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Former USC admissions official agrees to plead guilty to running fraudulent scheme

On: April 4, 2020

A former University of Southern California admissions official has agreed to plead guilty to a wire fraud charge in a scheme to obtain USC graduate school admission slots for unqualified international students in exchange for thousands of dollars in cash. In a plea agreement filed this afternoon, Hiu Kit David …continue reading

Accountant pleads guilty to wire fraud charge for running Ponzi scheme

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On: March 22, 2019

In: Crime

A certified public accountant pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud charge for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded her victims, many of whom were clients of her accounting firm, out of tens of millions of dollars over a span of two decades. Carol Ann Pedersen, 66, of Long Beach, …continue reading