Jul 13 - By Larry Neumeister, AP Writer
Prominent money manager Mario Gabelli and related companies will pay $130 million to resolve civil fraud allegations that Gabelli created fake companies to gain an unfair advantage in the auctions of cell phone spectrum, the government announced Thursday. Complete Story
Jul 5 - By The Associated Press, AP Writer
Major incidents of fraud in Mexico presidential elections:
Jul 4 - By Associated Press
A woman who traveled the lecture circuit with her account of being raped and infected with AIDS as a child has been charged with defrauding the state of Pennsylvania of $66,000 by falsely claiming to have the disease.
Jul 4 - By Carole Bianchi, AP Writer
A French court on Tuesday convicted respected wine exporter Georges Duboeuf Wines of fraud after one of its wineries mixed a variety of grapes in its Beaujolais.
Jun 30 - By Kevin Freking, AP Writer
The agency that oversees the nation's health care program for the poor has yet to put into practice several recommendations that federal auditors made four years ago to cut down on waste and fraud.
Jun 29 - By Associated Press
A midlevel manager at the Homeland Security Department was charged with immigration document fraud on Thursday. Court papers indicated his conduct had been questioned for years.
Jun 28 - By Associated Press
A former medical college professor who researched menopause, hormone supplements and aging was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison for using false data to obtain federal grant money.
Jun 20 - By Curt Anderson, AP Writer
A federal judge Tuesday granted disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and ex-partner Adam Kidan three more months of freedom before they must begin their prison terms for fraud convictions.
Jun 20 - By Jim Abrams, AP Writer
Scammers hoping to finance tropical vacations or season tickets to football games with federal disaster funds may have second thoughts with House passage of legislation imposing sentences of up to 30 years for fraud related to disaster relief.
Jun 16 - By Associated Press
A man charged in Florida with having ties to a terrorist organization pleaded guilty Friday to processing more than $1.4 million in phony food stamp transactions at a grocery store he once owned.
Jun 16 - By Lara Jakes Jordan, AP Writer
FEMA is cutting back on the amount of cash it will give to future disaster victims in a nod to the rampant fraud that followed last year's hurricanes.
Jun 14 - By Larry Margasak, AP Writer
A FEMA official angered lawmakers Wednesday, after she cast doubt on a congressional study that concluded up to $1.4 billion of the individual aid doled out after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita was spent for bogus reasons.
Jun 13 - By David Koenig, AP Business Writer
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is financing a new Web site that will investigate stock fraud and corporate wrongdoing. The billionaire also said he'll buy and sell stocks based on information before the site publishes it.
Jun 13 - By Larry Margasak, AP Writer
Houston divorce lawyer Mark Lipkin says he can't recall anyone paying for his services with a FEMA debit card, but congressional investigators say one of his clients did just that.
Jun 8 - By Emery P. Dalesio, AP Writer
A state legislator was charged with doctoring 14-year-old checks to make it look like he had paid off a student loan debt of more than $20,000, court documents said.
Jun 7 - By Jeffrey Gold, AP Business Writer
A Miami businessman helped by a professional hacker penetrated the networks of Internet phone providers to connect hundreds of thousands of free calls, federal prosecutors alleged Wednesday.
Jun 6 - By Associated Press
Digitalized files of information detailing Parmalat's relationship with its banks should clarify "the truth" of the dairy company's collapse, Parmalat's founder and former CEO told reporters outside criminal proceedings on Tuesday.
Jun 5 - By Colleen Barry, AP Writer
A court opened the most important criminal proceedings in the $18 billion failure of the Parmalat dairy company on Monday, with 64 former executives, financial advisers and bankers facing possible fraud charges in Europe's largest corporate failure.
Jun 4 - By Colleen Barry, AP Writer
Two and a half years after the $18 billion collapse of the Parmalat dairy company, a closed-door preliminary hearing opened Monday in Italy's main criminal proceedings to arise from Europe's largest corporate failure.
May 23 - By Associated Press
A former chief executive of Sweden's largest insurer, Skandia Insurance Co. Ltd., was sentenced to two years in prison for fraud on Wednesday, court officials said.
May 23 - By Michael Graczyk, AP Writer
Prosecutors described Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay as a sophisticated hands-on investor who wanted to pry loans from banks so he could buy stock even though he knew federal rules prohibited him from using the money for that purpose.
May 23 - By Curt Anderson, AP Writer
A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday accused a disbarred attorney of defrauding thousands of clients out of $13.5 million in settlement money from lawsuits claiming they were made ill by exposure to asbestos.
May 23 - By Mark Sherman, AP Writer
More than 2.8 million people in the U.S. paid to obtain credit cards, claim sweepstakes winnings and get in on lucrative investments that turned out to be too good to be true, officials said Tuesday as they announced hundreds of arrests in an international investigation.
May 22 - By Michael Graczyk, AP Writer
Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay acknowledged Monday he violated federal rules covering loan agreements when he purchased stock with the loan money but said he never intended the actions to be fraudulent.
May 20 - By Associated Press
A half-dozen illegal immigrants are suing the Salvation Army and two of its former local officials for consumer fraud, claiming the leaders took their money under false promises of helping them gain legal status.
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