Creative Creations owner Patricia Urbanovsky will have a hearing to change plea in wire fraud, money

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Janice Podsada

Patricia Urbanovsky, owner of Creative Creations, has been granted a change-of-plea hearing in federal court, according to legal documents filed this week.

Urbanovsky pleaded not guilty in March to 16 federal counts of wire fraud and nine counts of money laundering. She is accused of bilking customers who bought air travel vouchers, many of which turned out to be useless.

Her change-of-plea hearing is scheduled for Sept. 9 in federal court in Omaha. She faces a maximum prison sentence of 365 years.

In regard to the hearing, Urbanovsky attorney Steve Lefler said Wednesday: “You can think what you want.”

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[etherealtruth]

1. Sorry I meant to reply in a differnt forum about this

[Omaha Steve]

2. From the story...

"began trickling into the Better Business Bureau in Omaha from all over the country"!

Need I say more?

Among those affected: Square Inc., the San-Francisco payment-processing company that ran more than $7 million in payments for the Omaha event-planning company and says it is out more than $4.7 million.

OS

[Omaha Steve]

4. It has been in LBN no less than 3 times before

But perhaps millions from across the USA is no longer relevant?

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[etherealtruth]

5. Sorry Steve i meant to reply in a different forum aabout this

[Omaha Steve]

6. Better Business Bureau links Creative Creations owner to another event-planning company that's...

http://www.omaha.com/money/better-business-bureau-links-creative-creations-owner-to-another-event/article_4f1d50cf-c58a-5d31-ba67-bb8daedfdf96.html

By Janice Podsada / World-Herald staff writer Updated 40 min ago

The Better Business Bureau says a “key employee” at The Event Specialists, an Omaha event-planning company, is Patricia Urbanovsky, who is facing state and federal charges in connection with the sale of millions of dollars of worthless travel vouchers.

A dozen customers in the past three months have made complaints about the company with the Better Business Bureau.

Urbanovsky ran Creative Creations, an Omaha event-planning company that is accused of selling the worthless vouchers. She has been free on bail for more than a year after being charged by county prosecutors with three felony counts of theft.

Customers of The Event Specialists in Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota reported to the BBB that their transactions had been handled by a person named “Trisha Hoffman.”

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