A former Kentucky funeral director has been charged with multiple felony preneed thefts, some of which occurred 25 years ago. Various news sources report that Donald Creech began pocketing consumer preneed payments as early as 1996. The consumer preneed payments were to have been forwarded to the Kentucky Funeral Directors Association’s master trust. Until he
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Serving Time in Kansas: Fairlawn Burial Park
By Bill Stalter on
Posted in Cemeteries, Preneed
Families and funeral homes harmed by NPS will hope that company’s owners and officers have to face a judge like the Honorable Richard Rome.
The Hutchinson News reported that District Judge Richard Rome rejected a plea bargain for probation, and sentenced Fairlawn Burial Park’s owner to almost 5 years in prison. A Kansas Secretary of…
It was the attorney’s fault
By Bill Stalter on
Here is a twist on the “Another theft from a death care trust”: this one does not involve a cemetery operator or a funeral director. Last week, an Indiana grand jury indicted a banker, an investment advisor and an attorney. What may sound like the beginning of a joke that most funeral directors and cemeterians can relate…