by Bob Allen | Feb 5, 2007 | News
A third former Baptist Foundation of Arizona official was sentenced to prison Friday for his role in a half-billion-dollar affinity fraud. Donald Dale Deardoff, 49, the BFA’s former treasurer, received four years in prison and was ordered to pay $159 million in...
by Bob Allen | Sep 29, 2006 | News
Two former Baptist Foundation of Arizona executives were sentenced to prison Friday and ordered to pay $159 million in restitution in a fraud case involving what is thought to be the largest non-profit bankruptcy in the nation’s history. William Crotts, the...
by Bob Allen | Sep 6, 2006 | News
A sixth defendant in the Baptist Foundation of Arizona criminal trial pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony charges of fraudulent schemes and artifices. According to terms of a plea bargain proposed by prosecutors, former BFA board member Lawrence Dwain Hoover could be...
by Bob Allen | Jul 24, 2006 | News
Two former executives of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona were convicted Monday on three counts of fraudulent schemes and one count of conducting an illegal enterprise. But a jury found them innocent on 23 counts of theft, saying they didn’t intend to steal...
by Bob Allen | Jul 5, 2006 | News
Jurors in the Baptist Foundation of Arizona fraud trial are on a two-week break, following a week of deliberations in the longest and most expensive criminal trial in Arizona history. Jury deliberations in the 10-month trial began June 28. Friday afternoon Maricopa...
