Key Witness Against Bankman-Fried Avoids Prison For Helping Feds
A federal judge credited Nishad Singh's substantial assistance to prosecutors as he sentenced the key cooperator in the criminal fraud...
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Oct 311 min read
Four Arrested In 'Pigeon Drop' Conning MD Woman Of $40K
Maryland authorities arrested three people from Alabama and one from Tennessee after they say the group conned an older woman out of tens...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 272 min read
Could Judge's Ruling Thwart Role Of Whistleblowers In Fraud Cases?
Since 1986, whistleblowers have been prominent in the government’s war on fraud, accounting for $53 billion of the $75 billion recovered...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 242 min read
Viral Dash Cam Accident Video Shows Insurance Fraud Scheme
Ashpia Natasha was heading to Long Island to run errands last week when a Honda Civic cut her off in the left lane on the Belt Parkway....
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 212 min read
'Varsity Blues' Schemer Out Of Prison, Back in Business
William “Rick” Singer, the mastermind behind the Varsity Blues college admissions cheating scandal, is out of prison and setting up a new...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 292 min read
New Maryland Law Aims To Prevent Gift Card Draining
Maryland is the first state in the country to create a law aimed at curbing a rising form of gift card fraud called card draining. Card...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 291 min read
CA School Official Sentenced To 6 Years For Embezzling $17 Million
A former California public school official who embezzled more than $16 million from a school district and used the money to fund a lavish...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 241 min read
Texas Woman Gets 15-Year Term For Stealing $100M From Youth Project
A Texas woman who stole over $100 million from a youth development grant program aimed at helping children of military families and used...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 182 min read
Exiled Chinese Billionaire Guo Wengui Convicted of Federal Fraud
Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese billionaire, was found guilty in federal court of swindling thousands of his followers out of over $1...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 281 min read
DOJ Charges 193 In Health Care Fraud Schemes Across U.S.
Nearly 200 people have been charged for their roles in various health care fraud schemes across the U.S. that federal authorities say...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 272 min read
Five Charged After Attempted Jury Bribery in COVID-19 Fraud Case
Five people were charged Wednesday with conspiring to bribe a Minnesota juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash in exchange for the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 42 min read
Juror In Minnesota Fraud Case Gets $120,000 Bribe Offer
After 24 days of testimony, Minnesota jurors began deliberations on Monday in the first Feeding Our Future trial. One juror was absent...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 111 min read
After 3,500 Defendants, DOJ Says More Pandemic Fraud Work Ahead
More resources are needed to investigate and prosecute people who stole billions in pandemic relief funds, the Justice Department says....
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 22 min read
'Skimming' Scams Spread In U.S.; Romanian Gets Six-Year Term
A Romanian man was sentenced to six years in federal prison for running an ATM skimming crew aimed at using electronic surveillance...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 11 min read
FTC Fights Back Against Scams Mimicking Federal Agencies
Americans reported losing an all-time high of $10 billion to scammers last year, says the Federal Trade Commission, $1 billion more than...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 252 min read
New Scamming Trend: Getting Victims To Buy Gold Bars
Lisa Bromley, a police officer in suburban Maryland, disguised herself in a wig and a coronavirus mask, playing the role of a scam victim...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 191 min read
Prosecutors Accuse Jim Biden Associate Of Defrauding Medicare
Prosecutors said a business associate of President Biden's brother Jim conspired to defraud Medicare alongside an alleged leader of the...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 72 min read
Texas Man Charged With Trying to Scam George Santos, Masterson
A Texas man surrendered Wednesday over accusations he committed wire fraud by attempting to scam then-Rep. George Santos (R-NY), actor...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 282 min read
Two Charged With Stealing $20M In Food Stamp Benefits
Two people have been charged for running a food stamp fraud scheme from a New York City bodega, where the pair trafficked and stole...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 282 min read
Sam Bankman-Fried Asks for Sentence Leniency
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer urged a judge on Tuesday to impose a lenient sentence for the FTX founder's conviction for stealing $8 billion...
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