- FraudFollowing a 16-month Federal grand jury probe, Bakker was indicted in 1988 on eight counts of mail fraud, 15 counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy. U.S. District Judge Robert Potter sentenced Jim Bakker to 45 years in prison, saying, "Those of us who do have a religion are sick of being saps for money-grubbing preachers and priests." ×
- RobberyJames Jordan, driving home to Charlotte from a funeral, pulled off the road to sleep and became the victim of "a random act of violence" by two local men who "conspired to commit armed robbery," the prosecutor said.
- MurderSteve Huseby is the court reporter.Daniel Andre Green and Larry Martin Demery didn't realize who lay dead in the passenger seat of the car they had just stolen until a half-hour after they shot the man. Green was driving the stolen vehicle, a cherry-red Lexus, and Demery was in the back seat behind the body. They pulled off a rural… Read more
- Money LaunderingThe Loomis Fargo Bank heist was a $20 million robbery of the Charlotte, North Carolina, regional office vault of Loomis Fargo & Company on October 4, 1997, by armored car driver and vault supervisor David Scott Ghantt. An FBI criminal investigation (which became international in scope) ultimately resulted in the arrest and conviction of eight people directly involved in the heist. All but one of the defendants plead guilty. The defendants received sentences ranging from probation for several relatives to 11 years and three months in federal prison for Steve Chambers. The only defendant to not plead guilty, Chambers' attorney Jeff Guller, was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to eight years in prison. The defendants became the targets of jokes in Charlotte and across the country, in part because of their extravagant spending. For a time, it was nicknamed "the hillbilly heist" because nearly all of the major players in the case came from small towns around Charlotte.
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