A military contractor known as “Fat Leonard,” the mastermind behind the worst public corruption scandal in U.S. Navy history, has disappeared just three weeks away from his sentencing.
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Mark Alexande Hopkins, convicted of financial crimes in connection with using the P2P cryptocurrency, called on the government to demystify’crypto law.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, Walmart failed to adequately train its staff, failed to notify customers, and used policies that made it possible for fraudsters to make purchases at its stores.
The United Kingdom and other jurisdictions have stepped up online gambling enforcement, but the U.S. hasn’t added more watchful eyes to the industry yet.
The $5 trillion in federal COVID-relief money approved in 2020 and 2021, with few strings and no oversight, has produced one of the largest frauds in American history. Some 1,500 people have already been charged.
All 50 state attorneys general have come together through the newly formed Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force to go after U.S. telecommunications companies that allow robocalls originating overseas to reach their customers.
Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana, was accused in court papers of insider trading during the $26.5 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. Others charged included tech executives and a man training to be an FBI agent.
Charges include some of the first prosecutions in the nation related to a burgeoning new scam involving cardiovascular genetic testing.
Daniel Broyles, one of the men at the center of two scams that traded on people’s hopes for new clean and green technologies, has pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering.
The two Miami men were accused of taking over small and financially vulnerable hospitals and used them as “pass-through” vehicles for over a billion dollars in fraudulent laboratory test billing.