Fraud & Financial Crime

Brent Beckley, co-founder of Absolute Poker, a Costa Rica-based online gambling website, pleaded guilty to charges pertaining to conspiracy to commit money laundering and bank fraud and conspiracy to violate U.S. Internet gambling...

I have followed the incident between the American Legislative Exchange Council and Occupy Santa Fe. I am astonished at the various responses out of the Legislature. The very presence of our legislators in...

WORLDWIDE COMPUTER PRODUCTS NEWS-January 30, 2012-McAfee Mobile Security 2.0 now available(C)1995-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS http://www.m2.com Security technology company McAfee announced on Monday the next generation of McAfee Mobile Security software, providing smartphone and tablet...

2 hours ago NETHERLANDS - Two former directors at PREIM - the erstwhile property manager of the EUR14bn Dutch pension fund for Philips - have been found guilty of fraud....

Twenty-two years after the US invasion of Panama in 1989 removed him from power (NotiCen, Dec. 22, 1989), former dictator Manuel Noriega (1983-1989) arrived in his home country on Dec. 11. Since 2010,...

Robert Bonerba, 62, the disgraced former head of Smithtown's building department, was arrested by state narcotics investigators for buying $500 worth of heroin in a K-Mart parking lot on Tuesday afternoon, according to...

Liquid expands as the temperature increases. That simple law of physics is at the heart of a consumer class action that alleges Chevron is cheating California consumers by selling motor fuel at an...

Two Nassau County women have been charged with allegedly stealing hundreds of identities nationwide through a Craigslist scam and using them to file fraudulent tax returns seeking more than $500,000 in refunds and...

The appeal establishes that the lower courts violated the Ecuadorian constitution by refusing to take any corrective action in response to the extensive fraud and corruption committed by plaintiffs' lawyers and their representatives....

A Stony Brook-based company believes it has the guts to tackle the SAT cheating scandal - and the genes too. James Hayward, president and CEO of Applied DNA Sciences, spoke before the New...

The son of a nursing home patient who died after falling down a staircase while strapped in her wheelchair has been awarded $200 million against a Florida facility. 92-year-old Elvira Nunziata was able...

Hard-up diamond peddlers fake a robbery complete with gun-toting Hassidic Jews. A pastor plans the execution of a disabled parishioner. A mortician stages an imaginary death of an imaginary man, using cow parts...

Public outcry over two controversial Internet piracy bills in Congress seems to have reached Washington. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released a statement this morning saying he would be postponing a vote scheduled...

Stories of Enron and Bernie Madoff's financial frauds and scheming grab headlines, but small businesses across the country are quietly being ripped off to the tune of millions every year. From the not...

Financial detectives are the new crime fighters in a world where they are looking for patterns and weaknesses in the financial spreadsheets. Forensic accounting goes back to the days of Al Capone, a...

BENSALEM, Pa. -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that all persons or entities who purchased the common stock of Primo Water Corporation ("Primo Water" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:PRMW) pursuant and/or traceable...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU) today issued the following statement regarding two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act, or PIPA, in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy...

The Better Business Bureau has once again become the target of phishing scam. The bureau reports that a fake email, claiming to be from a bbb.org address about a recently filed complaint is...

Latest Revenue Milestone Built on High Demand for Business Analytics to Capitalize on Big Data CARY, N.C. -- SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, achieved record global revenue of US$2.725...