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#419 Updated: 5/23/07 1:40 p.m.

Scam Offers Cut-Rate Plasma TVs
The unsolicited faxes to small businesses in and around Scranton, Pennsylvania,
seemed plausible enough: Get a 50-inch plasma-screen TV for less then $800.  
Full story, FBI

FORMER EXECUTIVE OF U.S. FOOD SENTENCED
In addition to 84 months imprisonment, KAISER, 50, of Ellicott City, Maryland, was
sentenced to 2 years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine
and a special assessment of $600.  FBI press release.

Feds call Nacchio assets elusive
"The United States does not know the location of all of Mr. Nacchio's assets, or
the location of the assets of his wife, and any family trusts and foundations,"
prosecutors said in a court filing on Friday.  Full story, Denver Post

Trucking company bankruptcy trial set
According to court documents, during the year and a half Waldner operated H&W,
more than $1.8 million was transferred to other companies either owned or
associated with the defendant and other officers of H&W.  Full story,
DesMoinesRegister.com

Colorado mortgage fraud declines
The top 10 states for mortgage fraud in 2006, according to MARI's report were, in
order: Florida, California, Michigan, Georgia, Utah, New York, Illinois, Minnesota,
Colorado and Nevada.  Full story, BizJournals.com

Former Phila. museum president charged with fraud
The prosecutor's office alleged John S. Carter, 57, used more than $1.5 million in
museum funds on personal items such as clothing, jewelry, art and construction of
a new carriage home at his Osterville, Mass., property.  Full story, BizJournals.com