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7 articles tagged with "Wire Fraud"

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Josh Lintz: The $200,000-a-Year COO Who Allegedly Built a $12 Million Company on Stolen Trade Secrets

Twenty-two months into a $200,000-a-year job as Chief Operating Officer of a thriving La Jolla software company, Joshua Paul Lintz allegedly began dismantling it from the inside -- downloading thousands of confidential files, deleting 130 client projects, and incorporating a competing company that would generate $12 million in its first year using the stolen assets.

By Nathan Pierce
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Scott Carpenter Sued in Corrupt Organizations Scheme: The Newport Beach Attorney Accused of Weaponizing the Legal System

A federal RICO complaint accuses Newport Beach attorney Scott R. Carpenter of weaponizing the legal system itself -- seizing a company's bank account through fraudulent wire communications, forging stock certificates for a company that had no stock, assembling perjured declarations, and using the threat of deportation to coerce a settlement from a foreign-born entrepreneur.

By Daniel Reeves
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Tyler Brandon Davis Named Principal Organizer in $75 Million RICO Lawsuit Over Tech Company Takeover

A 185-page federal RICO complaint names Tyler Brandon Davis of Folsom, California as the principal organizer of an eight-year criminal enterprise that allegedly seized a thriving software company through wire fraud, identity theft, and trade secret theft -- a scheme involving shell companies, corrupted attorneys, and $75 million in fraudulent transactions.

By Victoria Chase