Linda Satter
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Husband guilty, too, in scheme to extort
posted: 02/08/2012 6:10 a.m. Comment 1
A second person pleaded guilty Tuesday in an extortion case involving Conway banker Randy Sims, who until recently also was a longtime member of the board of trustees of the University of Central Arkansas.
Woman guilty in extortion plot
posted: 02/07/2012 4:36 a.m. Discuss
A Little Rock woman pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to extort $25,000 from banker Randy Sims last summer.
Man gets 10 years for child porn
posted: 02/04/2012 4:24 a.m. Comment 1
A Paragould man who collected thousands of pornographic images of toddlers, some with captions inviting the viewer to attack, torture and kill the children in the pictures, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.
U.S. judge levies $14,000 in penalties for deposition-related antics
posted: 02/03/2012 4:16 a.m. Discuss
For turning a court-ordered deposition into an exhausting day-and-night ordeal that left opposing counsel and the presiding judge fuming, attorney Ryan Solomon must pay $10,000 of the other attorney’s fees.
Ex-pastor will pay, go to jail for fraud
posted: 02/02/2012 4:59 a.m. Discuss
A former Jonesboro pastor must spend nearly three years in prison and pay back close to $600,000 for admittedly defrauding an Oklahoma bank and the IRS, a federal judge decided Wednesday.
Cross-burner gets top penalty
posted: 01/28/2012 4:24 a.m. Discuss
A second white man from Independence County was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for burning a cross in the yard of a black man.
Firebomb attack nets sentence of 35 years
posted: 01/28/2012 4:21 a.m. Discuss
An Evening Shade man who once proudly called himself a “devout racist” and scoffed at his history of violent crimes stood apologetically before a federal judge Friday, saying being jailed for a Hardy firebombing “was the best thing that could have happened to me.”
4 years penalty for accountant in federal fraud
posted: 01/28/2012 4:19 a.m. Discuss
An Ash Flat accountant who ran a tax-preparation business and was convicted last year by a federal jury of milking several government agencies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.
2nd officer pleads guilty in drug case
posted: 01/27/2012 5:56 a.m.
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A second law-enforcement officer snagged in the federal Delta Blues drug-trafficking and public-corruption investigation centered in Phillips and Lee counties pleaded guilty Thursday to extortion and money-laundering charges.
Ex-banker pleads guilty in fraud case
posted: 01/25/2012 5:31 a.m. Discuss
Kelly Harbert, a former Little Rock banker and socialite who for years served on boards and chaired events for several central Arkansas nonprofit organizations, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to fraud and money-laundering charges.
