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Crime and Justice News Archive

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Crime and Justice News

May 4
1 min

SEC Nearly Doubles Staff to Police Cryptocurrency Market Abuses

The Securities and Exchange Commission will nearly double the size of its team dedicated to policing cryptocurrency market abuses. It is...

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Crime and Justice News

Apr 7
1 min

'Synthetic Identity Theft' Causes Billions in Losses Across the U.S.

A new fraud scheme, called "synthetic identity theft," has arisen, reports Stateline. These frauds involve the swindling of a bank using...

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Crime and Justice News

Mar 13
1 min

Ex-Temple U. Dean Gets Prison Term For Falsifying School Data

Moshe Porat, former dean of Temple University’s business school, was sentenced to more than a year in federal prison Friday on fraud...

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Crime and Justice News

Feb 16
1 min

QR Code Scams Prompt FBI Warning

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people have become accustomed to using their smartphone cameras to scan small black-and-white square...

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Crime and Justice News

Feb 15
1 min

Romance Scams Up During COVID, Many Involving Cryptocurrency

Romance scams, like one detailed in the Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler,” already were increasing frequency before the...

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Crime and Justice News

Feb 14
2 min

Corruption Trial Opens in Case of Malaysian Government Fund Raid

Opening statements began Monday in the federal trial of Roger Ng, a former Goldman Sachs executive charged in a multibillion dollar theft...

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Crime and Justice News

Feb 8
1 min

Banker Sentenced to Prison in Manafort Real Estate Scheme

A Chicago banker was sentenced to a year in prison for a scheme to make $16 million in loans to Paul Manafort to gain influence in the...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 20
1 min

Fraud Case Against Trump Will Be Difficult to Prove, Experts Say

Just because the New York attorney general’s investigation into Donald Trump found that he and his company regularly fudged the value of...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 19
1 min

New York Attorney General Says Trump's Company Misled Banks

The New York attorney general’s office told a court investigators had uncovered evidence that former President Trump’s company used...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 10
1 min

Mixed Holmes Verdict Likely to Hurt Her Chances of Winning An Appeal

The mixed jury verdict Elizabeth Holmes received last week could hurt her chances of winning an appeal, the Wall Street Journal reports....

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 7
1 min

Three Friends Indicted in $4M Insider-Trading Scheme

Three friends used family ties to the boards of public companies including Designer Brands Inc. and Albertsons to get tips that gained...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 6
2 min

Italian Literary Scam Artist Arrested

In September 2020, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author received an email from a well-known book editor asking for a copy of the writer’s...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 5
2 min

Georgia Woman Gets 3-Year Term in $6M COVID-19 Fraud

A Georgia woman who fraudulently obtained more than $6 million in COVID-19 relief money was sentenced to more than three years in prison...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 5
2 min

How Holmes' Conviction Could Affect Silicon Valley

The fraud conviction of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes could do more than just send a once-celebrated ex-billionaire to prison. In...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 4
1 min

Elizabeth Holmes Guilty On 4 Counts

A federal jury convicted Elizabeth Holmes, who claimed to revolutionize blood testing, on four of 11 charges that she conducted a long...

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