Former bank exec pleads guilty to $2M check kiting scheme and stealing $500K from a couple. The feds have recommended a ...

A check kiting scheme - depositing bad checks and withdrawing cash before it got noticed - led by a Mansfield man pulled in ...

Andrew Blassie, who had been hospitalized after a suicide attempt, appeared at a federal court hearing in East St. Louis.

State police alleged that they found that he recruited numerous individuals to partake in the scheme which spanned between at ...

Bank of O’Fallon is more than an employer to Andrew Blassie — it’s a family-owned and operated enterprise founded by his wife ...

Eric Christian, of Mansfield, was arrested Thursday in a check fraud investigation that causes losses upwards of $350,000, ...

COLLINSVILLE - Collinsville Police have two felony warrants for Demarco Q. Robinson on charges of financial institution fraud ...

Check kiting is a form of check fraud that involves taking advantage of falsely reported funds in a bank account, with the perpetrator using the check more like an unauthorized, unlimited credit ...

The bank had come to the police claiming that Andrew Blassie, the bank’s second-in-command, had stolen nearly $2 million from the bank in a check kiting scheme, according to police reports.