ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Kenai woman was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for making a materially false statement in a bankruptcy case. According to court documents and statements made in court, Saray Consuelo Sarmiento Angarita Lockwood, 58, ran a successful dental clinic in Kenai with her late husband. In April 2019, […]
The sentence comes during International Fraud Awareness Week ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for defrauding at least 177 victims of more than $26 million through an investment fraud scheme. According to court documents, Garrett Elder, 30, convinced victims to transfer funds to him for investment in […]
The defendants allegedly set up scheme to take millions through grants and federally backed loans. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage couple has been indicted by a federal grand jury for using their nonprofit, House of Transformations, and other corporate entities, as part of a scheme to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in COVID-19 recovery funds. […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor filed a lawsuit against James Francis Dainis and six companies owned by Dainis (264KB PDF), alleging that they engaged in widespread fraud in the ATM industry. According to the complaint, Dainis sells ATMs to small business, non-profits, and ANCSA corporations, and provides related services, including connecting the machines […]