OKLAHOMA CITY –
You may have heard of civil asset forfeiture.
That’s where police can seize property and cash without first proving a person committed a crime; without a warrant and without arresting them, as long as they suspect that the property is somehow tied to a crime.
Now, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a device that also allows them to seize money on prepaid cards.
It’s called an ERAD, or Electronic Recovery and Access to Data machine, and OHP began using 16 of them last month.
A federal employee in Seattle helped expose a fraud in which an Army veteran lied his way to a Purple Heart and hundreds of thousands of dollars in government benefits.
Three current and former Navy officers have been indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and obstruction of justice in a prodigious scheme involving a contractor.
Retired Capt. Michael Brooks, 57, of Fairfax Station, Va.; Cmdr. Bobby Pitts, 47, of Chesapeake, Va.; and Singapore-based Lt. Cmdr. Gentry Debord, 47, were charged on May 25 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on charges that they accepted bribes of prostitutes, hotel stays, meals and entertainment from Leonard Francis, former CEO of Singapore-based contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia.
Twitter’s attorneys said in court papers filed Tuesday that it believes theJustice Department would bring espionage charges against the social media service if it publicly reveals how many of its users have been subject to government surveillance.
By evoking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. government is able to compel internet companies like Twitter for the records of account holders under the guise of national security. Through guidelines established in 2014, however, companies are prohibited from saying exactly how many of those requests they receive, and instead are only permitted to report the number of orders in ranges of 1,000.
The mother of the “affluenza teen” Ethan Couch was charged with aiding her son in his escape to Mexico last year.
A grand jury Thursday indicted Tonya Couch on charges including hindering apprehension and money laundering, according to a report by the Associated Press. Couch and her son were taken into custody in December after the two fled to Mexico after a video surfaced online of her son drinking, which violated his probation.
It was not uncommon for David Vocatura or other family members to make cash deposits at their bank – many customers at Vocatura’s Bakery, a nearly 100-year-old community institution, paid cash.
There are just 10 days left in the legislative session in Albany and still no agreement on any ethics reform legislation.
Recently, many of you responded to our petition and poll, making clear which reforms you want to see enacted before lawmakers go home. We took your responses to Albany to show them to Republican and Democratic leaders.
He slid out of a job — after getting caught stealing at Yankee Stadium.
A Yankees security official — and former cop — was fired by the Bronx Bombers for stealing team memorabilia, the Daily News has learned.
Former NYPD Detective Joe Flannino was caught lifting documents from a team archive room in the basement of the stadium, according to sources familiar with the situation.
The attorney general of New York filed a lawsuit against Domino’s on Tuesday, accusing the pizza giant of systematically shorting workers’ pay.
Fast-food restaurants are sued all the time for alleged wage theft. What makes this suit different is who’s included among the defendants: Domino’s itself, as opposed to just the franchisees who run Domino’s shops.
While it’s extremely unlikely that suddenly, more officers with the San Francisco Police Department are allegedly committing crimes, one thing seems evident: More of them are being arrested following Internal Affairs probes. Since March, we’ve seen at least four SF cops arrested following three different investigations, the latest one booked just yesterday for what police say is a case of overtime fraud.