Ex-Minnesota Vikings tight end Stu Voigt and his business partner Jeffery Gardner faces trial over Ponzi scheme. Voigt is charged with falsifying a loan application and bank fraud, while Gardner is facing the same charges and an additional mail fraud.
Leah and Travis Maurer, prominent advocates for legalization of marijuana in Oregon, are facing a million-dollar lawsuit filed by their business partner for fraud, for allegedly not growing marijuana when they were supposed to.
Paul Hebert has plead guilty for disability benefit fraud. A man from Gloucester, Massachusetts recently pleaded guilty to federal charges in Vermont of Social Security and Medicaid fraud while he was part of the reality TV show, Wicked Tuna.
Goldman Sachs is about to reach a $5.1 billion settlement with the US government over charges that, along with other banks in 2006-2008, it had falsely advertised residential mortgaged backed securities (RMBS) as safe investments to millions of investors and other financial cilents.
A legal brawl is expected to occur between the Commonwealth Bank agaisnt the alleged fraud victims who strongly declared the unlawful practices of one of the nation's biggest lender.
A judge threw out corruption charges against South African opposition firebrand Julius Malema on Tuesday, a ruling hailed as a major victory by the vocal critic of President Jacob Zuma.
A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a 2013 ruling that UBS AG was not liable to shareholders for saying it was able to control risk even as a rogue trader caused $2.3 billion in losses.
Victims of Bernard Madoff's massive fraud are not entitled to inflation or interest adjustments on their claims, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday, in a decision that could speed the return of more than $1 billion to the swindler's former customers.
In April 2011, two years before their prices sank, a slew of bond funds that were being sold by UBS’s Puerto Rico arm appeared to its brokers to be such risky investments that they balked at promoting them to their clients.
China is considering trimming nine crimes from the list of offences punishable by death, state media said on Monday, as the ruling Communist Party considers broader reforms to the country's legal system.
The owners of a suburban Phoenix dog-boarding kennel and two caretakers, one of them the son of U.S. Senator Jeff Flake, were indicted on animal cruelty charges on Wednesday after the deaths of 21 dogs at the facility in June, county prosecutors said.
A U.S. judge on Friday sharply questioned provisions of a shareholder settlement that would release Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N) executives from liability over the computing company's botched acquisition of Autonomy Plc.
The rival candidates in Afghanistan's messy election for a new president finally struck a power-sharing deal on Saturday, aides said, after more than two months of tension over a vote in which each side accused the other of fraud.
A U.S. appeals court in Chicago said on Friday that Wisconsin can implement its 2012 law requiring voters to present photo identification at the ballot box, allowing the state to put the new rules into effect at the general election in November.
The owner of Seattle-area drive-up coffee stands that offered caffeine and sex acts and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in tips for her baristas pleaded guilty to felony charges of fraud and promotion of prostitution, the county prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.
Fraudsters are targeting JPMorgan Chase & Cocustomers in an email "phishing" campaign that is unusual because it attempts to collect credentials for that bank and also infect PCs with a virus that steals passwords from other institutions.
Brittany Ozarowski, a Long Island 21-year-old with a heroin habit pretended to be cancer-ridden in order to solicit money from a bevy of merchants and sympathizers.
A New York state appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Anthony Marshall, who was found guilty in 2009 of siphoning millions of dollars from socialite Brooke Astor's estate.
