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Here's how Arkansas Business came to print an interview with an arrested, fired bank CEO. read more >

Bob Hartheimer waived his right to a hearing in federal court and will remain in custody as the case goes to a grand jury. read more >

New civil disputes and financial judgments have joined the multistate court docket involving Joseph Blake Smith and his failed SQRL convenience store venture. read more >

Four R Marketing LLC is suing one of its customers who was allegedly scammed by a hacker for $2.5 million. read more >

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Cyber Security, Energy Security & Emergency Response allocated the money to further work at the Emerging Threat Information Sharing & Analysis Center — a sort of cybersecurity clinic — at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. read more >

The hacker posted samples they said were from the database to an online forum popular with cybercriminals last weekend and said they were asking $50,000 for the entire database. read more >

Sworn depositions reveal that the original licensing process was questionable enough to spawn an FBI investigation. read more >

Cyber risk is business risk, and there is no shortage of recent examples of the wide-ranging economic effects wrought by cyberattacks. read more >

The plea deal gives Simon Ang the right to withdraw from the agreement if his sentence exceeds one year and one day. read more >

The FBI agreed Wednesday to help an Arkansas prosecutor unlock an iPhone and iPod belonging to two teenagers accused of killing a Conway couple. read more >

The Fayetteville bank had to make good on a guarantee it issued when Bolt fraudulently claimed $1.9 million in assets held as unclaimed by the state of California, an FBI agent testified Monday. read more >

The Arkansas headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in west Little Rock tipped the scales at $19.5 million. A 260-unit apartment project in Little Rock’s Riverdale area is in the works after a $2.57 million land deal. And a 9,460-SF office building in west Little Rock that was the subject of foreclosure proceedings has been sold for $750,000. read more >

The $19.5 million sale of the Arkansas headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation kicks off a quartet of million-dollar real estate transactions in Pulaski County. read more >

Resch takes over from Howard S. Marshall, who has been acting special agent in charge of the division since the departure last fall of Randall C. Coleman. read more >

James W. Bolt will be staying in jail after a federal court hearing in which an FBI agent said the Rogers businessman was suspected of being an accessory to a 2011 murder in southeast Missouri. read more >

James W. Bolt, the ex-convict who was arrested Thursday on a federal criminal complaint, was arraigned Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Fayetteville. read more >

James William Bolt, the ex-convict whose Rogers “cancer research center” was raided by federal authorities in June, was arrested Thursday evening on a federal complaint alleging wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering. read more >

Bolt has not been charged with any crime, but an FBI affidavit accuses him of faking documentation to claim $1.9 million in unclaimed stock belonging to a California company. read more >

Jim Bolt, the convicted felon whose "cancer research center" in Rogers was raided last week, used fake documents to claim and then sell almost $1.9 million worth of stock that the state of California had listed as unclaimed property, an FBI agent said in an affidavit filed Tuesday. read more >

Allen Frederick Wichtendal and Diana Stewart were indicted Thursday on 16 federal counts of defrauding investors of more than $1 million. read more >