{"id":170162,"date":"2012-03-07T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T22:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=170162"},"modified":"2012-03-08T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:20:50","slug":"hopkins-county-man-sentenced-for-bankruptcy-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=170162","title":{"rendered":"Hopkins County Man Sentenced for Bankruptcy Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=170164\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-170164\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/03\/thumb_Federalcourthouse21-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_Federalcourthouse2\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-170164\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 A 50-year-old Sulphur Springs man has been sentenced in Tyler for federal violations. Dennis Canada pleaded guilty last September to bankruptcy fraud. He was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison Wednesday in Tyler by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis. Canada was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $286,191.45.<\/p>\n<p>According to federal authorities, a civil lawsuit was filed on June 23, 2006, alleging that Canada engaged in negligent and fraudulent conduct related to the construction and sale of a home. At the same time, Canada was a party to another lawsuit in which another couple claimed Canada engaged in negligent and fraudulent conduct related to the construction of their home as well. Both cases were set for trial on June 23, 2008, and Canada filed for bankruptcy five days prior, on June 18, 2008. <\/p>\n<p>Canada admitted that from January 18, 2008 to Oct. 7, 2008, he devised a scheme to defraud his creditors by concealing his true financial condition in order to avoid paying their claims against him. Canada also admitted that during this same time, he transferred and withdrew funds from bank accounts under his control in an effort to conceal the funds from his creditors. Canada admitted that he failed to disclose income, transfers of funds, financial accounts, cash on hand, and payments to creditors when he filed for bankruptcy on June 18, 2008. Canada was indicted by a federal grand jury on Mar. 2, 2011. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 A 50-year-old Sulphur Springs man has been sentenced in Tyler for federal violations. Dennis Canada pleaded guilty last September to bankruptcy fraud. He was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison Wednesday in Tyler by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis. Canada was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $286,191.45. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=170162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hopkins County Man Sentenced for Bankruptcy Fraud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 19:39:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170162"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170499,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170162\/revisions\/170499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}