All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 6 2023 // With Donald Trump due on the witness stand this week, testimony from his adult sons in his civil business fraud trial wrapped up Friday with Eric Trump saying he relied completely on accountants and lawyers to assure the...
Nov 3 2023 // FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty Nov. 2 of stealing from customers of his now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange in one of the biggest financial frauds on record, a verdict that cemented the 31-year-old former...
Nov 2 2023 // Uber and Lyft will pay a combined $328 million to settle claims by New York’s attorney general that the ride-sharing companies systematically cheated drivers out of pay and benefits.Attorney General Letitia James...
Nov 1 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Federal officials have charged four Minnesota men in a multi- million-dollar scheme to transport stolen catalytic converters to buyers in several states. U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger in Minneapolis...
Oct 31 2023 // Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers’ funding mechanism, a senior White House official said on Tuesday.The...
Oct 30 2023 // Panama has been removed from the gray list of financial crime watchdog FATF, a register which includes countries deemed to be doing too little to combat money laundering, according to a government statement on Friday.The...
Oct 30 2023 // South Carolina in 2022 saw a record number of complaints about insurance fraud, and has almost matched the number through the first 10 months of this year.And some state lawmakers are now looking into the reasons for the...
Oct 30 2023 // A Springfield, Massachusetts man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston last week to his role in a regional organized theft crew that stole catalytic converters from over 490 vehicles.According to Acting U.S. Attorney...
Oct 27 2023 // A New Jersey man has admitted his role in a conspiracy to steal and transport across state lines luxury cars stolen from towns in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, reported U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger.Malik Baker...
Oct 26 2023 // Sam Bankman-Fried could take the stand at his fraud trial as soon as Thursday, when prosecutors are set to finish presenting their case accusing the founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX of stealing billions...
Oct 25 2023 // Federal authorities have released more details and unsealed charges in the theft of more than 2 million dimes earlier this year from a tractor-trailer that had picked up the coins from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.The...
Oct 24 2023 // Erin Lee McCarroll, 49, of Laguna Beach, California, was arraigned on 27 felony counts including grand theft and forgery after a California Department of Insurance investigation found she allegedly stole more than $62,000...
Oct 23 2023 // Chemours Co. and its legal predecessor E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co will face a Dutch criminal investigation for the potential harmful effects of emitting forever chemicals in the Netherlands.Prosecutors said it...
Oct 20 2023 // ORD, Neb. (AP) – A small-town Nebraska sheriff has been charged with filing a fraudulent auto insurance claim to get the repairs to his yellow 2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo paid for.The complaint filed against Valley County...
Oct 20 2023 // Ransomware victims have become less likely to pay extortion demands, but cyber criminals are changing their tactics by hitting third-party vendors and using data exfiltration instead of encryption when making ransom...
Oct 19 2023 // bankruptcybakruptNew York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday sued cryptocurrency firms Genesis Global, its parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG) and Gemini for allegedly “defrauding” investors of...
Oct 17 2023 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Seventeen Florida sheriff`s deputies appeared in court on charges that they stole about half a million dollars in pandemic relief funds.The Broward County deputies, who are charged...
Oct 16 2023 // Vehicle thefts continue to plague the nation, according to a new report released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). The report was released to coincide with National Crime Prevention Month.Nearly 500,000...
Oct 16 2023 // The defendants in the corruption case involving U.S. Senator Robert Menendez include a former New Jersey insurance broker who was convicted of premium fraud in 2011 and lost his insurance license.Jose Uribe allegedly got...
Oct 16 2023 // A Bothell, Washington man was added to Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s Insurance Fraud Most Wanted list.Clinton Jonathan “Sonny” Behrends failed to appear at his arraignment after being charged by...