Tony Rand

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The oldest of serial fraudster Tony Rand’s five sons, Wayne Rand, was stabbed to death at a motel near Dallas. read more >

Wayne Anthony Rand, 61, the oldest of infamous serial fraudster Tony Rand’s five felonious sons, died in Dallas County last Tuesday. read more >

Jeff Rand’s sentence forbade participation in the oil and gas industry during his supervised release. But he and a couple of prison buddies came up with a business plan that appeared to violate that order. read more >

On Wednesday of this week, Jeff Rand will officially be released from the oversight of the federal Bureau of Prisons’ Dallas Residential Reentry Management field office. read more >

A few weeks of intensive exposure to “American Greed” has also underscored one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned as editor of Arkansas Business lo these many years: Wealth and the appearance of wealth are two different things. read more >

A nearly seven-year stretch in prison apparently served only to inspire a vastly larger interstate scheme from Texas. This gambit involved Tony Rand, now 70, and his five sons swindling hundreds of oil and gas investors of more than $110 million. Some suspect their schemes at times resembled a plot line in a zany 1968 movie “The Producers.” read more >

Before he began a oil fraud with his sons that culminated with a 2009 indictment, Tony Rand churned $17 million through his Rand Theatres operation to feed his family’s taste for the good life. read more >

The pending sale of National Bank of Arkansas will mark an end to a 32-year run for the North Little Rock enterprise. Though Arvest Bank sealed the deal, other banks inquired about purchasing NBA. Plus: a conservative estimate of the value of the deal. read more >

A reader asked where all those Rands — former North Little Rock residents Tony and his five felonious sons — are serving their prison time for various oil and gas scams that totaled some $110 million. read more >