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INDIANAPOLIS Acting U.S. Attorney John E. Childress announced today that George S. Blankenbaker Jr. of Westfield, Indiana, was charged in federal court for two counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. According to the information, between May 2008 and August 2016, Blankenbaker created three business entities, Stargrower Commercial Bridge Loan Fund 1 LLC and Stargrower Asset Management, LLC (hereinafter the Stargrower Entities) and EDU Holding Trust (the Trust). He later used these entities, which he owned and managed, in the execution of a Ponzi and money laundering scheme. The victims of this scheme placed enormous trust in Mr. Blankenbaker to wisely manage and invest their hard-earned money, said Childress. Instead, he exploited their trust through deception and lies for his own personal gain. ....
Grand Rapids, MI A federal jury convicted Calvin Charles Colbert, Jr., of Los Angeles, California, of federal drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy offenses following a five-day trial, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. Colbert is one of ten defendants who were convicted for their roles in connection with the conspiracies, which was led locally by Johaun Lamont Howland, of Grand Rapids. Shortly before trial, Howland pled guilty to the drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies involving Colbert, and to firearms charges. From January 2017 through September 2018, Colbert was Howland s Los Angeles-based source for cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl. Colbert used the United States Postal Service and other interstate carriers to ship large quantities of drugs to Howland, who would further distribute the drugs in Grand Rapids and surrounding areas. ....
Indianapolis Ernie Perkins of Zionsville, and the owner of Remarkable Creative Enterprises ( RCE ), was sentenced to 70 months imprisonment in connection with his role in a massive, years-long fraud conspiracy that resulted in the theft of more than $8.4 million from a Pennsylvania based bank and a Pennsylvania based insurance company. Neither the bank nor the insurance company are being named because they are victims in this case. The license to run a business is not permission to use trusted business partners as an endless stream of free money, said Acting Special Agent in Charge Tamera Cantu, of IRS Criminal Investigation, Chicago Field Office. John Williams and his accomplices used their positions and access to the banking system to steal over $8 million from multiple businesses, as well as the honest, hardworking Americans who pay their tax obligations. The IRS is committed to aggressively investigating those individuals who engage in tax evasion, money laundering, ....
Two Redford Township men have been charged with stealing mail from more than 200 people across Metro Detroit, in some cases altering names on checks to cash them, federal officials announced Thursday. Justin Lohman, 35, and Justin Cutshaw, 34, are accused of a fraud scheme targeting residents in more than 30 communities, including Bloomfield Hills, Farmington Hills, Livonia, Westland, Canton Township, Plymouth, Northville, Novi and Clinton Township, the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan said in a statement. Police in the region had been receiving complaints linked to the pair since 2019, according to documents filed this week in U.S. District Court,. ....