Fraud

The fraudster is currently serving a six-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of wire fraud.

We must have greater transparency around public spending, stronger international cooperation to prosecute bribery and global governance of tax abuse and money laundering.

"We were looking at this and saying to ourselves, 'This just is not adding up,'" says one of Fred Eshelman's former partners.

Over 100 phones were allegedly sent to Rosanna Lucrecia Cruel Blanco as part of an insurance scam, according to the Department of Justice.

Dominion Voting Services said it had to hire private investigators and cross state lines to find attorney Sidney Powell after filing a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Powell.

Police across the U.S. say calls and angry people holding tax forms have swamped law enforcement departments with claims of unemployment fraud and ID theft.

Henry McInnis, who had no previous medical experience, told patients with long-term terminal illnesses that they had less than six months to live in order to enroll them in his company's hospice services.

Among the common scams are fake checks, which "can take weeks to be discovered and untangled," the Federal Trade Commission warns.

A Newsmax segment ended in dramatic fashion as the MyPillow founder and ardent Trump supporter ranted about election fraud until one of the anchors walked off the set.

A report from California State Auditor Elaine Howle said that the Employment Development Department did nothing to stop paying fake claims for months.

Ahmed Kosoko allegedly stole at least $6,000 in economic stimulus checks that had been sent through the mail.

MyPillow is out; apolitical pillows are in

A Q&A with writers Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, who covered one of the most famous corporate fraud trials of all time.

A man in Michigan wired $140,000 to phone scammers who pretended to be representatives from U.S. Customs and Border Control and the local police, after they claimed to have a warrant out for his arrest.

A 71-year-old supporter of President Donald Trump reportedly said that he was forced to "wonder" about the honesty of the outgoing president after he recently commuted the decades-long prison sentence of a man who stole his life savings in a Ponzi scheme.

Deutsche Bank will pay the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission the fine for taking part in "a criminal scheme to conceal payments to so-called consultants worldwide who served as conduits for bribes to foreign officials."

The California Employment Development Department has suspended payments on benefit claims for accounts considered high risk amid fears of fraud.

In a series of tweets Saturday, the president attacked a variety of people and departments for not backing his voter fraud claims.

President Donald Trump singled out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden's victory in December, in his Thursday tweet.

Patrice Runner, 54, allegedly scammed about $180 million from American victims over 20 years by sending letters purporting to be from two famous French psychics.

Mechanic Edward Swanigan is urging others to monitor their bank account and statements closely after thieves stole his life savings.

The company promised testing kits that could detect COVID-19 from a blood sample. According to court documents, the test never existed.

Andrea Gervais allegedly scored thousands of dollars by using Senator Dianne Feinstein's name.

State election laws turned out to be more than capable of conducting elections and arbitrating closely contested results.

In a misstep from the state's Employment Development Department, the Bank of America reports $2 billion in unemployment funds have been stolen by fraudsters. Last month, for instance, the EDD said the state approved $140 million to inmates who fraudulently applied for benefits.

"Because we must dismiss this appeal, the defendants' conditional cross appeal is also DISMISSED," wrote Judge Andrew Brasher on Friday.

Each of the 20 people who drew the lucky numbers in a South African Powerball game on Tuesday won $372.791.40.

In a Washington Post op-ed, the former cybersecurity chief said he would not be intimidated by threats made against him.

"Why is [Arizona Governor Doug Ducey] rushing to put a Democrat in office," President Donald Trump tweeted Monday.

"The @FBI did not rig the election," tweeted Ilinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger on Sunday in response to President Donald Trump's implications that members of his own administration could be connected to alleged electoral fraud.