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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's attorney general said Wednesday he has annulled 15 pending adoptions to U.S. couples after finding evidence of fraud or other irregularities. Attorney General Baudilio Portillo suspended all of Guatemala's 2,286 pending adoption cases in early May to investigate...
A former Bank of America manager pleaded guilty today to participating in a massive embezzlement at the D.C. tax office, admitting in court that he deposited nearly $18 million in fraudulent checks and helped distribute the stolen money to others involved in the scheme.
A former hedge fund manager was convicted Wednesday of leading an investment scheme that caused clients, ranging from former NFL players to his mother, to lose millions of dollars while he spent the money on jewelry, real estate and a $500,000 wedding.
By CHARLES OWENS BLUEFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH (BLUEFIELD, W.V.) GRUNDY, Va. — A Buchanan County man who claimed to be a quadriplegic has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on multiple federal charges. Timothy Carl Ling, 31, of Hurley, was sentenced in United States District Court to 20 years of...
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Police have arrested a man accused of using the names of imaginary children on library cards to steal from libraries all over the First Coast. Ironically, police handcuffed 34-year-old Jermaine Smith at the library. Investigators say Smith stole nearly $7,000 worth of DVDs,...
Oscar Black, 58, of Weatherford, who owned and operated OB Cattle, pled guilty in federal court in Dallas to one count of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper of the Northern District of Texas. Black faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and...
Source: News.bbc.co.uk Cyber crime - internet banking and credit card fraud - is now the fastest growing sector of global organised crime, increasing at a rate of about 40% per year. With Brazil thought to have by far the largest number of cyber criminals, Misha Glenny, reporting for the BBC...
Five people indicted last week by a grand jury in a loan fraud case were arraigned in federal court Wednesday morning. The defendants are accused of facilitating or participating in a $19.3 million residential construction loan fraud scheme that defrauded Zion’s Bank of more than $1 million. All...
Notice of a possible civil action against C.V. Starr & Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Maurice R. Greenberg by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission comes nearly three years after the regulator first accused Greenberg of knowingly putting together a fraudulent reinsurance...
LONDON, UK, 21st May 2008, Comsec Consulting, a leading information security consulting firm, today presented valuable knowledge and real-life advice on the challenges faced by businesses to manage and stay ahead of IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC
