The Anchorage man who was convicted of robbing the same Wells Fargo bank on Debarr Road on three separate occasions in 2017 and 2018, was sentenced in Federal Court on Thursday. Christopher Hatting, age 38, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason to serve four years concurrently after pleading guilty to the charges of […]
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 […]