A major identity theft and fraud ring has been busted after allegedly stealing nearly $1 million. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office says the elaborate scam set up phony businesses and then created employees for the businesses who filed for unemployment benefits.
Zanthia Woodard, 46, was the target of a CBS4 Investigation in 2014. The Attorney General’s Office calls Woodard the alleged mastermind of the fraud ring that cheated federal and state agencies out of nearly $1 million.
For the third time in a two-week span, authorities swarmed a Las Cruces church on Friday morning, where a groundskeeper found a suspicious device hidden in a plastic sprinkler box.
The maintenance worker discovered the device about 9:30 a.m. on the grounds of First Presbyterian Church, 200 E. Boutz Road, according to the Las Cruces Police Department. The church is across the street from Las Cruces High School.
Randy Sowers built his dairy farm over three decades into a thriving business. After kick-starting with a $100,000 loan, today the South Mountain Creamery has 1,000 cows and 70 employees delivering milk, ice cream and other products to homes in the Washington, D.C., area.
U.S. law is clear that consumer review websites aren’t liable for their users’ reviews. However, plaintiffs are increasingly challenging how review websites publicly describe their review databases. A recent court ruling against Angie’s List highlights how plaintiffs are tendentiously parsing review websites’ disclosures–and making progress in court doing so.
As low as it goes, federal investigators say…
Fort Benning soldiers – including hospital patients and men and women deployed to Afghanistan – were among the victims of a ID theft ring that targeted thousands of Georgia and Alabama residents.
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A former Oklahoma town trustee accused of using inmates to steal copper from the city’s tornado warning sirens was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of trying to intimidate witnesses from testifying against him in the case, police said.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thirty-two members and associates of a Long Beach street gang have been indicted on charges of operating a $14.3 million identity theft and tax fraud scheme, authorities said Monday.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has been criticized lately for not pursuing enough big fish. The SEC may have three on its line.
The SEC is working with other authorities to soon file charges in an investigation combining insider trading and cybersecurity, according to a report in the New York Times.The agency is also investigating the hiring of the children of elite Chinese political figures in a potential bribery case. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and some other big banks have said they are under investigation for their hiring practices in China.
This spring, investigators discovered mass graves of human trafficking victims in Malaysia. How did the US State Department respond? By upgrading its assessment of Malaysia’s human rights efforts. According to Reuters, trafficking experts in the department had given the country a poor rating, but political appointees overruled them.
There’s only one reason why the State Department would change Malaysia’s status: to ease the country’s inclusion in the Trans Pacific Partnership, or TPP — a massive 12-country trade and investment pact currently being negotiated by the Obama administration.
The Dark Web has been at the heart of an ongoing probe into an international drug trafficking operation, an investigation that started in Grand Forks.