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Federal agents now control several accounts and two cars that they say were funded or bought with misappropriated funds by former Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City controller Lee Brown.

A new lawsuit accuses the former leader at one of Kansas City's major economic development agencies of lying about his credentials and wiring himself millions of dollars. Plus, the AFC Championship game is back in Kansas City for the fifth year in a row — and business is booming.

Derges, an assistant physician, was elected in November 2020 to represent Christian County. Missouri law requires her to forfeit her office once she is sentenced.

A jury found Jorge Perez, who oversaw 18 rural hospitals in eight states through his management company EmpowerHMS, guilty of fraudulently billing insurance companies for services the hospitals did not perform. Perez had proclaimed it his life’s mission to protect rural health care.

Shawn Lynn Parcells, 42, faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced on Aug. 25.

At least 375 clients paid Shawn Parcells more than $1.1 million in fees between May 2016 and May 2019, according to the federal indictment.

Wandale J. Fulton was charged with running a ring that also included ID theft and car title fraud. He will spend at least ten years in federal prison.

An alleged Kansas City crime ring leader named Wandale J. Fulton faces charges of identity theft, arson for profit. It took years for local, state and federal investigators to build their case. Plus, how 20-somethings in the city are coping with yet another round of COVID closures.

It took local, state and federal investigators years to put together the case against Wandale J. Fulton. Now the alleged ring leader is set for trial in federal court in Kansas City next month.

Medical records show Dr. Scott Taggart Roethle has been sanctioned in at least 10 states for prescribing medications via telemedicine to patients with whom he did not have a physician-patient relationship.

Bakker offered "Silver Solution" to viewers in return for “donations” of $80 or $125.

Following widespread unemployment fraud that hit Kansas particularly hard, the legislature is taking steps to reform its system.