Harness racing driver Raymond Gendron, charged with fraud in excess of $1,000 in an unspecified
fraud for enticing home buyers in Pennsylvania by offering one mortgage rate and then delivering a higher rate.
The Pasadena-based Paracelsus Healthcare Corp. pleaded guilty to mail fraud before U.S.
Two San Diegans who were part of an allegedly fraudulent oil and gas "boiler room" operation that raised nearly $5 million from investors nationwide have been arrested in San Diego and charged in a 57-count indictment issued by Oklahoma authorities.
A tiny competitor of Collins & Aikman, a unit of Wickes Cos., has filed suit against the large carpet maker, alleging that it "fraudulently falsified and misrepresented" test results submitted to Florida customers and attempted to win a monopoly by telling clients that the plaintiff's products were inferior.
The former Newport Beach businessman told a federal judge in Los Angeles earlier this week that he is not guilty of the 13 charges in connection with a precious-metals investment business he operated in 1980 and 1981.
A North Hollywood life insurance agent pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to two counts of aiding and abetting interstate transportation of stolen property.
A federal appeals court today overturned a jury award of $325,000 in damages to former TV anchorwoman Christine Craft, who contended that she was demoted because her bosses did not like her looks.
A La Mesa commodities dealer suspected of bilking hundreds of San Diego County investors of nearly $10 million before he mysteriously vanished in March was arrested Monday in Cincinnati by the FBI.
For nearly three centuries, Britain's venerable insurance market, Lloyd's of London, has withstood and richly profited from the periodic turbulence characteristic of the property-casualty insurance business.
fraud in the wake a March 5 municipal election in which a record number of questionable absentee ballots and absentee ballot applications were submitted.
Two Los Angeles businessmen were indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles Thursday on charges that they used a phony Dun & Bradstreet credit rating to purchase $1 million worth of television sets and shipped most of the items to South America without paying for them.
connection with a $57,000 insurance fraud scheme, state authorities said Tuesday.
A former Wall Street Journal reporter and two co-defendants went on trial today on criminal charges that they used the reporter's inside knowledge to make quick stock profits.
Percy Pinkney, who served in Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.'
this week because of a non-kosher poultry fraud, Israel radio reported Wednesday.
A Los Angeles federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted a former Fluor Corp. executive accused of accepting about $1.4 million in bribes from foreign companies seeking work on a giant Saudi Arabian petrochemical project.
John C.
Former Nucorp Energy Chairman Richard L.
A temporary California Lottery employee and her cousin were arrested in the theft of a $5,000 winning ticket from lottery headquarters, according to Lew Ritter, the lottery's chief of security.