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A former campaign fundraiser for Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) pleaded guilty on Nov. 14 to federal wire fraud charges related to impersonating a high-ranking congressional aide while soliciting donations for ...

In what the U.S. Attorney’s Office is calling the “largest fraud scheme” targeting a COVID-19 program for uninsured ...

A former U.S. Army Reserves officer who worked as a financial counselor with the Army was criminally charged ...

NEW YORK—A Florida man who dubbed himself the “Wolf of Airbnb” pleaded guilty to a wire fraud charge ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, arrived in the ...

On May 4, a federal grand jury found former the mayor of Tallahassee and former gubernatorial candidate Andrew ...

LOS ANGELES—A former executive director of the Democratic Party of Orange County pleaded guilty April 14 to a ...

The FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service are offering a combined US$20,000 reward for information leading to the ...

LOS ANGELES—A downtown Los Angeles man was charged Feb. 23 in a federal grand jury indictment for allegedly ...

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have dropped their case against a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer who had been accused ...

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been denied bail after his Dec. ...

Florida state Rep. Joe Harding has been indicted on charges of wire fraud, money laundering, and making false ...

A Texas couple is accused of defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program for more than $684,000. Patrick Kasong Muyej, ...

A Riverside County man was sentenced Nov. 14 to 102 months in federal prison for falsely obtaining over ...

Former Louisiana state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, a Democrat, was charged with one count of wire fraud by federal ...

By David J. Neal From Miami Herald A 7,700-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bathroom house and three units of an Aventura ...

A former San Francisco official has pleaded guilty to a string of bribes and corruption during his years ...

China-based Gree Electric and two of its subsidiaries, including one in the U.S., have agreed to pay $91 ...

Ed Mullins, the head of the NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association, has resigned from his role just hours after FBI ...

Prosecutors and defense lawyers are scheduled to deliver their opening statements on Sept. 8 in the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, ...

WASHINGTON—A federal judge on Tuesday declared a mistrial in the government's embezzlement case against Michael Avenatti, giving the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Federal prosecutors are seeking to retry a former University of Tennessee researcher accused of hiding his relationship ...

BOSTON—A former Massachusetts mayor first elected at the age of 23 was convicted on Friday of defrauding investors ...

NEW YORK—A Florida businessman whose fraud-busting business was exposed as a fraud itself was sentenced Monday to a ...

An American former professor was sentenced for concealing his participation in a Chinese state-run recruitment program, while a ...

A Malaysian-born professor was indicted by a federal grand jury in Arkansas on multiple charges of passport and ...

A former West Virginia University professor has pleaded guilty to wire and tax fraud in connection to his ...