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Weekly Roundup: Prosecutors Ring in the New Year with Spate of Money Laundering Convictions
printMany may still be recovering from their holiday celebrations, but at least one line of work doesn't seem to have been slowed by festivities: money laundering prosecutions. In a week full of headlines about high-profile financial crimes, federal prosecutors secured a spate of guilty pleas. On Friday, former University of Louisville education dean Robert Felner pleaded guilty in a Louisville, KY federal court to charges that he and a co-conspirator defrauded the University of Louisville and the University of Rhode Island out of $2.3 million, according to the courier-journal.com. More Felner was initially indicted in October 2008 on 10 counts,...
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