fraud

One Chicago man cooked up an elaborate scheme that tricked two sisters out of $36,000 in cash collectively by using the brand of GRAMMY-winning rapper Chance The Rapper as a pawn in his diabolical scam.

Kimora Lee Simmons' estranged husband Tim Leissner, currently cooperating in the embezzlement trial of former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng, recently revealed in the case that one of his scams was using a fake email to pose as his first wife for years in an attempt to convince Simmons that he was divorced.

Nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday.

YouTube and Instagram influencer Omi in a Hellcat faces a whopping 514 year behind bars in after being indicted, along with two associates, in a plan to sell copyrighted cable network programs to thousands of subscribers via the Amazon Firestick. 

Ramon "Hushpuppi" Abbas, a Nigerian social media star who flaunted a luxurious lifestyle that the DOJ says was obtained through illicit means, has pleaded guilty to scamming and defrauding a businessman and others out of tens of millions of dollars.

Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is reportedly under federal investigation for allegedly using campaign funds to make personal purchases.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The relationship between a Japanese woman and a U.S. Army captain stationed in Syria started online, through an international social network for digital pen pals. It grew into an internet romance over 10 months of daily emails. It ended with the woman $200,000 poorer and on the verge of bankruptcy after […]

A Chicago woman is accused of stealing the identities of several people, including Taraji P. Henson. According to ABC 7, 29-year-old Alicia Newby is facing a felony charge of continuing financial crime enterprise after she allegedly gained access to credit card information and identified herself as one of her victims. She allegedly had merchandise delivered […]

Pamela Taylor, the West Virginia official who called First Lady Michelle Obama “an ape in heels” was sentenced to prison after defrauding the government of 18,000 in FEMA disaster benefits following June 2016 floods that claimed lives and delivered significant property damage. Taylor was sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 […]

Will Smith was hit with a subpoena that forced him to turn over financial records and personal email communications between him and longtime friend Duane Martin. According to The Blast, the trustee presiding over Martin’s bankruptcy explains in court docs that “Smith has turned over email chains between Smith, his rep, and Martin from 2018, where they discussed […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A former cast member of the television reality series “Bad Girls Club” has pleaded guilty in New York to wire fraud. Shannade Clermont entered the plea Thursday in Manhattan federal court. Prosecutors say the 24-year-old Clermont stole debit card information from a man who died shortly after a “prostitution date” with […]

Paul Manafort is on trial for allegedly committing financial fraud. Yesterday Rick Gates, his former business partner, took the stand and, “sang like Tyrese on the back of a bus.” He admitted to participating in crimes with Manafort and even stealing from Manafort. It might be time for his defense team to enlist the help […]