Anchorage, Alaska Sept. 5, 2018 – An in-depth study by Better Business Bureau finds that, while consumers may write fewer checks in this era of electronic financial transactions, fake check scams are on the rise. Fake checks are used in a variety of frauds, from employment scams to prize and sweepstakes fraud. In all cases, victims deposit […]
Closing arguments are set to take place Wednesday in the tax and bank fraud trial of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The prosecution and defense will each sum up their side of the case in front of the jury before the 12-person panel begins deliberations on Manafort’s guilt or innocence. Manafort’s […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they have made an arrest of a former bank employee that had accessed an account of a deceased bank customer and stole money from it shortly after his death in 2017. Susana Lepou, age 30 of Anchorage was arrested on Tuesday evening following an investigation opened on February 27th of this […]
Anchorage police say that as they were working a bank fraud investigation, that they made three arrests on Saturday. APD says that the three individuals that they arrested on various charges have been in the state only since October. Investigators identified the three suspects as 33-year-old Dwight McCullough, 22-year-old Andrea Hall, and 29-year-old Terrance Jefferson. During […]