Some recent examples of mortgage
fraud schemes include:
Not exact matches
Bitconnect had recently been accused of running a Ponzi
scheme — the financial
fraud most famously perpetrated by Bernie Madoff — by several influential investors,
including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and billionaire cryptocurrency investor Mike Novogratz.
Pitino offered a statement on Tuesday, saying that «these third - party
schemes, initiated by a few bad actors, operated to commit a
fraud on the impacted universities and basketball programs,
including the University of Louisville.»
Another problem is
fraud: Israeli regulators warn that digital currencies are «fertile ground» for fraudulent activities,
including Ponzi
schemes.
If true, I agree with the U.S. Attorney's Office that these third - party
schemes, initiated by a few bad actors, operated to commit a
fraud on the impacted universities and their basketball programs,
including the University of Louisville.
Former Oklahoma State assistant Lamont Evans, Auburn assistant Chuck Person, Emanuel «Book» Richardson of Arizona and USC assistant Tony Bland and six others,
including Dawkins, have each been charged in the corruption and
fraud scheme.
Former speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested in late January and charged with running a multi million dollar
fraud scheme that
included payments from two private law firms.
Federal charges are being levied against top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco, the influential head of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Alain Kaloyeros, and others for a series of alleged
schemes that
include fraud, bid - rigging and bribery; Kaloyeros is also facing felony corruption charges from the state.
The 34 - page suit filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Tuesday accused Denenberg of a «cold, calculated
scheme» that
included at least 374 separate acts of mail
fraud over an eight - year period.
Mr. Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, was found guilty in Manhattan federal court on Nov. 30 on seven counts,
including honest - services
fraud, extortion and money laundering, for having conducted two
schemes that netted him $ 4 million...
The federal complaint against Silver accuses him of mail
fraud and the federal crime of theft of honest services, saying he engaged in a
scheme since 2000 to use the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself over $ 6 million,
including $ 700,000 in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income he earned as a private lawyer.
«Raising awareness of this type of
fraud and
including it in training
schemes for frontline staff can help overcome these issues, and with new technologies coming on line, it should be a challenge that can be tackled with some success.»
The rapidly growing field of social media
fraud, he says,
includes everything from phishing
schemes — where attackers trick people into giving up sensitive information — to identity theft.
Two doctors listed in incorporation papers were accused of insurance
fraud,
including a doctor who pleaded guilty to
scheming to defraud after his indictment in an alleged phony accident
scheme.
His previous experience
included a 10 - year spell at the South African Department of Justice, latterly as a founding member of the office for serious economic offences, where he worked on cross-border investigations and High Court prosecutions relating to bribery and corruption, stock exchange trading
schemes, foreign exchange
frauds and manipulations, pyramid investment
schemes and financial instrument forgery syndicates.
White - collar crime generally
includes securities
fraud, wire
fraud, mail
fraud, mortgage
fraud, health care
fraud, bankruptcy
fraud, insider trading, computer and Internet
fraud, financial and accounting
fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, conspiracy, telemarketing
fraud, commodities and futures
fraud, business opportunity
schemes, tax
fraud, identity theft, credit card
fraud, FEMA
fraud, perjury, obstruction of justice, criminal contempt, bribery, public corruption, and economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.
She has experience in handling investigations and prosecutions brought under a wide variety of federal criminal statutes,
including banking
fraud, health care
fraud, bitcoin
schemes, computer crimes, securities
fraud, mail and wire
fraud schemes, Ponzi
schemes, insider trading, government contracting
fraud, commercial bribery, Anti-Money-Laundering violations, and conspiracy offenses.
Today's legal news was dominated by Bernie Madoff's entry of a guilty plea to eleven charges —
including securities
fraud, wire
fraud, mail
fraud, money laundering and making a false filing to the SEC — all tied to his alleged $ 50 billion Ponzi
scheme.
She has served as lead trial counsel in bankruptcy and commercial litigation,
including alternative dispute resolution, and has considerable experience in handling
fraud and Ponzi
scheme litigation and bankruptcy appeals, which have resulted in published Ninth Circuit opinions.
In court, his practice covers not only the general range of commercial disputes embraced in his arbitration practice but in addition he has appeared as Counsel in a number of
fraud actions involving recovery of stolen property, Ponzi
schemes, resolution of disputes between shareholders / joint venturers, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious conspiracy, professional negligence, structured financial products
including Islamic finance.
The commercial litigators of Colson Hicks Eidson have decades of experience protecting the rights of both individuals and businesses affected by investment
fraud,
including Ponzi
schemes.
I have represented clients in a variety of corporate and commercial litigation disputes,
including contract disputes, shareholder disputes, oppression remedy matters, director and officer liability, complex commercial disputes,
fraud recovery (
including complex and organized
schemes), construction liens, tendering law, and bankruptcy matters.
To seek to avoid detection, construction
fraud is often perpetrated through a wide variety of differing
schemes,
including:
Recent notable federal cases
include representing a college student charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice in the aftermath of Boston Marathon bombing; a pharmacist charged with a multimillion - dollar online prescription drug
fraud scheme in the SDNY; and a prominent rabbi charged with kidnapping as a result of an...
That statutory
scheme sets forth that judicial review of the Award is limited to vacatur or modification of the Award on specifically enumerated grounds,
including «where the award was procured by corruption,
fraud or undue means.»
It also accuses BitConnect of
fraud on several different counts,
including failure to properly disclose the identity of its principals, its physical address and place of business, its assets and liabilities, as well as the true risks involved in such investment
schemes.
14 individuals of MiningMax, a cloud mining Ponzi
scheme, were arrested by South Korean police with several charges,
including economic crime and
fraud.
Twitter users are collectively being conned out of tens of thousands of dollars per day via
fraud schemes involving accounts impersonating celebrities,
including Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin, the man behind the Ethereum cryptocurrency.
One
scheme includes an automated call that claims that you're a willing participant in tax
fraud and demands that you return the money.