August 2026
DCW Monthly: August 2026
Every industry eventually meets the bill for a problem it saw coming and filed away for later. Michael Byrne, IIBLP&
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Further to previous DCW reporting of a scam involving use of a bogus document labelled a standby letter of credit and other fraudulent documents (Florida County Defrauded of USD 1.4 Million, DCW Scam Survey, Jul/Aug 2023), one of three men implicated in a scheme to defraud Florida’s Manatee County out of nearly USD 1.4 million has been sentenced to jail and ordered to pay restitution.
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