Candy Kern

Location: South Carolina

Age at the time of arrest: 55

Date of sentencing: August 2023

Kern was sentenced to five years probation and a year and a half of home detention.

Candy Kern, a former attorney, used her law firm to facilitate fraudulent schemes involving veterans’ benefits. She defrauded more than $31 million from her victims nationwide for nearly a decade. Kern carried out her scheme from 2012 to 2021 and exploited military veterans facing financial hardship and targeted elderly investors. Her scheme offered veterans cash in exchange for temporary rights to their pensions and disability payments. Kern was the managing partner at her firm where she also acted as a banker, legal counsel, and debt collector in this cash flow scam.

Articles

• https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/south-carolina-woman-pleads-guilty-fraud-conspiracy-targeting-retirees-and-military-pension
• https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2023-04-21/veterans-fraud-case-south-carolina-9874708.html
• https://www.foxcarolina.com/2024/06/20/upstate-lawyer-disbarred-after-pleading-guilty-scheme-targeting-military-veterans/