fraud

New York Congressman George Santos pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of fraud, money laundering, and theft of public funds.

There’s a dangerous new frontier for fraud: the online job hunt. Slick identity thieves are tricking gobs of people who just want to find work.  It happened to San Francisco resident Diego Martinez.

A South Florida man has been sentenced to six years and two months in federal prison for trying to obtain more than $4.2 million in COVID-19 relief funds by filing false loan applications. Court records show that 28-year-old Valesky Barosy was sentenced Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale federal court. He was convicted by a jury in December of wire fraud, money...

In an undercover takedown, Miami-Dade Police arrested and charged a man who they say tried to sell a bedridden elderly woman’s house using fake IDs, fake documents and stolen information.

Miami-Dade Police arrested and charged a man who they say tried to sell a bedridden elderly woman’s house using fake IDs, fake documents and stolen information. NBC 6’s Alyssa Hyman reports

Consumers lost hundreds of millions of dollars last year and they are expected to lose more this year as scammers continue to strike. Carolyn Johnson reports for the NBC4’s I-team on Jan. 18, 2023.

“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jennifer Shah was also ordered to forfeit $6,500,000, 30 luxury items, and 78 counterfeit luxury items, and to pay $6,645,251 in restitution, according to prosecutors.

U.S. government regulators charged eight social media influencers Wednesday in a $100 million fraud scheme in which they’re accused of promoting exchange-traded stocks, then selling their shares when prices rose.

A Florida pastor and his son were arrested Wednesday on charges of fraudulently obtaining more than $8 million in federal COVID relief funds and attempting to use some of the money to buy a luxury home near Disney World.

A man and woman have been sentenced to prison in connection with a fortune-telling fraud scheme that began in Miami and bilked a victim out of more than $3 million in exchange for lifting a family curse.

The Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” has resigned after being indicted on charges of defrauding a federal coronavirus loan program for small businesses.

Hackers linked to the Chinese Government stole millions in COVID-19 benefits, marking the first time pandemic related fraud is linked to foreign, state-sponsored cybercriminals.

U.S. Army officials say investigators have launched a broad review of at least 1,900 National Guard and Reserve soldiers who were swept up in a recruiting bonus scandal up to a decade ago and may have been wrongly blamed and punished. Army officials announced Thursday that its Criminal Investigation Division will review all cases and correct the records. Division Director...

A 23-year-old Coconut Creek man is accused of running a sophisticated scheme that involved writing fake checks, depositing them into different bank accounts, and then withdrawing as much money as he could before the checks bounced.

Jahmauri Horace Veitch, 23, is accused of operating a nearly $574,000 fraud scheme.

Kevin Bacon recently revealed his reaction to finding out he and wife Kyra Sedgwick lost money in one of history’s largest Ponzi schemes.

Roosevelt Permenter, 34, is accused of fraudulently acquiring real estate without the property owner’s knowledge

Roosevelt Permenter, 34, is accused of fraudulently acquiring real estate without the property owner’s knowledge

Donald Trump and members of his family committed a long-running bank, tax and insurance fraud that was “astounding” in its scope, New York Attorney General Letitia James alleged in a blockbuster and long-awaited lawsuit on Wednesday. And while the suit is only civil, James is referring the former president and his family to the IRS’s criminal division, and to...

Bank fraud related to new accounts is up 64% from last year