fraud in connection with six fires that destroyed businesses he owned in Sun Valley and Massachusetts.
Preliminary findings by a grand jury showed that followers of Lyndon H.
Two reputed organized crime figures--including a Newport Beach man--and a third man who runs an investment firm have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges they schemed to defraud General Enertech Corp. stockholders by illegally transferring hundreds of thousands of shares of the firm's stock.
Compton City Councilman Floyd James and his campaign manager were ordered to stand trial on charges that they tried to buy votes in James' successful reelection bid in June, 1985.
, he was arrested by an investigator for the state Department of Corporations on securities fraud
A federal appeals court agreed Thursday with a former Dutch journalist who contended that he was improperly sentenced for his admitted part in a scheme that cheated thousands of European investors who paid millions of dollars for desolate American land at highly inflated prices.
A retired North Hollywood insurance agent has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty of being involved in a scheme to defraud about $1 million from United Insurance Co. of America, for whom he worked for 30 years.
An Anaheim tax and investment counselor who is the target of a federal investigation induced customers to invest in land and gold mines he did not actually own, as well as in a country-and-western record album, a movie entitled "Crypt of Dark Secrets" and fields of Jerusalem artichokes that ended...
More than two years after he was acquitted in his celebrated drug smuggling case in Los Angeles, former auto maker John Z.
Ten associates of Lyndon H.
the scheduled trial of one of the nation's biggest defense industry fraud cases.
arraigned Monday on mail fraud and racketeering charges stemming from the alleged issuance of about $15-million worth of phony mortgage bonds.
Theft and insurance fraud charges against former Hermosa Beach Fire Chief Ronald Simmons were
Two reviews of last month's mayoral primary in Chicago have uncovered "massive" vote fraud and
the largest welfare fraud in U.S. history, is back behind bars--less than a year after being paroled from state prison.
Federal authorities Friday arrested a Santee man they say bilked $75,000 from people who paid $5 or $10 for information on low-interest loans from the suspect and his wife.
The Costa Mesa, Calif., drug maker was accused Friday, in a shareholder lawsuit, of fraudulently inflating its stock price.
The Philippines' leading independent poll-watching group said Monday that it has discovered evidence of minor cheating in the congressional elections by members of President Corazon Aquino's coalition.
Coupon fraud is a type of illegal activity that has been affecting retailers and consumers for many
Police are searching for a 71-year-old Van Nuys man suspected of renting a house to at least nine people at the same time and bilking the prospective tenants out of about $15,000, authorities said Tuesday.