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FRAUD, EMBEZZLEMENT, WHITE COLLAR CRIME
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| Monday, 13-Oct-2008 06:39 EDT |
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Software executives charged with fraud
SEATTLE, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Executives at a Seattle software company routinely inflated company revenues to attract investors, federal authorities allege.
ACORN drawing even more criticism
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A community-based organization's voter drive that has registered some 1.3 million voters is drawing allegations of fraud, observers say.
Judge: Restitution offer 'ridiculous'
NAPIER, New Zealand, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A New Zealand judge has sentenced a man convicted of fraud to prison, calling the prospect of repayment of millions of dollars "ridiculous."
Leader of Calif. mortgage scam sentenced
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A federal judge Friday sentenced a former Los Angeles real estate developer to 14 years in prison for his role in a $50 million mortgage fraud.
Woman arrested over $3.5M lottery prize
WINDSOR, Ontario, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A Canadian woman and her daughter have been arrested by Ontario Provincial Police in connection with cashing a disputed $3.5 million lottery ticket.
Opera buff charged with defrauding clients
NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- A New York patron of the arts known for his largess to the Metropolitan Opera is on trial, charged with swindling clients of his investment firm.
Man charged with Mich. football camp con
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich., Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Police in a Detroit suburb say they had more than 40 complaints against a man charged in an alleged swindle connected to a University of Michigan football camp.
Walgreens pays $9.9 million settlement
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- National pharmacy giant Walgreens Co. paid $9.9 million to settle claims it had overbilled four state Medicaid agencies, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Opposition shut out in Belarus election
MINSK, Belarus, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Opposition leaders say Belarus election results in which only supporters of President Alexander Lukashenko won parliamentary seats are evidence of fraud.
Congressmen keep funds from guilty donor
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., says he won't give back thousands of dollars he received from a billionaire simply because the donor pleaded guilty in a stock fraud.
Hathaway's former beau pleads guilty
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Businessman Raffaello Follieri, U.S. actress Anne Hathaway's former beau, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering.
Iraq probes alleged reconstruction fraud
BAGHDAD, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Iraqi police say they have ordered the arrest of the owner of an Internet company accused of fraudulently taking millions of dollars meant for reconstruction.
Judge rules wartime law applies to Big Dig
BOSTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A federal judge extended the statute of limitations on charges against Boston "Big Dig" highway construction contractors by citing an obscure wartime law.
Texas cracks down on honor plate imposters
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Texas drivers seeking military honor license plates will have to provide more paperwork as the state tried to weed out impostors.
Man charged with $214M fraud scheme
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A man who set up a Florida company that claims to have its own currency has been charged with trying to defraud the Bank of America of more than $200 million.
Horse breeder jailed for forgery
INVERNESS, Scotland, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- A Scottish horse breeder has been sentenced to a year in jail for forging documents in a lawsuit by a woman who claimed she was sold a dangerous pony.
Police back Societe Generale executives
PARIS, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A French police report backs assertions by Societe Generale bankers they knew nothing of the massive risky investments by trader Jerome Kerviel, sources say.
Husband of slain woman charged with fraud
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- The owner of a California gold-trading firm, whose estranged wife was stabbed to death Monday, has been arrested on federal charges, the FBI said Saturday.
Fla. partly foils alleged Lebanon con
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 30 (UPI) -- Florida officials say a Lebanese con man nearly tricked a state agency out of almost $6 million, but the plot was discovered before all the money disappeared.
Ex-mayor of Newark, N.J., gets 27 months
NEWARK, N.J., July 29 (UPI) -- Sharpe James, the former mayor of Newark, N.J., was sentenced Tuesday to 27 months in prison for helping his girlfriend buy city property.
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