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Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988. [1] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
One expert says banks are struggling to keep up with fraud investigations. This Denver woman’s savings account was accessed, drained of a whopping $7,363 by a scammer — but the bank first ...
In subsequent investigations, it was discovered that Friedrich was not an Australian citizen, did not possess any valid birth certificate, and did not appear on any electoral roll. This caused considerable embarrassment to the Department of Defence , which had given him a security clearance and almost unlimited access to Royal Australian Air ...
Three people have been charged with selling forged Jason Kelce memorabilia worth approximately $200,000, authorities in Pennsylvania said. Robert Capone, 51, of Philadelphia; LeeAnn Branco, 43, of ...
A former United States Postal Service employee in Charlotte, North Carolina was sentenced to prison for stealing more than $20 million worth of checks, federal authorities said. Nakedra Shannon ...
An internal investigation by the university released in 2011 and another investigation commissioned by former North Carolina governor Jim Martin in 2012 found numerous academic and ethical issues with the AFAM department, including unauthorized grade changes and faculty signatures, a disproportionate number of independent study class offerings ...
Combined, these losses make the fraud the largest in history. Ultimately, these losses will be paid by American taxpayers, and worse, because most of the money was borrowed by the U.S. government ...
The Fat Leonard scandal is an ongoing investigation and prosecution of corruption within the United States Navy during the 2000s and 2010s. It has involved ship support contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), a Thai subsidiary of the Glenn Marine Group.