Feds move to freeze assets of woman who embellished husbandโs wartime injuries in fraud scheme
Department of Justice officials have moved to freeze the assets of a Dripping Springs woman who embellished her Army husbandโs wartime injuries as part of a lengthy fraud scheme, federal court records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.
Woman who embellished husbandโs wartime injuries sentenced to nearly four years in prison
A Dripping Springs woman who embellished her Army veteran husbandโs wartime injuries to carry out a lengthy fraud scheme was sentenced to nearly four years in prison by a federal judge in San Antonio Thursday.
Australian telco fined $39M for exploiting Indigenous folk
Australiaโs largest telecommunications company Telstra has been fined 50 million Australian dollars ($39 million) for unconscionable conduct in selling remote Indigenous customers mobile phone contracts that they did not understand and could not afford.
Lawsuit: Sheriff Salazar had mobile home park manager arrested for criticizing him on TV
A lawsuit filed in federal court this week accuses Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar of having the former manager of an east Bexar County mobile home park arrested after the man criticized Salazar on television.
Prosecutors dismiss invasive recording charge against ex-Schertz police corporal as focus shifts to federal case
Ricardo Aleman, 42, no longer faces a state charge of invasive visual recording, according to Bexar County court records. Aleman was removed as a corporal from the Schertz Police Department in January 2020, the same day he was arrested on the invasive recording charge. Ex-Schertz police corporal accused of secretly recording teen faces federal child pornography chargesA relative of the victim found pictures and videos from the cameras stored on an external hard drive in Alemanโs Schertz Police patrol vehicle, the warrant states. AdAleman was indicted late last year on two child pornography charges: sexual exploitation of children (production of child pornography) and possession of child pornography, federal court records show. If no plea agreement is accepted in the federal case, Aleman is tentatively scheduled to go to trial April 5.
Federal lawsuit: Multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme targeted retired SAPD officers, other first responders
SAN ANTONIO โ A Kendall County man swindled millions of dollars from retired San Antonio police officers and other first responders as part of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme, according to a lawsuit filed this week by investigators from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The lawsuit, which was first reported by the San Antonio Express-News, accuses 47-year-old Victor Lee Farias of carrying out the fraudulent investment scheme from 2013 through January of last year. Farias told investors their money would be spent on aircraft engines and other parts which would then be leased or resold to the major airlines, according to the lawsuit. Investors, many of whom were retired first responders, were promised a return on their investments of between 10-12 percent per year, the suit states. The suit claims Farias is 46, but a background check revealed that he is actually 47.