Highlights
A collection of news and information related to Fraud published by this site and its partners.
Displaying items 1-12 of 440
» View all items
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-37
•
Next >
-
Baltimore man, 81, loses his home following lottery fraud
The first caller told Norman Breidenbaugh he had won $2.5 million in a foreign sweepstakes, but there was a catch: Breidenbaugh needed to send $2,000 in fees before collecting his earnings. Other calls followed, promising Breidenbaugh millions more...
Tags: Consumers, Alzheimer's Disease, Nottingham, Corporate Crime, U.S. Secret Service
-
Bel Air payroll firm sued for allegedly keeping clients' tax payments
A Bel Air company that handled payrolls for many employers in the area is being sued by clients for allegedly stealing years of tax payments rather than sending them on to the tax collectors as required — leaving the companies on the hook....
Tags: Justice System, Employment, Labor Legislation, Music, Internal Revenue Service
-
Pennsylvania man wanted in federal 'Ponzi' scheme found in Harford
A Pennsylvania man, under indictment on federal charges for allegedly running a major "Ponzi" scheme, was recently arrested in Harford County on unrelated theft charges and then quickly whisked away by federal marshals. Istvan A. Merchenthaler, 42, is...Tags: Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Justice System, Theft, Prosecution, Punishment
-
Bel Air payroll company accused in lawsuits of stealing from clients
Accu-pay, a Bel Air payroll company, shut its doors Wednesday after a local business filed suit, claiming the company didn't pay withheld taxes to the IRS, and a judge quickly issued an order telling its owners refrain from destroying any documents or...
Tags: Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Justice System, Theft, Prosecution, Labor Legislation
-
Part four: Bankruptcy Inc.
Somewhere in the third year of Tribune Co.'s marathon Chapter 11 proceeding, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey looked out at a Delaware courtroom packed with high-priced attorneys and conceded the case had broken down into what he called a...
Tags: Justice System, Banking, Prosecution, Chicago Tribune, Colleges and Universities
-
Howard auditor 'hot line' takes reports of fraud, abuse
Michael Mershon can get pretty stirred up about lighting. He's been working in the business for more than 30 years, most of that time in Maryland, and said he's seen local governments waste millions of dollars on lighting jobs through contract practices...Tags: Ken Ulman, Local Government, Howard County, Corporate Crime, Ellicott City
-
Former Oriole Doug DeCinces indicted on insider trading charges
Former Orioles third baseman Doug DeCinces was indicted Wednesday, along with three friends, by a federal grand jury in California on securities fraud charges, for allegedly cashing in on inside information about the acquisition of an Orange County...
Tags: Justice System, Prosecution, Insider Trading, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Securities
-
Beltsville's Vocus misses fraudulent news release that touts fake Google acquisition
Vocus, a Beltsville digital marketing company that's growing fast, has a number of useful services for marketers and public relations pros. One of them is PRWeb, a news release service that disseminates business announcements all over the web. The...
Tags: Prices, Stock Market, Marketing, Google Inc., Vocus Incorporated
-
Morgan State professor indicted in fraud scheme
A full-time engineering professor at Morgan State University was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday in an alleged scheme to defraud the National Science Foundation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant funding. Manoj Kumar Jha, 45, who...Tags: Finance, Justice System, Prosecution, U.S. Army, Old Dominion University
-
Corzine looks to be getting off easy
I was saddened to see the small article inside the Maryland Business section of The Sun sounding the death knell for the investor lawsuit related to the implosion of MF Global and implying the futility of any further pursuit of Jon Corzine, the company'...Tags: Barack Obama, Corporate Crime, MF Global, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Unemployment Benefits
-
Ex-Wings to Go CEO pleads guilty to embezzlement charges
The former CEO of Severna Park-based Wings to Go pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud for embezzling more than $885,000 from the franchise company to pay for prostitutes and phone sex, the U.S. attorney's office in Baltimore announced. Mark Chandler...Tags: Advertising, Justice System, Finance, Court Preliminary, Banking
-
Will Wall Street prevail?
Corporate-sponsored groups have launched a campaign of litigation in the lower federal courts challenging the legality of the second major piece of President Barack Obama's legislative program, one that received a lot of attention in last week's first...
Tags: Consumers, Justice System, Securities, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Halliburton Company
Mar 6, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 1, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 1, 2013
|Story| Patuxent Homestead
Feb 28, 2013
|Story| Patuxent Homestead
Jan 16, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 10, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 28, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 27, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 14, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 25, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jul 23, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 8, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Original site for Fraud topic gallery.
