Sentences with phrase «fraud schemes»

A federal appeals court has considered whether a participant in a mortgage fraud scheme could recover from an appraiser for damages suffered when he also became a victim of the scheme.

The most common fraud schemes involve automobile property and automobile accidents.

Today's consumers need to be aware that there is a huge and growing market for ever increasingly complex fraud schemes aimed at car insurance policy holders.

Three individuals who were involved in an international romance fraud scheme were sentenced this week.

«During and just after the holidays is when many fraud schemes pick up, as more people feel stretched with greater year - end expenses,» he says.

Don't let that dream trip turn into «too good to be true» by staying on the lookout for these travel fraud schemes.

Real estate professionals need to know these common online fraud schemes and the information that will help keep them, and their clients, protected.

A chief executive of what once was the largest privately held mortgage lending company in the country was sentenced to prison for his part in a $ 3 billion mortgage fraud scheme.

Continue reading below to learn how auto insurance fraud works, what the common insurance fraud schemes are, and how auto insurance fraud affects you.

A Manhattan judge sentenced the head of a mobile - phone aggregation company to 10 years in prison for a multimillion - dollar fraud scheme in which consumers were charged for unsolicited text messages containing horoscopes, trivia and celebrity gossip.

Earlier in the year, the former Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with running a multimillion dollar fraud scheme through manipulation of his connections with two private law firms.

Canadians are frequently the victims of Internet scams originating in Ghana, which is a base for commercial and Internet fraud schemes in the region.

By judicial appointment, we routinely represent victims of Ponzi and other investment fraud schemes in bankruptcy cases stemming from fraudulent actors and operations.

Fighting Back Learning that your client, or one of your agents» clients, has lost their down payment in a wire fraud scheme rates high on the «bad news» list.

HCRA, a tax that insurers have paid since the late 90s under health reform legislation enacted during the Pataki administration, has come under scrutiny recently because of the role the tax's collections paid in an alleged fraud scheme by former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver.

A former NFL player was sentenced Friday for his role in a South Florida - based $ 7 million mortgage fraud scheme targeting distressed homeowners nationwide, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

A former income partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced for his role in a securities fraud scheme by convicted former drug company CEO Martin Shkreli.

Massachusetts lawyers continue to be successfully targeted by email and internet fraud schemes which many times involve IOLTA accounts.

Vincent Delazzero and Ralph Petrillo, owners of two of the largest marble and stone contracting companies in the metropolitan area, plead guilty Monday in White Plains federal court to participating in a tax fraud scheme designed to evade taxes on profits made from a collusive bidding scheme in which both participated.

U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim detailed during a press conference on Tuesday the alleged fraud scheme involving Adidas representatives, college basketball programs and athletes.

Lee B. Farkas, who federal prosecutors have considered the «mastermind» behind one of the largest bank fraud schemes in history, was sentenced on Thursday to 30 years in prison.

These resources, tools and on - site education are provided to seniors housing executive directors to help address the $ 50 billion lost in financial fraud schemes, annually.

Earlier in the year, then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with running multi-million dollar fraud scheme through manipulation of his connections with two private law firms.

Like global warming itself, education now became a massive fraud scheme designed to enrich the GLOBAL WARMING CULT.

In... Standard Hotel — Police in northern Inner Mongolia have detained 166 people in a telecom fraud scheme that targeted Chinese migrant workers through online

Even as the California real estate market was moving along at top speed in 2007, some industry professionals were tempting fate with fraud schemes.

As a member of that office's Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, he investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of securities industry related matters, including accounting fraud schemes, market manipulation, insider trading and investment adviser fraud.

In July, the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network levied a $ 110 million fine against the Russia - based cryptocurrency exchange BTC - e for facilitating «transactions involving ransomware, computer hacking, identity theft, tax refund fraud schemes, public corruption, and drug trafficking.»

About 600 LIRR retirees will lose their disability benefits after a federal agency voted last week to halt the payments following a sweeping investigation into what prosecutors have called a major disability fraud scheme.

Investigators in West Vancouver have been in touch with Toronto Police Services, where five other victims have apparently been scammed out of over $ 5.1 million in similar fraud schemes.

Given the presence of large - scale fraud schemes, it's unlikely Visa is going to come after every little corner store owner who charges a naughty 50 - cent surcharge.

Three Medicare fraud schemes in recent weeks have targeted a total $ 139.4 million, which led the Department of Justice to seek multiple convictions and a combined 33 years in prison sentences.

We saw a number of similarities in the scenarios that they described to us, leading us to conclude there was a large scale and organized fraud scheme targeting Ontario lawyers.

Some recent examples of mortgage fraud schemes include:

In a widespread fraud scheme, Eric and Charmagne Elegado who are well known in California, have been accused of getting rich fraudulently.

When she learned that law enforcement was investigating her various fraud schemes, she pressured witnesses to lie to the FBI and cover them up.

State prosecutors portrayed Morris as the driving force in the pension fund fraud scheme that has netted a number of political operatives, financiers and, just recently, former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi.

Coggeshall says: «As fraud schemes evolve, this can track them.»

«Parlaying his privileged background, Caspersen concocted a wild fraud scheme that involved made - up private equity ventures, fake email addresses, and fictional financiers.»

A fugitive gave himself up nearly four years after being charged in one of the Justice Department's largest credit card fraud schemes ever, according to federal prosecutors in New Jersey.

«Today, joining forces with federal and state partners, we have put an end to an egregious and extensive charity fraud scheme which claimed to assist children with cancer and breast cancer patients,» Olens said.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Police Commissioner James O'Neill and New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Mark G. Peters announced the takedown of an expansive fraud scheme involving the city's towing industry.

NEW YORK CITY — The head of the city's correction officers» union was arrested Wednesday morning in an ongoing federal probe into the NYPD and City Hall for his part in a yearslong fraud scheme involving wire - tapped phone calls and bribes delivered in expensive Ferragamo bags, federal law enforcement authorities said.

A self - styled courthouse whistleblower whose lawyer got locked up in a violent fraud scheme dropped his $ 25 million slander suit against the longtime head of the state Court Officers Association.