Business Report:
Insurance fraud has increased dramatically during the present tougher financial times, according to leading authorities in the industry. (Read More)
NY Post:
Former Vivendi SA Chief Executive Officer Jean-Marie Messier called claims that he defrauded investors "outrageous" during his testimony yesterday at a jury trial in Manhattan. "It is just outrageous to say I engineered inv (Read More)
WSJ.com: What's News US:
From his boyhood in a Las Vegas motel to his final days in a California mansion, Danny Pang charmed and deceived. He left a trail of clues: gambling debts, a murdered wife and investors crying fraud.
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New York Times:
A longtime season-ticket holder has sued the Giants and the Jets, alleging that they violated antitrust and consumer fraud laws.
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Washington Post:
A Kuwaiti-owned company indicted in Atlanta this week for alleged fraud in connection with a multibillion-dollar contract to supply food and other products to coalition troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan won a court delay Frid (Read More)
SF Gate:
The collapse of a Bend real estate development company has resulted in charges against 13 people in what prosecutors say is the largest Oregon fraud case to emerge from the national real estate boom and bust. A federal grand (Read More)
The Guardian:
Thierry Henry's calculated handball showed football is all about getting away with what you can when you canIt is understood that the canonisation of Thierry Henry has been postponed indefinitely. During his eight years at Ar (Read More)
SF Gate:
A former kosher slaughterhouse manager convicted of financial fraud has asked for an acquittal or new trial, saying prosecutors unfairly brought in evidence of immigration violations. In a motion filed late Thursday, Sholom R (Read More)
The Guardian:
By forcing a flawed model of democracy on Afghans, the US has made Afghanistan less stable and less democraticThe fiasco of the elections in Afghanistan has been widely lamented. Most laments focus on a single obvious fact: b (Read More)
SF Gate:
A Louisiana businessman was charged Friday with engaging in a Ponzi scheme to defraud about 160 investors _ mostly elderly people _ out of roughly $19.5 million and using some of the money to pay for cars, cruises, sports tic (Read More)
Huffington Post:
The Internal Revenue Service is giving tax rebates to first-time buyers, and soon to move-up buyers, in a program beset by accusations of fraud. And the government agency that issues mortgage insurance, the Federal Housing Ad (Read More)
Reuters: Private Equity:
ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov 20 (Reuters) - Minnesota businessman
Tom Petters made a final push on Friday to convince a federal
jury he was not responsible for a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme
that bankrupted his company.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Max BlumenthalProgressive Book Club/Media Matters for America reviewIn August 2008, when then-senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said the media had held her under a "sharper microscope" because she was a woman (Read More)
FT.com - World, Europe:
Football scandals had seemed to be increasing even before Friday's news of what Uefa, the sport's governing body in Europe, called "without a doubt the biggest fraud scandal to ever hit European football". (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Investors contend a high-profile Florida attorney orchestrated a claim-sharing fraud with the help of the Canadian bank's U.S. unit and several accomplices. (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, and this one is likely to lead to more public confusionAnother skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle b (Read More)
UK News from Times Online:
A Sikh who claims that Islam is based on “deception, fraud and surprise attack” is set to become the first non-white member of the British National Party. (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier told a U.S. jury he "never, never, never" committed fraud as he took the stand on Friday in a civil trial pitting international shareholders against the French conglo (Read More)
SF Gate:
A federal grand jury in Eugene has indicted 13 people on mortgage and loan fraud charges arising from the collapse of a central Oregon development company. Acting U.S. Attorney Kent Robinson said Friday the actions of the def (Read More)