Georgia Woman Guilty of Bankruptcy Fraud in South Carolina
| U.S. Attorney’s Office April 15, 2009 |
COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated that Amanda Boulware, 42, of Union City, Georgia, pled guilty in federal court in Columbia to making a fraudulent statement on a bankruptcy petition. United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., accepted the plea and will sentence Boulware at a later date.
In August 2007 Boulware filed a Chapter 13 voluntary bankruptcy petition with the United States Bankruptcy Court in Columbia. Boulware deliberately failed to list nine previous bankruptcy cases she had filed, and then certified the petition as true and accurate. At that time, Boulware was subject to an Order issued three months earlier by a United States Bankruptcy Judge in Georgia prohibiting Boulware from refiling for bankruptcy relief in any federal district for five years.
The maximum penalty of imprisonment Boulware faces is five years in prison and a $250,000.00 fine.
The case was investigated by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant
U.S. Attorney Anne Hunter Young of the Columbia office is prosecuting the case.