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A chilling excerpt from "Exposure: Inside the Olympus Scandal." 
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Federal agents raid a Lake County home in connection with a massive identity theft and tax fraud case.
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A federal jury in Manhatttan has found five associates of the convicted swindler Bernard L. Madoff guilty on 31 counts of aiding one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history.
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One of the largest fraud cases ever tried in Chicago has ended with Sentinel Management Group CEO Eric Bloom’s conviction on all 19 counts.
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When Kansas Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook introduced a bill last week to crack down on volunteer health care “navigators,” the Shawnee Republican was hardly responding to a real issue. But like a dutiful puppet, she was indeed responding to the political masters who are blanketing states across the nation with mostly conservative, legislative obstructions to rational and civil society.
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Can the Real Housewives Of Atlanta cast catch a darn break? Man...we guess not! According to Eben Gregory Cynthia Bailey's name is now being drug through the mud in Atlanta over what are being call...
Anonymous Hades's insight:
F.Y.I.
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney (R) took a hit at President Barack Obama on Monday, saying he favors food stamps over a strong military.
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The Justice Department has repeatedly and significantly overstated its efforts to prosecute mortgage fraud, an internal watchdog said on Thursday in a report that cited the department’s “disturbing” inability to verify its information.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
It's not that banks are too big to fail. It's just that the Justice Department simply doesn't care that the banksters are making them look bad. Besides, the DOJ is gonna get paid anyway.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) is involved in fresh acquisitions it was aware of a ponzi scheme and didn’t take action to stop it. (Beyond Madoff, does JPMorgan Chase have a special talent for turning a blind eye to Ponzi schemers?
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It's the same old thieves. It's just a different day, and a fresh batch of victims.
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A recent $400 million swindle against a Citibank affiliate in Mexico demonstrates the systemic challenges of finding safe lending clients in regions subject to cronyism and sudden policy shifts.
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A new scam is costing innocent people hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. Here’s what you need to know to protect yourself. Several suppliers of electricity that service various markets in the United States recently more than doubled their rates without any warning to customers. Some of the firms involved apparently [...]
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Two Romanians were suspected of trying to steal the card numbers and PINs of customers at a Chase branch on the northern edge of Park Slope.
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Got an ATM card? If so, your favorite machine may now be a target for fraud. Good luck.
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The federal government is investigating GM for hiding problems with some of its cars' ignition systems as it went through bankruptcy. The curious thing is that it is unclear what GM would have gained. In contrast, the government itself hid information from investors to profit from stock sales. Where is that investigation?
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Online ad fraud is rampant, so why has so little been done about it?
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Federal officials are accusing a California state senator of conspiracy to deal firearms and wire fraud.
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Two Glendale store owners were accused of participating in a multimillion dollar food-stamp fraud scheme that investigators claim is one of the largest cases in Arizona history, according to the Attorney General's Office.
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The most important task for Kansas lawmakers is to comply with a court order to fix funding inequalities among wealthy and poor school districts. But it won’t be easy. Some controversial elements are likely to remain in the bill. And there’s also the matter of where the Legislature and governor are going to come up with $129 million.
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Originally published on PV Solar Report.
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On public assistance forms they filled out yearly, they forgot to mention their $1.2 million yacht docked in Florida, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Friday as he announced welfare fraud charges against the couple.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge wrestled on Thursday with a U.S. Justice Department request that Bank of America Corp pay $2.1 billion in penalties after being found liable for fraud over defective mortgages
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Question: Why aren't the backstabbing cheats at Bank of America behind bars yet?!
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Samuel Ray Palasota, 53, of Houston, who portrayed himself as a pastor running a religious-themed investment program has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for fraud.
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London-based dealers suspended as part of an investigation into the £3 trillion-a-day market
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Bust the parasites of finance, lock them up and throw away the keys.
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Salesmen” allegedly try to convince homeowners to switch services.
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The difference between computer users who get scammed and those who don’t often comes down to a simple checklist: In just-released research, AARP identifies 15 particular behaviors, life situations...
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It's time to go back to time-tested methods of investigation that involve patience and attention to detail, while keeping pace with new technologies that provide the tools for success.