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He was formerly CEO of the National Center for Employment of the Disabled (NCED), which was based in El Paso, Texas. In late 2006, The Oregonian newspaper published articles alleging that Jones embezzled millions of dollars from NCED and, by extension, from the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Program, a United States federal program that helps blind ...
A North Texas construction contractor was sentenced to five years of probation and three months in jail after pleading guilty to fraud, Parker County District Attorney Jeff Swain announced in a ...
He showed inspectors tankers of water, with a bit of oil on the surface. When the fraud was exposed, the business collapsed. Herstatt Bank: West Germany: 26 June 1974: Banking: Settlement risk. Counterparty banks did not receive their USD payments, where Herstatt had received DEM earlier, prior to government-forced liquidation. Carrian Group ...
The bank shared its suspicion with U.K. regulators that Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme but failed to mention it to regulators in the United States. Over the next six years, JPMorgan Chase would admit to three more criminal felony counts while keeping the same Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, in place. (ref 1.1) Louisiana Pacific
The crime of major fraud against the United States (18 U.S.C. § 1031), which previously covered only fraud in government procurement and contracts for services, is amended to include a wider range of government involvement, including grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, transactions under the Troubled Assets Relief ...
Ten doctors, two pharmaceutical executives and two businesses have been indicted in a scheme to bribe doctors for prescriptions, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton ...
Scams included fraud in commodities, real estate, foreign exchanges, business opportunities, and market manipulation (such as pump and dump). [1] Khuzami explained that "fraud by well-known companies or high-profile executives gets the biggest headlines, but other scams are equally devastating to hard working families and retirees", and ...
The Texas bar association is investigating whether Ken Paxton's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct.