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New York residents and others may remember that Bernie Madoff was taken into custody in December 2008. He was sentenced to 150 years in prison after being convicted of perjury and other felony charges. Madoff ran a Ponzi Scheme, in which investors put money into a...
Former sports radio co-host Craig Carton was convicted of fraud in a New York court on Nov. 7. Carton told reporters after leaving the Manhattan federal court that while he was disappointed in the verdict, he respected it. Carton's lawyers are planning to appeal the...
New York officials have announced that former TV star Shannade Clermont from the reality show "Bad Girls Club" has pleaded guilty to charges of felony wire fraud. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said that Clermont attempted to make...
A fraud risk management summit featuring officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice took place in New York. The event was staged by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. According to...
A New York man is facing charges that he embezzled $3.5 million from a real estate firm where he was chief financial officer. Allegedly, the theft began in December 2015. The government began investigating when the company the man worked for complained about his...
New York football fans may know Mychal Kendricks of the Cleveland Browns for his performance on the field. However, the linebacker may longer play in the NFL as he was charged with insider trading on Aug. 29. Federal prosecutors allege that the football player made...
White collar crime prosecutions are turning toward trade and import issues in New York and across the country. Criminal cases linked to importers have grown by 900 percent over the past 16 years, and researchers say that trade fraud is costing millions of dollars of...
The president and CEO of a credit union in New York has been charged in relation to embezzlement from that company. The embezzling went on from at least 2013 to 2018 and involved millions of dollars. The man allegedly used a number of different methods to cover up his...
A former employee of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is on trial in Manhattan for allegedly engaging in insider trading. After leaving public service, the man subsequently consulted for hedge funds. According to reports, the man is accused of passing...
On Jan. 12, a 36-year-old man was sentenced to five years in a New York prison for his role in a text message scheme. The scheme worked by signing up customers for paid text messaging services without their knowledge. The charges had included wire fraud, money...
