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On Tuesday Supreme Court Justice Oswell Legall dismissed a lawsuit filed by former PUP Health Minister and Caribbean Shores Area Representative Jose Coye against businessman Alfred Schakron.
Former Victoria investment adviser Ian Thow has been sentenced to nine years in prison for 20 counts of fraud totalling $8 million.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a civil suit against "America's Prophet" Sean David Morton, alleging he lied about using his psychic expertise in investing more than $6 million from investors.
Emma Charlton, who posed as the editor of Vogue in a £160,000 scam was jailed for three years yesterday.
The FBI is hunting for Ishwardat (Danny) Raghunath, a Queens man who went on the lam last week before he could be arrested for masterminding a $7 million mortgage fraud scheme.
Joseph Zant, 66, faces six counts of felony theft and four counts of felony tax evasion in connection with allegations that a New York couple loaned him more than $5M to battle cancer with costly treatments in Bath, England.<
Danieal Kelly, 14, died of neglect. The city had paid a contractor to handle her case. More charges loom.
A Swedish pilot who had been flying on a fake licence for more than a decade was arrested on an aeroplane at Amsterdam's Schipol airport as he prepared to take off with 101 passengers aboard.
The iPhone has an app for everything–even cheaters and liars! TigerText is a texting app that sets up text messages to disappear. The new iPhone app allows text messages to self-destruct and be wiped from the original phone, the receiving p
Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison for leading a massive shakedown scheme that a federal judge called a "betrayal of our city."
They lived in a mansion fitted out with the best antiques and a safe containing nearly half a million pounds in cash. But today Patrick Small and his wife Mary were sent to jail after admitting a £4.6 million tax fraud over 16 years.
Four months after the theft of cash from a Sydney bank by two people posing as security guards, police have gone public with an appeal for information.
Oscar-winning composer Joseph Brooks, raped 11 women he lured to his apartment with the promise of a starring role in a movie, prosecutors said today.
Anthony Stancl, who used the social networking site Facebook to deceive and coerce New Berlin Eisenhower High School students into sexual acts with him in 2008, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and another 13 years of extended supervision.
Cook County Circuit Court clerk Angelo Colon, was sentenced today to three years in prison after pleading guilty to bribery, admitting he took money from a Texas woman and falsely promised her he would pay off a judge to free her husband.
Scotland's Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to explain to MSPs why she asked a court to spare a convicted fraudster from a prison sentence.
ASHBURN, Va. -- When Virginia steakhouse owner Osama El-Atari disappeared last year, he left behind a $3.8 million McMansion, a few splashy sports cars and a bunch of banks that said he cheated them out of about $60 million.
LOS ANGELES -- Former Los Angeles hospital owner Robert Bourseau, was sentenced Monday to more than three years in federal prison for paying kickbacks to recruit patients from among the homeless.
BOSTON -- A doctor accused of faking research for a dozen years in published studies that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers including Vioxx and Celebrex pleaded guilty Monday to one count of federal health care fraud.
THE Wickenby tax investigation has successfully shown impresario Glenn Wheatley's former solicitor, Paul John Gregory, was guilty of conspiring to help the entertainment manager move offshore undeclared profits from a world title boxing match in 2003.<
A California Superior Court jury has found North Carolina woman Tanya Nelson guilty in the bizarre murder of an Orange County fortune teller and her daughter because of a failed love spell.
Bernard Kerik, who was considered as chief of the US Department of Homeland Security, admitted eight charges including filing false tax returns and lying to government officials while being vetted for senior posts.
Neil Ian Leggett, the former managing director of Queensland's first bio-technology company has been jailed over a multi-million-dollar fraud.
The Australian olive oil industry is taking a stand against international oils falsely masquerading as "extra virgin", developing the world's first code of practice for producers.
WICHITA | A Sedgwick County jury on Wednesday convicted Thomas Etheredge, founder of the failed Wild West World theme park, on seven of nine counts of securities fraud.
Denny Hecker, the Minnesota auto magnate whose empire collapsed, was indicted Wednesday on federal conspiracy, fraud and money laundering charges in an alleged scheme to defraud lenders and others of millions.
Under investigation by the FBI and local authorities for the past two years, former Port Authority Chairman Tony Nelson, pleaded not guilty Monday to 44 counts of bribery, mail fraud, money laundering, lying to the FBI and conspiracy to commit all of t
An Anuradhapura Prison jailor who had taken Rs.150,000 as a bribe to get three prisoners who were to be released under the Presidential Pardon on the occasion of Independence Day, released, was arrested yesterday by a team of officials from the Bribery
Mumbai: A doctor from a Byculla hospital and its trustee have been convicted and sentenced to one year in jail by a special anti-corruption court for offering bribe to a government doctor to fudge a postmortem report in 2003.
Dongfan "Greg" Chung, an ex-Boeing Co (BA.N) engineer, found guilty in 2009 of passing space shuttle secrets to China in America's first conviction under a 1996 espionage law, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The guilty verdict against Ali Dizaei shows the Metropolitan Police Force can be less scared about racially sensitive issues
Four police officers will face disciplinary action over a fake heist on a Queensland chemist. The officers from Coomera police station allegedly dressed as bandits and staged a prank robbery at a chemist under surveillance by fellow officers.
73-year-old man was attacked with a truncheon after he opened his door to bogus police officers. Two men knocked on the front window of the man's home in Stockport, and said they were investigating a spate of burglaries.
Roberta Blackwell Walter, a former teacher at Beaumont Junior High School in Lexington, will spend a week in jail and 90 days in home incarceration for molesting two teenage students more than 30 years ago.
For three decades, former West Allis swim coach Daniel Acker befriended boys from broken homes, gained their trust and sexually assaulted them, according to prosecutors.
Disgraced TV journalist Dominic Carter was arrested and charged 13 years ago for hitting, choking and threatening his wife and then growled "I am not your boy!" at cops who busted him.
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been charged in a fresh corruption indictment that contains racketeering and attempted extortion of the US Presidential chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
AUSTRALIA - VICTORIA POLICE have launched a formal investigation into allegations of bribery and corruption at the redevelopment of the Mercy Hospital site in East Melbourne.
El Paso, Texas - Suspended state judge Manuel Barraza has been found guilty in federal court on three counts. He was found guilty of two counts of wire fraud and one count of false statement to federal officials.
Scott Anthony Walker, an ex-Australian Army soldier has been jailed for nine months in the US for his role in a $US900,000 Afghanistan security contract kickback scandal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana broadcaster and former Hoosiers player Todd Leary has been arrested on felony charges in connection with what authorities say was a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.
Jaisankar Marimuthu pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and aggravated identity-theft charges related to an international fraud scheme to hack into online brokerage accounts in the U.S. and use them to manipulate stock prices.
The four Members of Parliament charged with expenses fraud will be able to claim legal aid. The three MPs and one peer each face a maximum jail sentence of seven years, meaning that they will be entitled to taxpayer assistance to fight the charges.
EW YORK/ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - New York's attorney general charged Bank of America Corp, former Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis and former Chief Financial Officer Joe Price with fraud for allegedly misleading shareholders.
Ex-money manager Alberto Vilar and his business partner Gary Tanaka were sentenced to prison terms Friday after they were convicted in 2008 of bilking investors out of millions of dollars.
PAUL Hogan's reputation could be destroyed if allegations made by authorities of tax fraud are revealed to the public, the High Court heard this morning.
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has won a High Court judgment for £2.3 million against Cameron Poole, a financial director who allegedly embezzled its funds.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Timothy Syed Andersson billed himself as dermatologist to the stars. Andersson, known to his patients as Dr. Syed, had a wall of photos at his home office in San Francisco's Lakeshore district, showing him with celebrities.
Police officer Sgt Dalvan Dawkins has been charged as part of a investigation into an alleged £85,000 bank fraud.
Karl Woodgett, a university registrar who offered forged degrees to two women in return for spanking sessions has been given a suspended jail sentence.
Jaspreet Singh, who said he was set alight by assailants near his home last month accidentally burned himself while torching his car for an insurance claim, police allege.
Chicago alderman, Isaac Carothers has pleaded guilty to bribery and tax fraud charges and resigned his seat.
A Queensland police officer has been stood down from duty after raids in Brisbane and the Gold Coast in south-east Queensland yesterday.
A federal grand jury is investigating whether a former United States Democratic presidential candidate used donated campaign funds to cover-up an affair and an illegitimate child.
Ecorse Mayor Herbert Worthy pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit bribery in connection with an investigation into pay-for-play politics at City Hall.
Abraham Shakespeare, who won $17 million (£10.6 million) on a Florida lottery has been found buried, nine months after he went missing, police have said.
Christopher Parrish and Joseph M. Brown, former Chesterfield officials, have filed court papers to plead guilty to theft charges accusing them of defrauding their central Indiana town.
Zubair Ansari and Sharif Uddin, two post-graduate students who carried out an elaborate scam selling "clocked" cars have been jailed.
Michael George Vidal who fleeced his parents and employers out of almost $2 million and killed an elderly woman while driving at high speed, has been jailed for 13 years.
Paul Rajendran, who posed as a lingerie marketing executive has been found guilty of raping a 23-year-old woman in a Sydney office block.
Debbie Miller will be sentenced March eighth for trying to get a half-million-dollars from a restaurant by putting a rat in her meal, and saying the cooks did it.
DENVER - 53-year-old Kyle Gregory Speed of Colorado Springs, was sentenced last week by to serve 97 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
Michele Jean Blythe, a 30-year-old Salem woman was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty in court Tuesday to charges related to making fake checks.
DeDan Milton, a former aide to ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was arraigned Monday in federal court on bribery and extortion charges.
LOS ANGELES — A former Thai tourism official and her daughter have been indicted on charges that they accepted bribes from a Los Angeles filmmaking couple in exchange for running the Bangkok International Film Festival
RIVERSIDE — Robert A. Forman, an ex-cop convicted of forcing a woman to perform a sex act to avoid being arrested is slated to be sentenced today in Riverside.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—Two guards, Daniel Lindini and Ralph Contreras are headed to prison following their convictions in the beating death of a Bakersfield jail inmate.
A Chinese couple who made a fortune helping immigrants from their homeland stay in the UK illegally using hundreds of fake university documents were jailed today.
Abu Dhabi police have arrested seven men for plotting to defraud the UAE central bank of 7.2 billion euros ($10.17 billion) using false documents, the state news agency WAM said on Saturday.
Monica Patricia Moss, a partially blind and deaf grandmother was sentenced to at least six months in jail yesterday for defrauding the Australian welfare system of almost $200,000 over 19 years.
George Tannous, who claims his house started weeping oil and ash following the death of his teenage son has been charged with credit card fraud.
A carer for the intellectually disabled was jailed yesterday for social security fraud. Robyn Kaye Newton received $50,379 in social security payments for which she wasn't entitled.
Burglars broke into a police officer's home at Mitchell Place, Parkinson, and stole several items, including a reflecting police vest, a Queensland Police Service hat badge, two police name tags and eight police shirts.
NAPLES, Italy, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A Naples official orchestrated a disability pension fraud that may have steered $1.4 million to healthy pensioners, Italian police said.
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- A Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. sales executive and a former U.S. Secret Service officer were among 22 officials at companies that supply law enforcement and the military who were charged with violating U.S. anti-bribery laws.
It began as a fairy tale: A heroic fighter pilot in Afghanistan falls in love with a suburban chiropractor. But the story soon turned into a nightmare "I was very happy, I thought here's a very handsome man, and I've hit the jackpot," Liselotte Schuste
BEIJING — A Chinese court sentenced former top supreme court judge Huang Songyou, to life in prison on Tuesday for taking bribes and other graft charges.
WAUKESHA, Wis. — A former member of the Brothers of the Holy Cross religious order who later became a Catholic priest pleaded guilty Friday and was convicted of sexually assaulting two boys in the Elm Grove area, one in the 1970s & 80s.
NEWARK—A former Jersey City Housing Department employee was indicted today on charges in connection with his acceptance of $50,000 in corrupt cash payments.
Nelli Kellaway, a benefits cheat who swindled nearly £60,000 spent the money on going to Russia to have breast enlargements.
KOTA BAHARU, Jan 13 (Bernama) -- A magistrate was charged in the Sessions Court here today with two counts of accepting bribes from a man as an inducement to reduce sentence in October last year
PORT ANGELES -- More than $500,000 has been stolen from the Clallam County Treasurer's Office dating back to 2004, an ongoing investigation by the state Auditor's Office revealed. The investigation so far has focused solely o
To his patients and clients, Russell Oakes was a trusted doctor and vet who dedicated his life to their welfare.
He boasted of his qualifications and credentials, charging large sums of money for his services.
Former Miami-Dade Judge Phillip Davis, who once won acquittal in a notorious bribery case, will be sentenced Friday for looting county grant money intended to help the inner-city poor.
Miko Dion Wady has been accused of swindling $25 million (£15.6 million) from investors to promote MARIAH CAREY and BARBRA STREISAND shows - which were never set to take place.
Former Miami-Dade Judge Phillip Davis, who once won acquittal in a notorious bribery case, will be sentenced Friday for looting county grant money intended to help the inner-city poor.
A liar and con man who cultivated his victims before he financially took advantage of them. That's how one prosecutor described Robert Anthony Ceccarelli, 35, of Atwater, convicted last year of running a Ponzi scheme which bilked about a dozen people o
Former Stoughton police detective Arlindo Romeiro, admitted in federal court yesterday that he lied to FBI agents during an investigation into alleged police corruption and has promised to help authorities in the probe, which appears to be widening.
Convicted sex offender Michael W. McBride, who left his Charlestown residence
earlier this year without notifying the authorities and was arrested in
Florida has been sentenced to three years in a federal prison.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago man Michael Zabrin has pleaded guilty to swindling at least 250 people out of more than $1 million through the online sale of counterfeit prints advertised as the work of Pablo Picasso and other major contemporary artists.<
Hyderabad: A year after the arrest of Satyam’s founder B Ramalinga Raju, the multi-crore accounting fraud case is all set for trial. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the scam through a multi-disciplinary investigation team (MDIT
A new complaint has been filed against former senior police officer Mr SPS Rathore who was convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl in India's northern Haryana state.
Bobby DeLaughter, the prosecutor who secured the conviction in the infamous Medgar Evers Mississippi murder case, is himself now headed to prison.
MORE THAN 1,000 people are being pursued through the courts by Irelands Department of Social and Family Affairs as part of a crackdown on social welfare fraud.
Huang Songyou, one of China's former top judges will be tried for taking up to four million yuan ($A652,000) in bribes, in one of the nation's most high-profile graft cases, the state press says.
CHENNAI: Citing high incidence of documentation fraud, Australian authorities have refused admission to one-third of the Indian students who applied between July and October.
Philip Heggie, an 18-year-old Brisbane student has been charged with defrauding Queensland's biggest bank of $2 million in a case that has set off alarm bells about online banking security.
Indicted investment manager Eric Bartoli, on the run for 10 years, is accused of cheating a new group of investors out of millions of dollars. In part because federal authorities have failed to bring him to trial on earlier charges of scamming retirees
An Alameda telecommunications company will pay $3 million in criminal fines and civil penalties to settle government accusations that it bribed officials in China and other Asian countries, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday.<
Constable Horace Roberts, the policeman, who was said to be the head of a robbery ring targeting returning residents in Kingston, was slapped with a sentence of 191 years for gun-related and robbery charges when he appeared in the Supreme Court yest
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kohlberg Capital Corp has been sued by a Michigan investor who said the investment company taken public in 2006 by a firm affiliated with buyout specialist Jerome Kohlberg fraudulently misstated the value of its portfolio.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rocco DeSimone, whom prosecutors call a "habitual con man" heads to trial next week on charges that he duped investors by claiming access to deep-pocketed business connections.
NEW DELHI: A 21-year-old Mysore-based engineering student Neha N has developed a cellphone application that can tell real currency notes apart from their fake counterparts.
NEW DELHI — A Kafkaesque tale of crime, suicide and corruption has appalled India over the last week, causing outrage even in a country long accustomed to the transgressions of those in power.
Harris County Criminal Court-at-Law Judge Donald Wayne Jackson who propositioned a DWI defendant hours after she appeared in his courtroom was sentenced to 30 days in jail Monday.
Edgardo Storni, a former Roman Catholic archbishop in Argentina has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing a young seminarian while still in office.
Michael Anthony Olivas, a 35-year-old former loss prevention officer at the J.C. Penney store in the Westfield Capital mall will be sentenced in Olympia on Jan. 21 after pleading guilty this month to two counts of voyeurism.
Anthony Garduno, a Riverside County pastor who was shot in a recent robbery at his church has been arrested on suspicion of selling drugs and keeping a
Albert Gonzalez, a Miami based hacker who stole tens of millions of credit and debit cards pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy.
"Reckless," "arrogant" and "criminal" were words used by County Common Pleas Judge John M. Solovan II in sentencing Barry Carpenter following his November conviction in a scandal involving a surrogate mother for the children of Hollywood stars Sarah<
National Fraud Unit investigators raid Shlomi Lahiani's home, office; court remands him for 24 hours. Suspicions include administrative irregularities, breach of trust and tax evasion.
DUBAI-- Dubai's ruler issued Tuesday a new law imposing tougher sentences of up to 20 years in jail for those convicted of defrauding the government of funds as it seeks to continue its clampdown on corporate crime.
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian prosecutors are filing fraud charges against a police officer who had complained on YouTube of abuse and corruption in the law enforcement system.
The arrests of judges Michael T. Conahan and Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. on Jan. 26 cast doubt on thousands of court cases, plunged the already undermanned Luzerne County bench into chaos and signaled the beginning of a rash of corruption prosecutions that
Sydney-based Pacific Publishing Group was fined $8000 in the Beaudesert Magistrates Court this week for running a false billing scam following an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading this year.
Shaun Gregory Morgan, a New Zealander posing as an international banker has been jailed for a multi-million dollar fraud in the United States.
An online sexual predator who flew over to Western Australia from interstate was caught climbing into a child's window after he engaged the victim on the internet.
Rajina Subramaniam, a suburban wife with an alleged taste for the high life that has left her accused of the nation's biggest ever one-person fraud.
CALDWELL - Nampa woman Rachele Bromley who pleaded guilty to felony charges of inducing a minor into prostitution and aiding and abetting the sexual battery of a minor was handed down a sentence of two years fixed and eight years indeterminate at the C
Terry Lee Shields, an Orange County school bus driver convicted of molesting and taking pornographic photographs of young girls was sentenced Thursday to 151 years to life in prison, authorities said.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The two parents that pulled the balloon boy hoax in hopes of securing a reality TV deal were sentenced to jail Wednesday.
90 days for the father, 20 days for the mother.
ALBANY—-Former state Supreme Court justice Thomas J. Spargo will spend 27 months in federal prison after being convicted of attempted extortion and soliciting a bribe.
The head of an Orthodox Jewish sect was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for a tax evasion and money-laundering scheme that continued over a decade, spanned two continents, and cost taxpayers millions of dollars in lost revenue, authorities said
Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son is going to prison for a mere one to three years for looting his late mother's $185 million fortune.
An Iraqi court has jailed a former deputy minister of transport for eight years after anti-corruption forces caught him taking a bribe, Iraq's Integrity Commission said on Sunday.
For many years, Daniel W. Presgraves, the former sheriff of Page County, struck a lot of folks here as cocky.
Kyle Donnell Worley, 51, of Vancouver, Wash., was arrested Tuesday and charged with trying to lure a 14yr old girl to have sex with him and sending obscene video to her.
Paul A. Calvan, a convicted child molester, who was arrested Saturday night after allegedly videotaping women in changing rooms at the Fair Oaks Mall, hanged himself in the Fairfax County jail early Monday, Fairfax police said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON - Rakesh Jyoti Saran has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Texas court and ordered to pay $68 million in restitution for his involvement in an elaborate rogue internet pharmacy scheme.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Maurice Morris, a former Riviera Beach K-9 officer has been convicted of attempted sexual battery, bribery and official misconduct.
Constable Ashwingiri Meghnathi, arrested last week by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on bribery charges — committed suicide on Saturday — accusing BJP corporator Babu Ahir of trying to frame him.
The three veteran Chicago police officers in a little-known unit dedicated to cracking down on phony cops have hundreds of stories of people posing as police officers. The tales range from clever and sophisticated to stupidly brazen.
The deputy mayor of Kabul Wahibuddin Sadat, has been arrested for allegedly misusing his authority by awarding a contract without competition.
Police have dusted off an old chapter of the Canadian Criminal Code and charged Vishwantee Persaud with posing as a witch, allegedly to defraud a Toronto lawyer of more than $100,000.
When the Bear River Health Department was broken into early Monday, the perpetrators apparently were looking for one thing and one thing only: vials of urine.
SAN ANTONIO — To the federal government, the $9.6 million in cash that military contractors gave then-Army Maj. John L. Cockerham was nothing less than bribery.
A young woman who admitted that she stole a baby from a hospital to hide an abortion from her boyfriend was arrested Wednesday, and the baby has been reunited with her family.
Stephen E. Quick, 31, and Samantha Light, 25, who ran a baby-sitting service out of their home videotaped themselves performing sex acts with children, some as young as 2 months old, police said.
He once graced the society pages of local newspapers, but on Tuesday, Attorney Scott Rothstein was arrested on federal fraud charges, accused of running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.
Terry Shields, an Orange County school bus driver was convicted today of molesting and taking pornographic photos of three girls aged 5, 7, and 11.
DETROIT, Nov. 30 - James R. Rosendall, a Detroit waste company officer was fined and sentenced to prison Monday in a bribery and corruption scandal that touched City Hall, authorities said.
DETROIT — A judge ordered an 11-month prison sentence Monday for a man who approved bribes to win a Detroit sludge contract but later helped federal authorities convict the wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers in the same corruption probe.
BEIJING — Wu Xiaoqing, an ex-judge charged with taking bribes from gangsters committed suicide in his cell over the weekend in central China, a local government spokesman said.
South Australian police have smashed two corruption rings within the state's Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure (DTEI), with 32 people charged.
Thomas Greco Jr., a former executive with Cleveland's county-owned hospital has been charged with bribery and extortion in a public corruption investigation.
Jeffrey Tesler, a British high street solicitor laundered "huge sums of money" in bribes to Nigeria via accounts in Switzerland and Monaco, an extradition hearing was told today.
Keith L. Hughes, 39, former coordinator of the DeKalb pretrial services and Natalie Nicole Dunn, 33, were convicted in U.S Disctrict Court on one count each of conspiracy to commit extortion under the color of official right.
PORTLAND, Ore. — 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.
Former policeman Stephen Spellacy and Insurance company manager John Taylor who funded a lavish lifestyle with money obtained from a £1.4m fraud, have been jailed.
Private detective Kevin Halligen, whose company was paid up to £500,000 from publicly donated funds to find Madeleine McCann has been charged with fraud.
The former director of Cobo Center Efstathios Louis Pavledes, will serve 14 months in prison and two years probation for his role in a bribery scheme involving a contractor.
German police have arrested a number of people suspected of fixing matches in major European soccer leagues. The arrests, in Germany and abroad, came as part of an investigation into match-fixing supported by UEFA, according to a statement by the prose
Robert Kahre, owner of six construction-related businesses in Las Vegas, was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison today. Kahre paid employees more than $100 million in cash wages as part of an elaborate scheme to defraud the IRS.
SINGAPORE — Shi Ming Yi, a high-living Buddhist monk who ran one of Singapore's most well-known charities was Saturday jailed for 10 months for fraud, court officials said.
A jury convicted former Lorain County Commissioner Michael Ross of all 19 charges he had faced in his public corruption trial. Judge Judith Cross said she was “99.9 percent sure” she would sentence Ross to prison.
Joy Jackson, a Maryland woman who stole millions from Washington area homeowners trying to avoid foreclosure is a "vulture" whose case should serve as a warning to other con artists, a federal judge said yesterday before imposing a sentence of more tha
David A. Eichelberger Jr., the former police chief of the Prince George's County town of Morningside was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury on charges of selling a stolen handgun.
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Hsu Shian-ming, a 55-year old con artist was arrested on Saturday for conducting elaborate schemes to swindle around NT$200 million from 20 female victims and tricking them into performing sex acts with him.
Prosecutors called former Louisiana congressman William Jefferson's corruption the most extensive in the history of Congress. His punishment delivered a similar message.
Evangelist Tony Alamo should spend the rest of his life in prison after an Arkansas judge sentenced him to 175 years Friday on charges that included taking minors across state lines for sex.
Bobby DeLaughter made history as a young prosecutor who put away a notorious civil rights-era assassin. The case became the subject of books and a movie, and put DeLaughter on a path to becoming a Mississippi judge.
Several of the child "wives" who helped convict evangelist Tony Alamo of federal sex charges were expected to return to the witness stand on Friday during his sentencing hearing.
Lawrence Emilio Maschino posed as a Silicon Valley arts entrepreneur fat with stock, a heart surgeon who began his Harvard education at age 13, and the owner of a Florida McDonald's who, although penniless, drove off a car lot in a new Jaguar.
Opening statements are slated to begin Thursday in the first of two corruption trials for Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, the first African-American woman to lead the city.
Former Jefferson County Commissioner Mary Buckelew will be sentenced today, one in a spate of coming sentencings involving three of Alabama's highest profile public corruption cases in several years.
Prosecutors are seeking the harshest prison sentence ever handed out to a member of Congress for former Rep. William Jefferson, arguing that his “stunning betrayal of public trust” warrants a life sentence for the longtime lawmaker.
Malik Snell, a former Philadelphia police officer convicted of robbing a drug dealer and participating in a home invasion was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison.
Abdullah Toksoz, a gambling cheat and expert at card marking had been locked out from every casino in the UK before being jailed for using bogus ID at the tables to win thousands of pounds.
Dozens of retired public school teachers knew Robert Sturman as the financial adviser who for years had astutely handled their life savings. But Sturman had turned con man, stealing at least $4.6 million and maybe up to $7 million,
President Hamid Karzai promised to stamp out corruption. The image suggested otherwise. Standing at Karzai's side on Tuesday were his two vice presidents — both former warlords widely believed to have looted Afghanistan for years.
JPMorgan Securities will cough up or forego receipt of more than $720 million to settle an SEC complaint about the Jefferson County sewer bond fiasco that left the county on the verge of bankruptcy.
Naked man Sun Meng climbed out of a window and hid on the ledge to escape his lover's husband
Texas county has indicted a store clerk for allegedly stealing a winning $1 million lottery ticket, but the state lottery commission tells the original buyer that it considers the clerk to be the winner and won't pay up.
Lucknow, Nov 2 (IANS) K.M. Tripathi, a senior railway officer who was arrested here Saturday by the Central Bureau of Investigation while accepting a bribe of Rs.70,000 has been placed under suspension, an official said Monday.
Jakarta - An Indonesian court on Tuesday played wiretapped recordings of phone conversations allegedly discussing a plot to frame two top anti-corruption commissioners in a case that has implicated senior government officials.
Eight Washington State Patrol troopers who used diplomas from fake schools to get pay raises will be suspended, but not fired. Friday’s announcement prompted one local legislator to complain that the troopers are getting a slap on the wrist.
SCHOOL students are swapping tips on the internet on how to cheat in the HSC by smuggling in notes on phones and MP3 players.
Professor David Eastwood, former chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council, billed the taxpayer £920 last year. The previous year he claimed £855.
Laqad Yacoob, A benefits officer who admitted falsely claiming over £75,000 has been jailed for 14 months at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.
A jury found Mayor Larry Langford of Alabama's biggest city, Birmingham, guilty on all 60 counts in a federal corruption trial on Wednesday
Bill Allen helped put several high profile Alaska politicians behind bars and will soon likely land there himself.
Northeastern Pennsylvania school board member Brian Dunn was charged as part of a wide-ranging corruption probe and has agreed to plead guilty to a federal bribery charge.
Stewart D. Nozette, the Chevy Chase scientist accused last week of attempted espionage, pleaded guilty in January to overbilling NASA and the Defense Department more than $265,000 for contracting work, according to court records unsealed Friday.
Cedar Falls, Ia. — A federal judge has sentenced Rasim Causevic, a Bosnian immigrant who lived in Cedar Falls to eight months in prison for lying to immigration officials about his arrest in the murder of a fellow soldier in the former Yugoslavia
Nearly two dozen people were hospitalized and three people died after participating in a retreat at a Sedona, Ariz., sweat lodge.
Alaska — Federal prosecutors say Bill Allen, the former chief executive of a company that did construction work for oil companies should be sentenced to nearly four years in prison for offering bribes in exchange for favorable legislation.
JODHPUR: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) allegedly caught a police constable red-handed for taking bribe, Earlier, the constable had harassed many innocent people by threatening to implicate them in the case during investigation.
The second-largest money-transferring company in the United States was ordered to pay US$18-million to victims who were allegedly "scammed by crooks working out of Canada."
James Tait, who filmed his friend suffering fatal injuries while having sex with a horse four years ago is facing fresh charges of bestiality.
Julian Matthias Buchwald, a convicted kidnapper who subjected his girlfriend to a six-day naked bush ordeal and fled Australia to escape justice disguised as an Indian has received more jail time.
Stephen Burnel, a paedophile who was on the run abroad for more than two years has been jailed after being returned to the UK.
Rohan James Wyllie, who established a sophisticated network of peepholes and cameras to spy on his flatmates has escaped a jail sentence after police were unable to crack an encryption code on his home computer.
A LEADING Brisbane private girls' school has been rocked by a cheating scandal after a group of students was caught just weeks before graduation.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Mayor Larry Langford, who could be tossed out of office and go to prison if convicted of federal bribery charges, recently offered some advice to a new Birmingham City Council member.
John Arthur Drusts, a convicted sex offender who was arrested last year after witnesses said he tried to snatch a 4-year-old girl from Santa Cruz Catholic Church was convicted Friday of unlawful imprisonment, a misdemeanor.
Michael Riolo, A Florida money manager was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Friday for orchestrating a Ponzi fraud scheme that took in $44 million.
Joshua David Lowe, A former Polk County jailer convicted of severely beating a restrained inmate was sentenced Thursday by a federal judge in Rome to serve 21 months in prison.
Sholom Rubashkin asked an employee to produce an "extremely large" number of fake sales records in May 2008, the same month federal immigration agents raided the plant.
A woman's call to 911. A gunshot. Then, a second person picks up the phone. "Things aren't good," the voice says. "My name is Lance McLellan and I just shot my wife."
David “Jerry” Dominelli, whose elaborate Ponzi scheme shook San Diego society to its core in the 1980s and brought down a mayor, has died.
A convicted child molester will stand trial for allegedly possessing child pornography and methamphetamine, a case that could send Richard Nash to prison for the rest of his life.
New South Wales paramedics say their colleagues have tampered with vials of an addictive painkiller, putting patients across the state at risk.
More than 1,200 Harris County DWI convictions will be set aside and the cases revisited, prosecutors said Friday after the sentencing of Deetrice Wallace, a Department of Public Safety contractor who faked inspections of alcohol breath testing devices.
James Gonzalez, a Fort Hood soldier whose feigned cross-border ransom and kidnapping drew national attention was sentenced Friday to three years in prison and was stripped of all Army pay and benefits.
Fraudster Xiang Li, who helped pocket £200,000 using an actor to play Birmingham MP Jacqui Smith when she was Home Secretary was jailed for four-and-a-half years yesterday.
Putnam County District Attorney Adam Levy Monday announced the arrest of Andrew DeStefano who was charged with Offering a False instrument for Filing in the Second Degree and a violation of New York State Election Law.
A federal grand jury accused Gregory Podlucky, the former CEO of a defunct soft-drink-maker and four others connected to the company of perpetrating an $806 million bank fraud.
ROY HIGGS—The founder and chairman of Earthly Mineral Solutions, Inc., was sentenced on fraud charges in connection with a scheme to sell $18,000,000 mineral rights to investors.
Former junior hockey team owner Randy Gumbley will spend the next year under house arrest after he defrauded nine young hockey players of more than $90,000 for a school that didn't exist and participate in a league that never played a game.
A Bronx judge sentenced Christopher Perino, a former NYPD detective to four months behind bars for committing perjury during the attempted murder trial of a man he had arrested.
Stephen Robert Lynn, 48, who worked as a magician at children's parties -- and was convicted of sexually assaulting five boys locally in 2004, and also did jail time in California -- now faces similar charges in northern Ontario.
Charles Lee Hatton Jr., who is a registered sex offender, will spend 10 months in prison for following a young girl and a female security officer into the bathroom at the Tri-County Mall and then trying to watch them use the facilities.
Corey Stinefast 27, Jose Carlos Garcia 22, Neal Maschke 40 and Mark McGill, 24 were arrested in a Chicago-area child pornography sting, the FBI announced Monday.
Convicted serial rapist Victor Lamar Davis of Vacaville was sentenced to life in prison this morning in Solano County Superior Court.
When George Joseph England, who has served three years in prison for molesting three girls - and kept another girl as his sex slave for years - appears before a parole board on Monday, Orange County prosecutors plan to fight his release.
Celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander was sentenced to 59 years to life in prison Monday afternoon for sexually assaulting seven young women and girls he enticed with the promise of modeling jobs.
American Gabe Watson, dubbed the honeymoon killer, will be free to return to the US once he has served a jail sentence in Queensland. Alabama's attorney-general says he could be charged with murder and ultimately face the death penalty.
Andrew Wetherall, director of the global accountancy firm KPMG was jailed for four years yesterday after trying to buy his second wife happiness with more than £500,000 in fraudulent expenses.
Abdool Hamuth who stole £72,000 from patient who had Alzheimer's disease has been jailed for three-and-a-half-years.
Yitty Shteierman, 43, has been indicted on charges she stole more than $270,000 from two people by offering a phony house deed as her share for business ventures and to cover loans, authorities said yesterday.
STUDENTS at prestigious Catholic boys St Stanislaus College school were hypnotised into having sex with teachers, a court heard yesterday.
Arthur Kissel, 56, who helped his bogus-doctor wife run a surgery eluded prosecution for 10 years while working in a Toronto medical office.
Kissel was extradited yesterday and pleaded guilty to mail and health-care fraud and conspiracy.
Duncan James Ryan, 48, admitted Tuesday that he defrauded Carole Ferrari of $7,800 in July 2008 after portraying himself as a labour lawyer for Air Canada who had connections in the Canada Revenue Agency that could help resolve a tax issue.
Aberdeenshire woman Marie O’Brien was part of a 11-strong criminal gang who conspired to cheat the public purse and defraud HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in a nationwide £2million VAT fraud.
Another former Roman Catholic priest has been extradited to the UK from the US to face allegations of sexually abusing young boys up to 50 years ago.
ABINGTON - Josh Brennan opened up his e-mail two weeks ago and turned pale. He called over his wife, Jenni. It was about their baby. A con artist was using their 9-month-old son’s photo in an online adoption scam.
A group of women were allegedly wronged by the same two-timing, con-artist cheat. With no way of getting even by legal means they decided to really stick it to him.
Jennifer Day, 34, who made the false allegation against former boyfriend Andrew Saxby after a row, was told by the judge that she had undermined efforts to treat genuine rape victims fairly and sympathetically.
KENT COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – Police in Kent County say that more women have come forward saying they gave their personal information to a Craigslist con.
Thomas Coelho, a 40-year-old St. Petersburg ticket broker, has left behind a trail of legal and financial carnage in five states.
An elderly widow was robbed of her life savings by a three con men, one of whom talked her into going into the backyard of her Blandon home while the others snuck inside and took her safe.
The vulnerable 76-year-old victim who lost his life savings was targeted over the telephone as a mystery caller rang to say that his bank account number was being changed and a woman courier would be visiting his Paisley home to collect his cash card.<
49−year−old Thomas Parkin was arrested this week for masquerading around as his deceased mother so he could cash in on her Social Security payments and stay in his $2.2 million brownstone, prosecutors alleged this week.
The federal government announced indictments of 53 people allegedly involved in a Medicare $50 million fraud scheme in Detroit, a day after charging eight others in Miami suspected of running a similar $100 million fraud.
After Charles Pruenca’s first arrest in his wide-ranging scam. His would-be bride slapped his face, called him despicable and dumped him in a bank parking lot after he admitted to swindling her former boss out of more than $435,000.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Police in Boca Raton, Fla., say Michael Esposito posed as a theatrical producer in an attempt to con $50,000 out of a woman he met turtle watching.
Evil fraudster David Adams, who spent more than 15 years conning an elderly couple out of tens of thousands of pounds has finally been jailed.
Shirley Sue Urich, who scammed dozens of people out of thousands of dollars by spinning convincing but phony sob stories was sentenced to 29 months in prison.
Calgary police are looking for convicted con man Duncan James Ryan, who is accused of defrauding a woman of more than $25,000.
Insurance fraud in the UK is increasing as the finance cruch bites harder so at least one insurance company has introduced "cognitive interviewing" to weed out the liars and cheats.
Rakhi Shahi, 31, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud, handling criminal property and immigration offences at Isleworth Crown Court, in London.
TAINAN, Taiwan. A cartel of fake doctors were hired to work part-time shifts and emergency rooms in Central and Southern Taiwan.
A WOMAN left near to financial ruin after conman Wayne Gouveia fleeced her out of almost £14,000 watched yesterday as he was ordered to pay back a token £10.
Marie McKeown who fleeced a lover for £300,000 claiming she needed it for cancer treatment is out of jail - and up to her old tricks.
She thought he was kind and sincere - and about to sign off a business deal that would secure their future.
But an Auckland woman has been left broke and devastated after the man she met through a dating agency scammed her out of $60,000.
Illegal immigrants, Jatinder Sharma, 44, Neelam Sharma, 39 and Rakhi Shahi, 32, from India have been accused of running a 'fraud factory' by submitting hundreds of bogus visa applications to the Home Office and allowing foreign nationals to enter Brita
Washington, D.C., May 21, 2009 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a trader from Fort Myers, Fla., with fraud for writing and disseminating a fake press release that, when reported in the media, caused a company's stock price to soar
A SHOCKED couple told last night how their sister-in-law, Fiona Gibson, stole tens of thousands of pounds from them to fund a lavish lifestyle with her secret lover.
Max Heslehurst, a greedy fraudster who ripped off dozens of Waikato people has been jailed for almost four years but one victim is "gutted" his sentence is so short.
ALBANY — Colonie woman, Anna Marie Ray described by prosecutors as a “classic con artist” has been sentenced to as many as 10 years in prison for scamming more than $200,000 from victims, including her own disabled son.
Monmouth County stockbroker Maxwell B. Smith, already accused of mail fraud, was charged Friday with money laundering and securities fraud for allegedly swindling $10 million from at least 13 investors, most of whom were elderly.
PARLIAMENT descended into high farce today in Tasmania after the word lying was banned in the Lower House. Acting speaker Brenton Best ruled that no member of the Tasmanian Parliament could use the words liar, lie or lying anywhere within the House.
Simon Odoni and Richard Pope have been named as the masterminds of a £60m 'boiler room' scam to cheat investors out of their money.
A federal judge sentenced Nancy Jean Siegel to 400 months in prison for killing an elderly Reisterstown man and stuffing his body in a steamer trunk. A decades-long gambling addiction led her to con friends and family out of $ hundreds of thousand
Joyce Marie Simmons went from running a Snow Cone stand to becoming the tax-refund queen of Polytechnic Heights, acquiring a strip center valued at $860,000 and driving a $78,000 BMW.
Michael Macaluso, a Marietta chiropractor and former martial arts instructor has been indicted on sex charges for allegedly enticing teenage boys to send him pictures of themselves naked and threatening two boys if they didn’t continue to send hi
Myron Kylen Nelson, who recruited homeless people to cash stolen checks was sentenced to 37 months in prison yesterday and ordered to make full restitution of $65,071.32
Albania Deleon has been placed on the EPA most wanted list after failing to show at her sentencing hearing last month. Deleon was convicted of fraud last year for selling fake certificates for asbestos removal training to illegal immigrants.
The pioneering scheme starts this month and sex offenders will have to submit to compulsory polygraphs as part of their parole conditions. Dramatic results have shown offenders revealing up to 14 times more information under lie detector examination.
John Sung Park 29 has been discovered cheating at poker in a Las Vegas Casino, unfortunately for John he was supposed to have died in a spear fishing incident last September.
Eight parents and teachers have been jailed on state secret charges after using hi-tech communication devices to help pupils cheat in college entrance exams.
A probe into the accounting fraud in Satyam Computer has given CBI enough reason to believe that the scam involves a much bigger amount, close to Rs 9,600 crore (US $1.8 Billion), than what was disclosed by the IT company's founder Ramalinga Raju.
Murder charges have now been filed against five San Francisco men previously accused of plotting to sell the $1 million home of an elderly Palm Springs man and loot his accounts of Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars.
James Smith, 48, illegally claimed almost £35,000 in benefits before an anonymous tip-off led investigators to discover his claims that he struggled to walk 65ft (20m) were false when he was caught pushing cars around his scrapyard.
Charles Nolon Bush, 69, who launched a $35-million Ponzi scheme in 1998 and bought a mansion with a private golf course in Kitsap after stealing millions from investors was sentenced to 30 years in prison, according to the US Attorney's Office.
Authorities have arrested Jarome Feldman, accused of running a bogus online organ transplant service that duped very ill people out of as much as $400,000. A scam that led to the death of Canadian man who was had paid $70,000 for a liver.
More charges have been filed against a woman and man linked to charity scams that bilked the elderly out of thousands, police said.
Acqunetta Lee, 33, and Clarence Lee, 53, were charged with theft of $20,000 to $100,000.
William Middleton who is accused of killing his nine-month-old baby was also accused of crying "crocodile tears" when questioned by police, a court has heard.
A woman infected with HIV by her husband says her life has been destroyed by the disease, which has left her unemployable and unable to sign her own name.
Identity thieves want to steal your life savings and their latest scam targets people expecting handouts as part of the Australian federal government's stimulus package.
Police are expecting more victims to come forward after taxi driver John Worboys was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting female passengers.
A smooth talking con artist convinced an 88-year-old woman he’d do her yardwork for a year, drove her to her bank and took $4,000 cash before leaving her weeping in the parking lot Monday.
Bernadette Hurst an "obsessed" grandmother from West Sussex, who used a string of bogus identities to win Britain's biggest radio competition and other major prizes, has narrowly avoided jail.
A registered sex offender from Granite City, who is believed to be the first sex offender in the country to be charged with new offenses stemming from subscriber information disclosed by MySpace, was convicted Monday of producing child pornography.
Helg Sgarbi, dubbed 'the Swiss gigolo' was sentenced to six years in jail today for defrauding Germany's richest woman of more than £6million and attempting to blackmail her for tens of millions more.
"Lord" Hugh Rodley, A bogus peer who led a "sophisticated" plot to steal £229m from a Japanese bank has been jailed for eight years.
Enrico Cagnotti - A con artist who preyed on single women with tales of his wealth and stature deserved an 18-month jail sentence handed him last fall, Ontario's highest court ruled Friday.
LONDON, March 5 (UPI) -- A survey released to coincide with World Book Day suggests two-thirds of Britons have lied about reading classic books such as Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace."
Bigamist John Thomas Cope has now be revealed as a serial fraudster who stole from his employers to pursue another woman with whom he was cheating on his ‘wife’.
Dubbed the Vicar of Fibley, friends of the spiritualist minister who murdered his wife said he was a compulsive liar.
A King County sheriff's deputy kicks a 15-year-old girl, slams her to the floor of a jail cell, strikes her and pulls her hair in violent attack.
PHOENIX -- Eight-time con artist Laura Lee Medley has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for making fraudulent medical claims, attorney general Terry Goddard announced Thursday.
Organizers of a weekend ice-fishing tournament in Somerset, Wisc. said they smelled something fishy after receiving several anonymous tips that the contest winner—and recipient of a new pickup truck worth $28,000—had allegedly cheated.
MURRIETA, Calif. -- Murrieta police Wednesday sought a couple who showed a 26-year-old woman a fake gold bar and conned her out of $5,000.
SEATTLE (AP) — Stolen laptop? Now you can tell those thieves exactly what you think of them.
A former Bank of America official has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for transporting thousands of dollars in stolen funds to a casino in Louisiana.
GREENDALE, Wis. -- Police in Greendale say they’ve arrested a key player in a Jamaican lottery scam. A Greendale man said that he lost thousands after getting a call from the crooks.
Rocking backwards in a fit of laughter, this is hoax caller Aaron Davie seconds after he telephoned an unsuspecting father to tell him his only child had 'just been killed'.
A potential witness in the upcoming trial against a Detroit plumbing and heating company owner accused of receiving stolen property said the owner called him twice to ask him to lie about evidence in the case.
AMES, Iowa - An Ames man has been charged with extortion after police say he tried to sell a stolen computer for $300.
A Devon man who ran a gang of thieves across the south west of England and had a "factory" selling stolen goods on eBay has been jailed for three years.
Troy Hopkins has been charged a second time with stealing a cash collection tin for bushfire victims from a pub - a day after he was arrested over the same crime at another pub.
Malcolm Webster, sought by New Zealand police for allegedly drugging his second wife in Auckland has appeared in court in Scotland accused of murdering his first wife to claim life insurance.
U.S computer companies set up bogus offices in Iowa as part of a complicated scheme to exploit immigration rules and pay foreign workers less than they would typically earn elsewhere, federal prosecutors alleged Thursday.
The attorney for a Long Island doctor suing his wife over a donated kidney in an ugly divorce case is lashing out at a woman who says the doctor mentally and physically abused her over 20 years ago.
The illegal immigrants were convicted of a plot to lure poor young Guatemalans to the U.S. with the promise of legitimate jobs.
Someone stole $2.5 million from the state of Utah last year by forging the signature of a public employee and diverting money to an account in Texas
Mortgage broker and Bollywood impresario Vijay Taneja has been sentenced to 84 months in jail followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $33 million in restitution to four financial organisations, on charges of money laundering.<
A LABOURER who admitted murdering a migrant worker denied today that he had implicated another man in the killing in a bid to have his own sentence reduced.
The owners of five Brooklyn daycare centers stole $60,000 from the state that was intended to fund slots for disadvantaged kids, the Brooklyn DA revealed today.
A TEENAGER has been charged with sexual assault after he allegedly posed as a girl on Facebook, had classmates send him naked photos and blackmailed them into performing sex acts.
Police in New Jersey say a man stole stacks of newspapers and delivered them to unsuspecting customers for years. Phillipsburg police say Michael Farrell was delivering copies of the Express-Times of Easton for the last three years.
The ad offered a Canadian Visa and $450-a-week as a kitchen hand at a Crowne Plaza hotel in Toronto. Singh answered the ad, and agreed to pay an immigration consultant a $12,500 advance and an equal amount when his immigration documents were prepared.<
NEW DELHI — How did B. Ramalinga Raju, the chairman of one of India’s largest information technology companies, carry out the biggest financial fraud in this country’s history? Apparently it does take a village.
Harrisburg, Pa.
A Horseheads man has been charged with allegedly posing as a teenage boy on Internet chat rooms to solicit sex from an underage girl.
Art Cashin, one of the talking heads on CNBC, said early on Thursday morning that the stock market was going down in part because of a lack of confidence caused by the failure of the Senate to quickly confirm Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary.
ISRAELI Dudi Sela denied an allegation of cheating during his third-round loss to Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Australian Open.
More than 1300 students have been nabbed trying to pass off other people’s work as their own since January 2006, documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show.
MORE than 100 cheats were caught out thanks to an ingenious piece of lie detector technology that has saved Basildon council tax payers more than £235,000 in just three months
The offer of cheap babysitting was the draw that a sex offender hoped parents would take advantage of.
Instead, the offer landed him in the Jasper County Jail on charges of failing to comply with sex offender registry guidelines.
I want to publicly acknowledge a mistake I have made and I want to apologize for it.
In the past, I have characterized my relationship with Beau Breedlove as purely non-sexual. That is not true. Beau Breedlove and I had a sexual relationship
Mayor Sam Adams said he has no plans to resign in the wake of his acknowledgment that he had a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old man in 2005 and lied about it two years later, as Adams was beginning his campaign for mayor.
A SURFER was jailed yesterday for claiming £63,500 in disability benefits — while working as a LIFEGUARD.
A COBURG man described by a judge as a "grim reaper" has been sentenced to more than 18 years' jail for deliberately trying to infect others with HIV, following the first prosecution of its type in Victoria.
Just before Barack Obama named Timothy Geithner to be his treasury secretary, the president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank quickly and quietly paid $26,000 in back taxes and interest due since 2001 and 2002.
A WANNABE celeb chef was exposed as a benefits cheat – after being spotted on a TV cooking show.
BANGOR, Maine — A federal judge called a Winn man a liar before sentencing him Wednesday to more than five years in prison on drug and Social Security fraud charges
Norwood police are looking for a runaway babysitter who they believe abused a 4-month-old boy so severely the baby suffered a fractured skull, a damaged rib cage and three broken vertebrae.
The missing pilot who bailed out of his plane, apparently to avoid a growing trail of lawsuits and investigations, now faces two new felony charges stemming from his atempted disappearing act.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he persuaded Bush to reverse a vote on a Gaza cease-fire resolution. But the State Department says Condoleezza Rice already had decided to abstain
A British councillor has come under fire after being caught using an alias to praise his own work on the local newspaper's website.
TOUR Down Under riders caught cheating will face "career-ending" bans for the first time under a new world anti-doping code introduced this month.
Consumers are feeling the pinch and are looking for investment opportunities, new credit, or renovating their homes to enhance their market value. During an economic downturn scammers are out in full force looking to catch the vulnerable
An 82-year-old businessman was charged Thursday with running a Ponzi scheme that took in at least $17 million from a clientele gleaned largely through ads in Catholic newspapers.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Rod Blagojevich faces almost certain impeachment by the Illinois House, a historic step that would trigger a trial to determine whether the Democratic governor should be tossed out of office.
MARION, Ind. - A former church official has been charged with stealing more than $276,000 from church accounts and using some of the money to pay for a vasectomy, motorcycles and cars.
Sylvian Fleuriau is a real estate agent. When comes to selling home, he has some very interesting techniques. He looks right home, but this isn't his home, he's supposed to be selling it, instead he's searching it.
SURVEILLANCE of a "cold and calculating" killer who hospital officials suspected could harm her baby son was called off two days before she smothered him to death.
Two young Minnesota men allegedly stole a quarter million dollars in cash from the grandfather of one of them, then went on a two-day shopping spree where they bought at least six cars and trucks, clothes, shoes, a laptop computer and a flat-screen tv<
The half-brother of entertainer Dane Cook allegedly embezzled more than $10 million from the comedian in a series of thefts that included cashing a forged $3 million check as he was being ousted as Cook's business manager.
It must have seemed an easy way to get rich quick. Founder Heidi “Kimmer” Diaz set up a website and charged members a fee to access the Kimkins diet, boasting they could lose up to 5 percent of their body weight in 10 days.
SCHEMING husband-killer Valerie Brown's toy-boy lover will only serve 12 years behind bars.
It was a shock to Misha Defonseca's readers this year when she admitted that the best-selling story of her tortured childhood during the Holocaust was false, but her U.S. publisher saw it as an opportunity to undo a stinging, 7-year-old court judgment.
A promising law student has become the first casualty of the bogus degree scam exposed by the Star.
Quami Frederick, 28, has quit the Bay St. law firm where she was to article after graduating in the spring.
Stein Bagger, the chief executive officer of bankrupt Danish computer firm IT Factory A/S, pleaded guilty to fraud charges in what local media are describing as the country’s biggest ever white-collar criminal case.
Medicare fraud in Florida has feds debating: Target cheating clinics, or fake patients?
Temptation and greed have made 2008 a banner year for white collar crime.
Tom Petters. Michael Parish. Neulan Midkiff. Robert Beale. Eldon Anderson. 2008 turned out to be a very big year for white-collar crime.
A scrounging mum who invented four fake children to falsely claim more £62,000 in benefits has been jailed.
Investigators now conclude that Marc Dreier, the New York lawyer busted for criminal impersonation in Toronto two weeks ago, stole more than $380 million.
A one-time computer salesman who rose through the ranks to help build Fry's Electronics into a robust retailer is facing allegations that he defrauded the San Jose company out of $65 million, much of which he used to pay off enormous gambling debts
Are you a chump if you play by the rules?
Whatever happened to honesty and integrity?
Conning investors and dodging the regulators who are supposed to curb them, swindlers cost markets millions. Ruth Sunderland investigates why it is important to understand the psychology of fraud
Fashion designer Anand Jon has passed a polygraph examination. According to the documents provided by the polygrapher, the questions asked regard the most serious charge of forcible sexual assault,
Scams, ruses and plain old retail rip-offs, it's not only the super shysters that make a fortune swindling us.
There are unlikely to be many residents in the smart apartment block at 133 East 64th Street in Manhattan who sport an electronic tagging device around their ankle. There will be even fewer in the building who have been put under a 7pm-to-9am curfew by
A recent interview of O’Reilly, at a book signing on Long Island, showed (once again) that he does seem to live in a fantasy world
FBI says officers took $30,000
It didn't take Richard Doroniuk long as a new tactical officer in the Morgan Park District to learn that on Chicago's mean streets, just about every rule could be broken.
A MAN who admitted faking qualifications to land a job doing safety checks on Qantas jets also faked the character references supplied to the sentencing judge.
Tall tale tellers are descending on the Lake District in the hope of being crowned the Biggest Liar in the World.
THE man accused of murdering teenage student Hannah Foster has been accused of lying to save his skin, a court was told.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A man accused of lying during a murder trial said the prosecution knew he wasn't aware of details of the case.
Nine-year-old schoolgirl Shannon Matthews was kidnapped and drugged in a "wicked" plan by her own mother and an accomplice to claim reward money, a jury heard today.
A Melbourne man posed as a rich Arabian prince to con investors out of more than $7 million to finance his luxury lifestyle.
A CLARE woman convicted in July of soliciting an Egyptian poker dealer to kill her partner and his two sons has been sentenced to six years in prison at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.
In an effort to disrupt a pipeline of guns for felons, federal officials have charged four people with lying to buy firearms for people they knew could not legally own them.
The former mayor of the US city of Detroit has been sentenced to four months in jail for obstructing justice in connection with a sex scandal.
Stevens was convicted of seven counts of making false statements on Senate ethics forms to hide hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and work on his Alaska home from an oilfield contractor at the center of a corruption investigation in the state.<
Police originally said police had gone to Kathryn Johnston's northwest Atlanta home in 2006 after an informant bought drugs there. But after finding none, officers tried to cover up the mistake by planting baggies of marijuana, prosecutors said.
The disgraced American sprinter opened up on The Oprah Winfrey Show, but appeared to have trouble taking full responsibility for the drug-taking that tarnished her career and the Sydney Olympics.
FORMER judge Marcus Einfeld has this morning finally admitted that he lied when he claimed a dead woman was driving his speeding car.
Somebody knows and somebodys lying, somebody pooed and somebodies crying. The truth will be discovered and the truth will set somebody free.
In the mortgage industry, they are called "liar loans" _ mortgages approved without requiring proof of the borrower's income or assets. The worst of them earn the nickname "ninja loans," short for "no income, no job, and (no) assets."
FIRST it was: "I never meet this man." Then it was: "I bought drugs off him but I never used them, and I never had sex with him." But by Sunday, it was time for confession.
In the maze of mayhem created by all the look-and-sound-alike property scamsters, confusion catches as many people as their scams. Here's one example.
People use different parts of their brain when they lie and when they tell the truth and a brain scan can catch the liar out, say a team of U.S. researchers.
This absolutely hilarious and Bob Barker from the Price is Right is such the cool dude! LOL!
Read this and find out how this one got caught! This underscores the value of finishing grade 3.
A deputy is reportedly fired for lying about his sexual relationship with missing tot mom Casey Anthony.
Outspoken reality TV judge Sharon Osbourne has launched an attack on Aussie actor Nicole Kidman, describing her forehead as "like a f-ing flatscreen TV".
A GOLD Coast woman lied about dying of cancer and conned an 89-year-old dementia sufferer into giving her a $500,000 house
Mr Brown was forced to resign after he was caught out in a lie about dancing around his office in his underwear during a party in his office.
The father of a man suspected of fatally injuring an eight-year-old boy in a hit and run accident told police that his son was a liar who could not be trusted
"Given the club has now found their information to be false, it strikes at the principles of honesty and integrity that the Collingwood Football Club is built on
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