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A woman who allegedly defrauded the United States Army out of $100 million apparently does not have to worry about losing her retirement.

A bomb threat was made at the home of the judge overseeing the Donald Trump bank fraud case in New York, according to multiple reports Thursday.

Tesla CEO and X/Twitter owner Elon Musk has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a prior settlement with the SEC that mandates pre-approval of his tweets about his car company. The SEC’s “Twitter sitter” rule was imposed on Musk after his infamous “funding secured” tweet about a bogus plan to take Tesla private.

A former Jacksonville Jaguars employee is accused of embezzling more than $22 million by “exploiting the team’s virtual credit card program.” according to The Athletic.

A New York appeals court has temporarily suspended the gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump that silenced him.

Former President Donald Trump could potentially lose control over all his businesses and properties in New York and face a penalty of up to $250 million if New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud case is successful. 

Former President Donald Trump said New York judge Arthur Engoron, the presiding judge over New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud case against the former president, is a “democrat operative” and called on him to be “disbarred.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated that there should have been more guardrails on COVID relief, including the relief provisions passed in 2020, and “we could have prevented more of” the fraud on the

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) discussed theft of COVID relief money and stated that part of the problem is that the size of programs

Disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering charges. His lawyers decried his conditions in jail, including a lack of vegan meals, stating, “because he’s following his principles, [Bankman-Fried] is only now subsisting on a diet of bread and water.”

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street,” House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) reacted to President Joe Biden’s request for $40 billion in supplemental funding by saying that if he wants more money, he

Former NFL cornerback Buster Skrine was busted at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Wednesday as he attempted to enter the United States allegedly in possession of thousands of dollars in stolen money from fraudulent bank transactions.

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz says that under his own “fraud” standard, Special Counsel Jack Smith could be indicted for omitting a key portion of then-President Donald Trump’s speech in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.

The former principal of New Mission School in Boston, Massachusetts, has been charged with one count of wire fraud for allegedly engaging in a scheme to defraud Boston Public Schools of almost $40,000 by misusing school funds for her personal use, including

Officials charged a fourth suspect in a fraud scam that caused Home Depot stores in Chicago to lose millions of dollars.

A family is in trouble for raking in millions of dollars through alleged recycling fraud in Riverside County, California.

Alex Mashinsky, the founder of Celsius Network, was arrested this week on federal securities fraud charges. The crypto lending platform also agreed to pay a $4.7 billion settlement to regulators over its past mistreatment of investors.

Bank of America agreed to part with a total of $250 million in fines and compensation Tuesday to settle claims the bank systematically double-charged customers fees, withheld promised credit card bonuses and opened fake accounts without customer authorization.

A California man allegedly took over $830,000 in his mother’s social security payments and veteran benefits for more than 30 years after her death.

A rule from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), meant to protect American professionals from H-1B visa fraud, was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday.

Various reports are credibly-accusing Meghan Markle of faking some of the interviews on her now-canceled Spotify podcast Archetypes.

A 42-year-old mother of three children claims she lost her entire 401(K) to a scammer on Tinder as others have also reportedly come forward to speak on the issue.

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.