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Two 23-year-old Southern California men have been indicted on charges of defrauding investors out of more than $22 million in cryptocurrency, according to authorities.
A California man who had frequently appeared as a guest analyst on the CNBC financial news network before being accused of fraud was arrested Saturday at a home in Port Orchard, concluding a ...
The incident is just the latest example of what the FBI says is a growing and troubling new form of fraud affecting unsuspecting landowners nationwide. FBI warns scammers are impersonating ...
The Benson Syndicate was an unusual, 19th century organized crime organization in the western United States which received contracts from the United States General Land Office (GLO) to perform cadastral land surveys of the public lands. It was led by, and named after, John A Benson (1845–1910), originally from Illinois and later a US deputy ...
The Bell scandal involved the misappropriation of public funds in Bell, California, United States, over a period of several years in the late 2000s.In July 2010, the Los Angeles Times published an investigative article on possible malfeasance in the neighboring city of Maywood, revealing that the city officials of Bell received salaries that were reported as the highest in the nation. [1]
Stephen Arnold Douglas Puter (January 6, 1857 [1] – May 10, 1931) was a criminal and author from the U.S. state of Oregon. [2] After being convicted of land fraud, he lived as a fugitive for several months before capture, wrote a book after conviction, received a Presidential pardon, and later was convicted of mail fraud.
California's attorney general alleges fraud by a Project Homekey contractor. Doug Smith. January 12, 2024 at 6:00 AM ... and all seven properties are now at risk of foreclosure, the complaint said.
Around 2014, Charles C. Liu and Xin Wang, a married couple and U.S. citizens in California, sought out investments from several Chinese companies while claiming that they were going to use the money to build a cancer treatment center, through which they would later establish a means for investors to obtain an EB-5 visa. The EB-5 program allowed ...