Trump lawyers will ask an appeals court to shield him from Jan. 6 lawsuits

TAMPA, Fla.– Florida State Representative Joseph Harding has been indicted on six counts of wire fraud, money laundering and making false statements, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Wednesday. On applications for Economic Injury Disaster Loans, Harding reportedly claimed The Vak Shack had over $420,000 in revenue in 2019, while Harding Farms had gross revenue…

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the investigation involving former President Trump is "ongoing" in the aftermath of his family organization being convicted of tax fraud. The testimony of former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, who pleaded guilty to tax evasion in August as part of a deal with prosecutors, and Senior Vice President…

House lawmakers have dozens of questions for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, whose cryptocurrency empire went bankrupt last month amid allegations of fraud. The leaders of the House Financial Services Committee are pushing Bankman-Fried to testify at a Dec. 13 hearing about the FTX collapse and speak to his role in the company's decline.

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced that Essilor Laboratories of America, Inc. (Essilor) has agreed to a $23.8 million settlement in…

ST. LOUIS- Jeffrey Boyd, one of three former St. Louis City Board of Aldermen members indicted in a bribery scheme, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison. Boyd is one of three former St. Louis Aldermen facing prison time for their roles in the bribery and pay-to-play case. Former Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed also faces sentencing, while a…

Chinese hackers with ties to the country's ruling Communist Party stole at least $20 million in U.S COVID-19 relief funds, the Secret Service said Monday. A hacking group known as APT41 consists of the first foreign, state-sponsored cybercriminals that the U.S. government has acknowledged as defrauding American pandemic relief funds, according to a report…

Donald Trump's company was convicted of tax fraud Tuesday for helping executives dodge taxes on lavish perks such as Manhattan apartments and luxury cars, in a significant repudiation of financial practices at the former president's business. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the verdict "underscores that in Manhattan we have one standard of…

TAMPA, Fla.— Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced that she is suing a Florida real estate company for "swindling" homeowners. Moody said she filed a complaint for injunctive and monetary relief against Florida- based MV Realty. According to Moody, MV Realty offered homeowners $300 to $5,000 as a cash loan alternative in exchange for an agreement to use…

A federal judge in California sentenced disbarred attorney Michael Avenatti to 14 years in prison Monday for wire fraud and a tax offense. District Judge James V. Selna ordered that Avenatti's term of imprisonment run consecutive to sentences totaling five years previously imposed in two federal cases in the Southern District of New York, "the office said.

Sigillito and J. Scott Brown, a Kansas attorney, stole $52 million from their clients. Sigillito worked as an attorney in St. Louis in the late 1990 s. The BLP was formed as an investment program to prepare loans for an English law practice known as Mark Gilbert Morse, or MGM.

Caeshara Cannon, 32, of Colonie, was arrested on Monday, Nov. 28 after Sheriff's investigators and Bethlehem detectives executed a search warrant in October stemming from the fraud investigation. According to Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple, investigators found the weapon was defaced to remove the serial number and Cannon did not have a permit to have a…

According to court documents, Tyshion Nautese Hicks, 30, of Vienna; Shatara Hubbard, 34, of Warner Robins; Torella Wynn, 30, of Cordele; Macovian Doston, 29, of Vienna; Kenya Whitehead, 35, of Cordele; A'Darrion Alexander, 27, of Warner Robins; Membrish Brown, 27, of Vienna; and Edith Nate Hicks, 45, of Atlanta and others allegedly caused more than 5,000 fraudulent…

Donald Trump knew about Trump Organization executives’ tax-dodging schemes, a Manhattan prosecutor told a jury in a closing statement Thursday in the organization’ s tax fraud trial. Later, after the jury left the courtroom for the evening, Trump Organization lawyer Alan Futerfas openly complained that Steinglass had invoked Trump himself in his closing…

In a report released last week, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project detailed the North Carolina Retirement System’ s more than $3 billion in commitments to a firm called Landmark Partners, the largest stakes of any state pension fund nationwide. The report comes months after the publication of Security for Sale, a News& Observer and Charlotte Observer…

Philadelphia Attorney Pleads Guilty to Tax Charges. PHILADELPHIA– United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Conrad Benedetto, 66, of Philadelphia, PA, and who is an attorney licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, entered a plea of guilty before United States District Court Judge Wendy Beetlestone to multiple tax fraud charges…

A Correction Department captain, NYPD employees and a host of civil servants have been arrested in a scheme to defraud the U.S. government out of more than $1.5 million in pandemic relief funds, officials said Wednesday. In total, 19 alleged conspirators are facing charges, including 17 public employees, who worked for or recently retired from the NYPD, the…

The state has lost an estimated $11 billion in fraudulent unemployment insurance payments due to the New York State Department of Labor's mismanagement, according to an audit by NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli spanning Jan. 2020 to March 2022. According to the comptroller's office, the state had an average of $9.3 billion in loans from the federal UI trust…

ST. LOUIS- A Ladue woman was sentenced Wednesday for defrauding the U.S. government and taxpayers of hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic relief funds. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri said Rose Shaw, 65, pleaded guilty on Feb. 28, 2022, to one count of bank fraud. On May 11, 2020, Shaw applied for a loan on behalf…

Whatever scam fooled you into opening up your wallet, you're not alone: The Federal Trade Commission in 2021 received more than 5.7 million reports, including nearly 2.8 million reports of fraud and 1.4 reports of identity theft. Stacker looked at which states were impacted most by scams in 2021 and the amount of money reported as lost using data from the Federal…