Fraud

A 44-year-old woman has been collared for allegedly diverting funds of a business into her personal account for a span of two-years. The owner was using the business as a source of income to cover his son's medical bills.

A "witch cult" leader has been sentenced to death after hacking his Tinder date dead and chopping the victim's limbs into 14 pieces before dumping them in 2017, the Saline County Courthouse bared on Wednesday, making the criminal the 12th death row inmate in Nebraska.

A hospital assistant was arrested after using the cards of a dead woman to buy herself snacks in Birmingham. She admitted to the crime but escaped jail time.

A retired nun with an apparent gambling habit from Los Angeles has pleaded guilty to stealing and embezzling some $835,000 from a Catholic elementary school she had worked for for 28 years.

Jessy Kurczewski, 37, allegedly poisoned her friend with a lethal dose of eyedrops after stealing thousands of dollars from the victim. She also tried to make the death seem like a suicidal overdose, authorities said.

Megan Scotcher claimed to use the money to create “holiday memories” for her children and promised to split the money between them after her passing.

A former Make-A-Wish CEO in Iowa has pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of embezzling more than $40,000 from the charity meant for dying children and their families

A former obstetrician-gynecologist in Virginia has been jailed for 60 years for performing medically unnecessary surgeries and procedures on his patients between 2010 and 2019 in an elaborate health care fraud scheme.

By submitting fraud unemployment claims, the group reportedly stole $2m from the COVID-19 relief funds, Brooklyn federal court heard.

A 39-year-old serial rapist in Thailand has been arrested and charged after at least 36 female victims have come forward to offer their testimony.

A Rio dos Cedros father will face trial by jury after being accused of killing his breastfeeding wife and newborn son by spiking his partner's food with rat poison in Brazil.

A man in New York who dodged mortgage payments for 23 years reportedly, was able to save $440,000.

He found a rather unconventional way to receive gifts worth 100,000 yen and lied about his birthday to each woman.

The doctor who was scheduled to perform the delivery didn’t show up and in her absence, the delivery was performed by an "untrained" male staff.

The number of cases in Maharashtra will most likely cross the 1.1 million mark by April 30.

A Barcelona court has found soccer star Lionel Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, each guilty of three counts of tax evasion but it's highly likely they won't go to jail.

Giovanni Medina, Ninel Conde's boyfriend, could be facing serious fraud charges after two more victims decided to speak up and added their stories to the already existing embezzlement case.

Ninel Conde supports boyfriend Giovanni Medina amid fraud scandal. Here's what "El Bombón Asesino" had to say about the situation and the recent breakup rumors.

A Catalan court upheld the indictment against Argentine footballer Lionel Messi on Monday for alleged tax evasion.

The Argentine striker, Lionel Messi, is being investigated for charity matches he organized in Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

Sony Music is being sued for fraud over the Ricky Martin's "Vida," the winning son in “Sony Music World Cup FIFA Songwriting Contest.”

A one-time inspector general responsible for oversight of the Department of Homeland Security has been found to have had an improperly close -- and insufficiently independent -- relationship with top DHS officials.

Apple is under investigation by the Italian government for $1.3 Billion tax fraud.

“Notarios”, or unsanctioned, non-lawyer immigration consultants who advertise themselves as public notaries capable of advising immigrants on the finer points of the immigration process, have for a long time been the object of awareness campaigns by immigrant-advocacy organizations.

75 arrests have been made in a multimillion dollar fraud case that is being reported as the largest Social Security fraud case seen in the history of the United States.

A trend of visa fraud in the United States has seen citizenship-seekers from various countries pretending to be Cuban in order to secure the unique immigration privileges afforded them.

Teresa and Joe Giudice face bank fraud charges, released on $500,000 bond each.

Ana Torroja is being sued for tax evasion and fraud.

"Incendiary" pastor Jeremiah Wright's daughter has been indicted on fraud and other charges.

"Ocotomom" Nadya Suleman is under investigation for possible welfare fraud.