A recent Aite Group study indicates that Mexico has become the top spot for card fraud with even greater numbers of victims there than in the United States, which ranked highest in card fraud in 2014, but has dropped to third place this year behind Mexico and Brazil, where fraud has spiked during the past year.
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Former IRS employee sentenced to federal prison for ID theft, fraud
A former IRS employee, who helped taxpayers experiencing problems resulting from identity theft, was sentenced Wednesday to nine years and two months in federal prison for her guilty plea to stealing taxpayer identities and orchestrating a tax-fraud scheme with three other people involving up to $1.5 million in bogus income tax returns.
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Tennessee State Rep. Joe Armstrong found guilty of fraud
KNOXVILLE (WATE) – A jury found Knoxville State Rep. Joe Armstrong guilty of filing a fraudulent tax return.
The jury found him not guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States and tax evasion. Prosecutors say the fraud charge is a felony and Armstrong could face up to three years in prison.
U.S. Attorney Charles Atchley said the government will be asking the court to sentence Armstrong to jail time and that Armstrong could end up paying hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Please DonateFlorida becomes credit card fraud capital of U.S.
Tampa, FL – The numbers don’t lie. Florida is the credit card fraud capital of the nation based on the number of complaints to the Federal Trade Commission. The agency received the most credit card fraud complaints from Florida in 2015.
As you have traded cash for plastic, you’ve also put your personal information at risk.
Please DonateRed Bluff City Council member arrested for fraud
The Brevard County Jail in Florida confirms that Red Bluff city council member Suren Patel, 43has been arrested on fraud charges as an out-of-state fugitive.
Please DonateFormer Fox News commentator sentenced to nearly 3 years for lying about CIA ties
An Annapolis man who falsely claimed to work for the CIA was sentenced Friday to nearly three years in prison as a result of fraud convictions related to his deceptions.
A federal judge sentenced Wayne Shelby Simmons, a 62-year-old whose claims of CIA work propelled him into a guest slot as a terrorism analyst on Fox News and to work as a defense contractor, to 33 months in prison.
While Simmons entered a guilty plea to the charges in April, averting what would have been an intriguing trial that likely could have featured testimony from high profile witnesses including CIA employees and Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, he has maintained in court documents that he did work for the CIA for 27 years. In court filings, Simmonsdetailed several operations he claimed to have worked on — ranging from an undercover investigation of a heroin- and arms-trafficking organization involving Iranian criminals active in D.C. in the 1980s to an intelligence-gathering mission involving Kazakh officials in the 1990s.
Please DonateRep. Corrine Brown indicted in fraud case over charity ‘slush fund’
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida and her chief of staff have been charged with multiple fraud and other federal offenses in a grand jury indictment unsealed Friday after a federal investigation into a fraudulent charity with ties to the congresswoman.
Brown, a 69-year-old Democrat, was to appear later Friday in Jacksonville federal court on charges of mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, obstruction and filing of false tax returns. She has represented a Jacksonville-based congressional district since 1993 and is seeking re-election in a newly-redrawn district.
Please DonateJudge sets date to sentence former nonprofit CEO Jonathan Dunning
A federal judge has set Oct. 14 as the day she will impose a sentence on Birmingham Health Care CEO Jonathan Dunning on numerous counts related to health care fraud.
On June 17, a federal jury found Dunning guilty on 98counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.
The maximum prison penalty for conspiracy is five years, for wire fraud and money laundering the maximum is 20 years, and for bank fraud, 30 years, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Former NY attorney sentenced in fraud schemes
A disbarred New York attorney convicted of teaming up with a mob-linked con man from Glen Rock in a series of fraudulent investment schemes was sentenced on Tuesday to 3½ years in prison.
U.S. District Judge William J. Martini imposed a 43-month prison term on Pasquale “Pat” Stiso, 55, of New Rochelle, N.Y. for his role in schemes to fleece investors in ticket resale and real estate ventures.
Starbucks faces charges of fraud, false advertising over underfilled lattes
Starbucks has faced a barrage of charges this year that its cheating its customers by underfilling drinks, and now a federal judge has ruled that one of those lawsuits can move forward, allowing customers to sue the coffee giant for fraud and false advertising.
On Friday, U.S. district judge Thelton Henderson ruled in San Francisco that two California customers could move proceed with a suit that accuses Starbucks of cheating customers by regularly underfilling its lattes. According to Reuters, the lawsuit contends that the coffee chain overcharges customers by serving lattes that contain 25 percent too small, with baristas leaving 1/4 of an inch of free space in cups, and that it’s a policy that’s been in place since 2009 with a recipe that creates smaller lattes in order to save money on milk.