A lawsuit filed in federal court this week accuses local restaurant owner Katherine Mott and a business partner, Robert Harris, of an $18.9 million "check kiting" scheme. So just what is check kiting?

The federal courthouse in Sioux Falls. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) An Iowa ag company accused of operating a billion-dollar check-kiting scheme is being sued by a lender that claimed 110,000 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – An owner of some of the most popular restaurants in town who is accused of a check-kiting scheme by one bank is now suing another. Katherine Mott has been accused by Five Star Bank ...

The owner of a used car dealership in Hattiesburg pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Forty-two-year-old Aaron Brown, owner of Aaron's Auto Sales admitted to ...

BERESFORD, South Dakota (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - A financially troubled Iowa company is operating under a court order to show it did not attempt to destroy or manipulate financial data sought by a ...

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A former executive at the O'Fallon, Illinois-based Bank of O'Fallon this week pleaded guilty to check kiting and investment fraud from which he gained more than $2 million and left a retired Illinois ...

A former Cape Girardeau car dealership owner was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison Monday for his part in a check-kiting scheme. Judge Rodney Sippel sentenced Clinton W. McDonough, 32, of ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- A former financial executive has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to a multimillion dollar check-kiting scheme that contributed to the closure of ...