A Minnesota couple pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud after siphoning off more than $5 million from federal funding meant to feed underserved children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the Nigerian legislature, departing President Muhammadu Buhari created a fake airline as his final act in office. Buhari even managed to arrange the flight of a lone aircraft bearing the livery of the nonexistent Nigeria Air before taking his final bow.
Disgraced Theranos founder and convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes looks bound for prison time after an appeals court Tuesday rejected her bid to remain free while she tries to overturn her conviction in a blood-testing scam. The former Silicon Valley star has
Disgraced Theranos founder and convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes claims that she still believes her tech startup could have revolutionized healthcare, adding that she is even now working on new inventions, saying, “I still feel the same calling to it as I always did.”
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ prison sentence has been delayed. She was supposed to begin her 11-year prison sentence on Thursday, but she has dodged prison once again thanks to an appeal filed against her conviction.
A federal judge has denied disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ request to remain free on bail while she tries to appeal her conviction for wire fraud.
Investors have claimed that Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk ran a pyramid scheme to boost the price of the popular Dogecoin cryptocurrency, and are suing Musk for $258 billion in damages.
India’s parliament, the Lok Sabha, on Monday was roiled by angry protests from opposition members against the expulsion of India Congress Party (INC) leader Rahul Gandhi.
A group of Republican senators led by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced legislation Tuesday to extend the statute of limitations for prosecuting those who abused taxpayer-funded coronavirus unemployment benefits, Breitbart News has learned.
Authorities raided the Paris offices of five banks Tuesday on suspicion of tax fraud, the French National Financial Prosecutor´s Office said.
Finance YouTubers who promoted the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX are now facing a $1 billion lawsuit from victims who lost money following the collapse of disgraced CEO and Democrat megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried.
During portions of an interview with ABC News aired on Tuesday, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said that victims of identity theft used to obtain coronavirus relief have little in the way of recourse at the federal level, and “victims
During a report on Tuesday, ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott stated that despite promising an executive order to help victims of identity theft who had their stolen identities used to obtain fraudulent coronavirus relief benefits in March of
A New York man pleaded guilty on Thursday to a $1.9 million scheme that involved selling fraudulently obtained baby formula.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been accused of taking more than $2 billion in “loans and payments” from the firm during his time as CEO. Democrat megadonor SBF faces allegations of committing massive fraud using his cryptocurrency exchange and trading firm.
Police are appealing for more potential victims to come forward, with the fake birth ‘fetishist’ charged with sexual assault and fraud.
A woman who once worked at a VA hospital was sentenced to 70 months in prison for using stolen information to commit over $250,000 in fraud.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest on Wednesday of flamboyant Chinese billionaire Ho Wan Kwok — known by multiple aliases including Miles Kwok, Miles Guo, and Guo Wengui — on charges of allegedly orchestrating a “sprawling and complex” fraud scheme that enriched him and an associate to the tune of over $1 billion.
A Turkish national with an unenforced deportation order has been convicted for the 32nd time and sentenced to six months.
At least $276 billion of “COVID-19 relief funding” was lost via “fraud” and “waste,” according to estimates from federal inspectors general.
President Joe Biden is requesting $1.6 billion to target fraud related to coronavirus aid, the White House announced this week.
Pope Francis has abolished housing discounts for cardinals, bishops, and other Vatican officials, citing a need to increase “revenues from the management of real estate assets.”
Carlos Watson, the CEO of the left-wing Ozy Media, was arrested for securities fraud Thursday morning.
Twenty-five people are facing criminal charges in a scheme out of Southern Florida that allegedly sold 7,600 fake nursing diplomas for more than $100 million, Forbes reported on Tuesday.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has reportedly been pulled back to court over his recent use of a VPN to conceal his internet activity, potentially violating court orders. SBF’s lawyers claim he only used the encrypted internet connection to watch NFL games including the Super Bowl.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) criticized the Department of Justice for refusing to participate in the Ways and Means Committee’s hearing into the COVID relief
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that he doesn’t “trust the government at this point” after the massive amount of coronavirus relief fraud and he doesn’t trust the Inflation Reduction Act due to what a
The State of California is attempting to blame former President Donald Trump for the fact that fraudsters stole $30 billion in coronavirus relief payments from the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD).
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) predicted that the amount of coronavirus relief that was stolen “will exceed 20%” of the aid and total over a trillion dollars.
Prosecutors say disgraced Silicon Valley star and Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is living in a $13,000-per-month estate and showing “no remorse” after being sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for deceiving investors in the failed startup that promised to revolutionize blood testing.
Tesla CEO and new Twitter owner Elon Musk attempted to downplay the impact of his Twitter account during a fraud trial related to his infamous 2018 “funding secured” tweet. Musk told the jury, “Just because I tweet about something doesn’t mean people believe it or will act accordingly.”
The State of California is warning residents who may have received a tax “refund” in the form of a bank card to withdraw their funds as soon as possible because thieves are targeting the refunds in fraud scams.
Former President Donald Trump’s company was hit with a $1.6 million fine on Friday for a scheme in which his top executives were found to have dodged personal income taxes on job emoluments.
PRAGUE (AP) – Populist billionaire Andrej Babis leads a field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial but prestigious post of the Czech president.
A woman was sentenced Friday to three years in New Jersey State Prison for her part in a well-known $400,000 GoFundMe scam that defrauded more than 14,000 people.
An illegal alien defrauded pedestrians of at least $80,000 over the last year by playing a violin outside stores and claiming to be collecting money for his sick child, the Palm Beach County, Florida Sheriff’s Office alleges.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” House Oversight Committee member Rep. James Comer (R-KY) stated that looking at the money spent under the coronavirus relief packages and looking into the large amounts of fraud in unemployment insurance and
A Florida pastor and his son are accused of fraudulently obtaining over $8 million in federal coronavirus relief funds for their family-run Christian ministry.
A New Jersey man who defrauded several women by making false romantic promises through telephone dating services, and escaped federal custody in July 2020, was sentenced to five and a half years in prison Wednesday.
Disgraced Theranos COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison on Wednesday for fraud following the blood-testing startup’s implosion. Balwani and his girlfriend Elizabeth Holmes were found guilty of defrauding investors with claims if miracle blood test technology that never worked.
