By Andrew Wolfson
awolfson@courier-journal.com
Over the tearful objections of one of his former wives and another witness, who asked for a harsher penalty, accused bigamist George W. Dumstorf Jr. was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for providing counterfeit certificates of deposit as collateral for nearly $850,000 in loans.
Often crying as she spoke, Martha Irene Weed, who married Dumstorf in 2004 while he allegedly was still married to the first of his three wives, said part of her “still loves him dearly,” but he can’t be trusted.
Read the full story in the Courier-Journal.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Kentucky woman charged in a bank fraud scheme that began in Montana and spread to five other states has pleaded guilty to federal charges.
Patience D. Isaacs pleaded guilty Tuesday in District Court in Billings to bank fraud. She had been indicted with co-defendant 37-year-old Kevin J. Dixon of Oregon on conspiracy charges. The 22-year-old Isaacs’ sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 14.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Wolff said that in September 2007, Isaacs and another person began the credit card and cash advance scheme at least 11 banks in the Bozeman and Livingston areas. Banks in Montana lost more than $60,000.
Isaacs and Dixon left Montana and are suspected of scamming nine other banks in Wyoming, Oregon, Minnesota, Indiana and Kentucky.
The FBI received a tip and arrested the couple Dec. 2 as they were heading to their seats for a Pittsburgh Steelers game at Heinz Field. Dixon has pleaded not guilty.
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Information from: Billings Gazette, http://www.billingsgazette.com
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — A federal prosecutor says a Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to bank fraud, mail fraud and money laundering after admitting to misusing a loan from a bank and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
U.S. Attorney David Huber said in a statement Tuesday that 62-year-old Lloyd Aaron Smith of Dyersburg, Tenn., entered the plea in federal court in Paducah. He is scheduled for sentencing Jan. 14.
Smith and a co-defendant, Neal Gordon Wall, of Newbern, Tenn., obtained $5.5 million in loans from Citizens Bank in Hickman and the Tennessee Valley Authority in the fall of 2003 with a restriction that the money be used for the operation of a textile plant, Hickman Mills. Smith admitted to using the money for unrelated businesses.
Wall has pleaded not guilty. His trial is scheduled to begin on Nov. 3 in Paducah.
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