Heartland Financial Services

Former offshore banker Kenneth Payne has been sentenced to 17 years and seven months in prison after pleading guilty to five counts of mail fraud and one count of money laundering in the United States.Payne, who helped to operate the now defunct 21st Century Banking Group, in Grenada, was sentenced on April 12, 2002 at the United States District Court for the District of Southern Indiana.

One of the principals of a now defunct Grenada-registered bank has been sentenced to five years and 11 months in prison in the United States.Daniel G. Danker, 53, was also fined $50,000 and ordered to pay restitution of more than $20 million at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on July 15, 2001.

Offshore regulators act against banks named in U. S. Senate's 'Correspondent Banking: A Gateway to Money Laundering' report, Marc Harris denounces attempt to strip him of Panamanian citizenship, David Voth comes up with a novel excuse as to why he can't make investment pay-outs, complaints about Morrison Cross Financial Investments start coming in, details of relatively-recent lawsuits involving Jerome Schneider and/or related entities, U. S. court approves settlement plan between Heartland Financial Services and investors who received "false profits", Pittsburgh travel agent Roy Davis Jr. becomes latest victim of John Mathewson's co-operation with US authorities, sset freeze order issued against Midpoint Trading Corporation, Euro Bank Corp. 'Preliminary Inquiry' hearing starts in Cayman Islands.