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A Los Angeles man has pleaded not guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that cheated about 50 investors in a NASCAR merchandise wholesale business out of at least $10 million.
A Pennsylvania staffing company gamed the nation's visa program by obtaining hundreds of work visas under names culled from a Mexican phonebook and supplying the paperwork to illegal immigrants placed in landscaping and other seasonal jobs, authorities said Monday.
A second Florida man accused of running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 600 Haitian-American investors of millions of dollars has pleaded guilty.
Enforcement officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department said Wednesday that their staffs are targeting the role of Wall Street rating agencies in the financial meltdown.
An investment fund manager drew a reduced six-year prison sentence Friday in a $33 million Ponzi scheme that cheated 27 investors in the United States, Germany and Costa Rica.
A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed a request to open a hearing into extending the prison sentence of mortgage broker Nelson Miller, who was convicted in January 2008 of fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.
The Supreme Court appeared inclined Tuesday to limit federal prosecutors' use of a fraud law that has helped win convictions of high-profile corporate executives and public officials, or throw out the law altogether.
An Edmond man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for money laundering.
A store owner pleaded guilty Friday to fraud and theft for keeping a winning multimillion dollar lottery ticket for himself when the real winners brought it in to be validated.
A Kentucky oilman featured on an MTV show about lavish teenage birthday parties has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Nashville on charges of money laundering and securities fraud.
A California businessman has been accused of using bogus financial data to defraud investors who put $60 million into a health care transaction software company he founded.
A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to committing a fraud that netted him more than $20 million from the descendants of a 19th-century industrialist and using the money on personal extravagances including three private jets.
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Australian investors can use U.S. securities law and American courts to sue an Australia-based bank for fraud.
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden is teaming with federal regulators and 26 other states to get tough on foreclosure rescue fraud.
A former security consultant wanted in the U.S. on charges of defrauding a client of more than $2 million was refused bail in a British court Wednesday.
A 45-year-old businesswoman accused of cheating farmers out of at least $27 million in proceeds from grain sales pleaded guilty to mail fraud in what prosecutors have said was the largest scheme of its kind in Missouri history.
Ten more loan-modification firms have agreed to comply with Colorado laws or be barred from doing business in the state.
A gym owner-turned-investment fund manager was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that left investors short $35 million once the fraud unraveled.
A Virginia Beach man faces up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud in connection with a mortgage loan scheme.
Authorities said a Wethersfield, Conn., man has been charged with running a 12-year scheme that defrauded investors of more than $20 million.
A Florida man accused of running a Ponzi scheme that scammed more than $14 million from Haitian-American investors has pleaded guilty.
A Southern New Jersey securities broker who operated a $1.8 million investment fraud scheme has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison.
The collapse of a Bend real estate development company has resulted in charges against 13 people in what prosecutors say is the largest Oregon fraud case to emerge from the national real estate boom and bust.
A federal grand jury in Eugene has indicted 13 people on mortgage and loan fraud charges arising from the collapse of a central Oregon development company.
Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced criminal charges against more than two dozen people accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars from a telephone service for the deaf.
ID Thief Tries to Get Witnesses WhackedPavel Valkovich of Sherman Oaks, CA has pleaded guilty to solicitation of murder, admitting that he attempted to hire hitmen to kill witnesses working with Federal authorities in their investigation of Valkovich's ID theft activities and subsequent crimes.
The Real Reason Behind The Copenhagen Walk-Out:Climategate crashes agendaDeveloping countries have walked out on the Copenhagen climate talks, but one of the primary reasons as to why nations like China and India have boycotted the summit is being hidden by the corporate media – namely the fact that the negotiations were doomed once poorer countries …
Tamiflu anti-viral drug revealed as complete hoax; Roche studies based on scientific fraud A groundbreaking article recently published in the British Medical Journal accuses Roche of misleading governments and physicians over the benefits of Tamiflu. Out of the ten studies cited by Roche, it turns out, only two were ever published in science journals.
Swingin' CopenhagenSo it's come to this. If, and I say if only because it isn't, global warming is a man-made desecration of the planet, the head table of that desecration has been set up this week in Copenhagen under the aegis of stopping the man-made desecration of the planet.
Dentist treated 25 teeth too manyA DENTIST who reconstructed a patient's mouth when the man required work to only three teeth has been ordered to pay more than $345,000 in compensation and interest.
Food sweetener could be 'fuelling' childhood diabetes (Study) The sweetener fructose, a cheap sugar substitute found in thousands of processed foods and soft drinks, may be increasing childhood diabetes and the obesity crisis, new findings suggest.
Senate Proposal Blocks Drugmakers from Mining Pharmacy Records to Track which Doctors are Prescribing their MedicationsDrug companies would no longer be able to mine pharmacy records to track which doctors are prescribing their medications, under a proposal unveiled Thursday by two Senate Democrats.
Menopause, as Brought to You by Big PharmaMILLIONS of American women in the 1990s were told they could help their bodies ward off major illness by taking menopausal hormone drugs. Some medical associations said so. Many gynecologists and physicians said so. Respected medical journals said so, too.
Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics (Study)New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance.
Senator Requests Disclosures from the Medical Industry on Funding from Insurance Co's and Drug and Device Manufacturers Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent letters to 33 influential medical organizations requesting disclosures on funding they receive from drug and device manufacturers and from insurance companies.
WHO Denies Link Between Swine Flu Vaccine and Illnesses, Deaths Adverse reactions to the H1N1 vaccine continue to pour in from around the world. Consider for example: In Canada, GlaxoSmithKline recalled an entire batch of its H1N1 vaccine, Arepanrix, after an unusual number of anaphylactic and other allergic reactions were reported.
Tungsten Filled Gold Bars In Asia « Culture of Life NewsKirby is a popular online analyst in gold markets who is, I think, completely unhinged. His latest rants trying to connect a 100% Chinese fake gold bar scandal to the Rothschilds and the Federal Reserve is typical of conspiracy thinking online.
Judge Blocks Government's Move To Cut ACORN Funding - Congress action was UnconstitutionalNEW YORK — The U.S. government's move this fall to cut off funding to ACORN was unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday, handing the embattled group a legal victory.
Embattled Airline CEO Approved To Spend Holidays With FamilyWINSTON-SALEM -- William Rodgers will be spending the Christmas holiday with his family in Missouri.
Copenhagen's Political ScienceWith the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point.
Beef Supplier Fined For Puny SteaksBOSTON -- Massachusetts officials have fined a Colorado beef supplier $700 for providing steaks to Ruby Tuesday restaurants that allegedly were smaller than their advertised size.
Matt Taibbi: Taibblog : Rolling StoneThis is why I feel betrayed by Obama, I voted for you Mr. President and I expected you to clean up wall street, I hope you are not a one-term President as you still have time to redeem yourself to the American public.
The Reason for 15 Million Unemployed: Poor Thinking at the Top | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNetPoor thinking from the very top down to some greedy CEO's, lobbyists, congressmen and more. Just about all of our problems can be traced to greed but now is the time to not only fix the problem but also prosecute those who committed the fraud and crimes.
'Fake witch' to face court on Christmas EveA Canadian woman is to appear in court on Christmas Eve for posing as a witch in order to defraud a grieving Toronto lawyer, in a case that invokes a century-old law, police said.
Net card fraud tops $82m: Australian Payments Clearing AssociationTHE rate of fraud in credit cards and other payments systems rose by almost 30 per cent in the year to June, driven by an increase in fraudulent use of credit cards on the internet.
Trust Busting By the People, For the PeopleIn the world of private commerce, collecting funds with a promise to provide insurance or retirement benefits and not holding, investing and using the funds for that purpose, but spending every cent on every passing fancy like, say, adventures in reforming governments abroad, wou …
How Fake Sites Trick Search Engines To Hit the TopEven search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
Reports probe Tamiflu benefits, call for clinical data transparencyIn an update of a review on the role of neuraminidase inhibitors in seasonal flu prevention and treatment, the authors reversed a previous conclusion that oseltamivir (Tamiflu) prevents complications like pneumonia in healthy patients because they were unable to reconstruct the d …
WHO: 'Mr Swine Flu' Under Investigation for Gross Conflict of InterestThe man with the nickname "Dr Flu", Professor Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Holland has been named by Dutch media researchers as the person at the center of the worldwide Swine Flu H1N1 Influenza A 2009 pandemic hysteria.
Reckless 'Endangerment' for BreathingHey, you over there, stop breathing so much. You're endangering the rest of us. Or at least that's what the Environmental Protection Agency would have you believe.
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