embezzlement

Brad Heppner, founder of Texas-based Beneficient and at one time the leader of a Kansas subsidiary issued the bank charter on orders of the Kansas Legislature, goes on trial in New York for securities fraud, wire fraud, making false statements, falsifying records and conspiracy. He entered a plea of not guilty on all charges.

A contractor in the Tulsa area faces 17 counts of felony embezzlement and one count of engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses following an investigation by Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Consumer Protection Unit.

A federal investigation has been launched into the alleged embezzlement of $2.6 million by an employee of an obscure state board that promotes the beef…