(CNN) -- A New Jersey school employee is under fire for enlisting an impersonator to fill in for Lady Gaga, who was slated to talk to elementary school students about the dangers of bullying, school officials said.
Tenafly Public Schools administrators were alerted of the gaffe by one...
NEW YORK, -- The last chance to bid on convicted Ponzi scam operator Bernard Madoff's property will take place next week, federal authorities said.
The U.S. Marshals Service is auctioning 276 lots of Madoff's personal property, the last of the items up for grabs from the swindler's New...
<div>Quebec provincial police say they've uncovered an intricate identity-theft scheme that took $1 million total from more than 10,000 people.
In what is called a "phishing" scam, the fraudster sent his victims massive amounts of fake emails purporting to be from financial institutions and...
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NEW YORK – Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff said in a magazine interview published Sunday that new regulatory reform enacted after the recent national financial crisis is laughable and that the federal government is a Ponzi scheme.
"The whole new regulatory reform is a joke," Madoff said...
-- A former Continental Airlines sales agent pleaded guilty Tuesday to a $1 million fake voucher scheme that could result in a maximum of two decades in jail.
Victoria Scardigno, 33, of Weehawken, New Jersey, sold more than 2,000 fake travel vouchers for $500 to $600 each, according to the U.S...
An ad on a popular P.E.I. buy-and-sell site offering a baby boy for adoption has turned out to be a scam, RCMP say.
Tim and Stephanie Sock, who have adopted a child and are in the process of adopting another, discovered the ad while online recently looking to buy a pet.
The ad, which appears...
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The husband of a B.C. politician says he was held by Mexican police and had to buy his way out of custody after their rental car was struck by two motorcyclists while on holiday in mid-January.
B.C. New Democrat MLA Diane Thorne said her 78-year-old husband was driving in the city of Progresso...
They had to wait seven years, but seven Ontario men each collected cheques for more than $2 million Thursday, their share of a lottery win originally awarded to a woman now facing fraud charges.
The men, all friends and former co-workers who lay cable for a living, will each receive $2.1...
The mastermind behind one of Canada's largest frauds is about to be released after 16 months in jail.
Vincent Lacroix, the founder of the Norbourg trust fund, swindled $115 million from 9,200 investors. He will receive his conditional release from prison next Thursday after serving the...
Norbourg fraud victims Michel Vézina, left, and Wilhelm Pellmans, centre, join Jacques Larochelle, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, at a news conference Wednesday in Montreal.
Investors who lost money in the Norbourg investment scam will recover it all, Quebec's securities regulator says.
An...
LOS ANGELES – A judge has ordered a nearly four-year prison term for a man who posed as a Hollywood producer and fleeced investors out of $3.4 million for a phony show about the Department of Homeland Security.
Joseph Medawar pleaded guilty in May 2006 to tax evasion and conspiracy for the TV...
An Île-Bizard, Que., man that the RCMP has accused of defrauding taxpayers of nearly half a million dollars will spend the weekend in an Ontario jail before his bail hearing related to 58 charges.
The Mounties say Ahmad El-Akhal, 62, his wife Tahani Mohamad Hassan Ee-Akhal, 53, and Mississauga...
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Investigators of Madoff's fraud said they reached a $7.2 billion settlement with the estate of Jeffry Picower (right), who is survived by his widow, Barbara (left).
http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2010/12/17/n_madoff_picower.cnnmoney/
NEW YORK -- The effort to recover money for victims of...
Premises belonging to relatives of former telecommunications minister A. Raja were among those raided.
New Delhi, India -- India's Central Bureau of Investigation staged a series of raids at the homes and offices of people at the center of a national telecommunications scandal, a CBI official...