Victim Services & Restorative Justice

2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (268+ words) A downstate farmer has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for a multimillion-dollar bank fraud scheme, authorities said. Travis L. Murphy, 55, of Chandlerville, was sentenced to 42 months in prison and three years of supervised release for bank fraud,…...

12+ hour, 47+ min ago   (214+ words) CHARLOTTE — A 33-year-old Rockingham County man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 months in federal prison for his role in a bank fraud scheme that defrauded at least 10 identity theft victims of more than $650,000. U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson for the Western District…...

7+ hour, 13+ min ago   (507+ words) A Nigerian national who built a fraudulent persona as a successful real estate entrepreneur has been handed a four-year federal prison sentence after swindling more than $2.7 million from dozens of victims across the United States and abroad. First Assistant United…...

13+ hour ago   (511+ words) A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former Charlotte City Council member Tiawana Brown to 10 months in federal prison for taking part in stealing COVID-19 relief money. A judge rejected prosecutors’ request that she get probation instead. Her two daughters, who…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (598+ words) A Chicago felon was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison earlier this month for recruiting coconspirators and setting up what a judge called a “sophisticated and massive” fraud scheme involving nearly $1.3 million in stolen or altered U.S. Treasury checks…...

21+ hour, 40+ min ago   (286+ words) A woman who served as a councilmember in Charlotte and pleaded guilty to a federal fraud case during COVID has been sentenced to prison. WCNC reported that Tiawana Brown, who was previously on Charlotte City Council, was sentenced to 10 months…...

23+ hour, 18+ min ago   (346+ words) A 33-year-old Reidsville man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in a bank fraud scheme that stole stolen identities to loot bank accounts across western North Carolina, with losses topping $650,000. Jacob Lawson will also serve three…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (249+ words) Former Charlotte City Councilwoman Tiawana Brown was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to 10 months in prison for COVID-19 relief fraud. Her two daughters got probation for their part in the scheme. Brown and her daughters made emotional pleas, asking for…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (501+ words) A federal judge sentenced former Charlotte councilwoman Tiawana Brown to 10 months in prison for felony COVID fraud — a decision he second-guessed after an outburst at the end of Tuesday morning’s three-hour hearing. A combination of wire fraud and wire fraud…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (291+ words) URBANA, Ill. (WICS/WRSP) - A Chandlerville man, Travis L. Murphy, 55, was sentenced on September 21, 2026, to 42 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for bank fraud. Murphy was also ordered to pay $4,966,624.01 in restitution to UMB Bank. The misrepresentation caused UMB Bank…...