer in a white coat” for prescribing opioids that were sold on the street.
Dr. Richard Samuel Piazza, 63, pleaded guilty to three charges of unlawfully writing prescriptions for controlled substances such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, two of the drugs behind the nation’s opioid crisis.
U.S. District Judge Janet Neff on Tuesday, Jan. 12, sentenced Piazza to nearly six years in prison, to be followed by three years on supervised release.