Fraud

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Fraud

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 58 mins ago - 3 reports

UPDATE 1-SEC charges South Miami with fraud over debt deals

The city of South Miami, Florida, defrauded investors by not disclosing problems with the tax-exempt status of two bond deals, U.S. securities regulators said on Wednesday in their second municipal bond fraud-enforcement action this month. ... [Published XE - 58 mins ago]

Entities: South Miami (United States), Fraud, Municipal Bond

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 reports

European Union

EU leaders make progress in talks to crackdown on tax evasion and fraud

EU leaders make progress in talks to crackdown on tax evasion and fraudEU leaders have said significant progress has been made at a meeting today in relation to strategies to crackdown on tax evasion and fraud within Europe.The President of the European ... [Published Roscommon Herald - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Tax Evasion, Fraud, European Union

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 reports

HMRC failing to combat tax credit fraud and error

HMRC have made little progress in reducing error and fraud in the tax credits system, according to a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report that backs claims made by the National Audit Office (NAO) earlier this year.Tax officials missed their target to ... [Published Taxation - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Fraud, Public Accounts Committee, Taxes

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 4 reports

Ga. Rep. Brooks pleads not guilty to fraud charges

Georgia state Rep. Tyrone Brooks has pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges. ... [Published Atlanta Daily Report - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Fraud

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 4 hours ago - 6 reports

After botched probe, questions on accountability for Claims Conference chairman Julius Berman

Now that it’s clear that the top leaders of the Claims Conference got involved in investigating an accusation of restitution fraud in 2001, the question is who bears responsibility for failing to detect that a broad fraud scheme was underway?(The person ... [Published JTA - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Fraud, Greg Schneider, Resignation

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 2 reports

Labor recoups $15.3 million in fraudulent unemployment benefits

The department began using the Treasury Offset Program last July to recover the fraudulent unemployment benefits, according to spokesman Jeff Hentschel. The labor department was scorched by an audit earlier this year that showed the state had accrued ... [Published Tennessean - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Fraud, Unemployment, Labor, Social Security

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 16 reports

HMRC misses tax credit fraud target by £5 billion

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has issued a report that states HM Revenue & Customs failure to reach a government target of reducing tax credit fraud has cost the UK taxpayer 5 billion. The government requested in its 2010 spending review that reductions ... [Published MyFinances.co.uk - 8 hours ago]

Entities: HM Revenue & Customs, Claimant, Fraud

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 19 hours ago - 3 reports

HCSO:41 identities stolen by Tampa teen

TAMPA, Fla. - His name is Devonte Courtney Jackson. From old pictures posted on his Facebook page, you can tell he likes money and lots of it.But that Armwood High School student is now behind bars. On Monday, deputies say they found the 18-year-old in ... [Published ABC Action News - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Crumpler, Armwood High School, ACE, Fraud, Investigation

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 6 reports

U.S. asks federal court to deny S&P’s motion to dismiss fraud lawsuit

LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) — The U.S. Department of Justice, in a filing Monday, asked a federal court not to dismiss its lawsuit against The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. and its subsidiary Standard & Poor’s Rating Services.The DOJ filed its 25-page opposition ... [Published LegalNewsLine.com - May 21 2013]

Entities: Standard & Poor's, John Keker, Federal Court, Lawsuit, Fraud

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 21 reports

Dubai locks up Australian for land fraud

(57 mins ago) Foreign Minister Bob Carr has criticized as ';indefensible the length of time the legal process took in the United Arab Emirates after an Australian man was jailed for 10 years for property fraud. Businessman Matthew Joyce was sentenced ... [Published The Sydney News - May 21 2013]

Entities: Fraud, Dubai, Bob Carr

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 5 reports

Recruiter faces visa fraud allegations

A Florida woman was indicted by a grand jury in Florida on allegations of visa fraud for her role in bringing 143 Haitian workers to the U.S. based on false representations, the U.S. Department of Justice reported.The woman, Jetta McPhee, 59, of Tamarac, ... [Published Staffing Industry Analysts - May 21 2013]

Entities: Fraud, Allegation, Tamarac (United States), Conspiracy, Workers

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 4 reports

France Overtakes UK as Europeâs Top Card Fraud Victim, FICO Map Reveals

FICO, a leading predictive analytics and decision management software company, today published an updated map of card fraud in Europe that showed most countries experienced a rise in fraud in 2012. For the first time in years, the UK did not have the ... [Published CCR Magazine - May 20 2013]

Entities: Fraud, France, United Kingdom

Quotes

...Microsoft says it regularly scans message contents "for signs of fraud, and company managers may log the results indefinitely" according to Ars...

Think your Skype messages are secure? Nope, microsoft is reading Skype messages [Published ITworld.com - 16 mins ago]

"This hidden money could provide urgent finance for essential public services like health and education both at home and in poor countries."

EU leaders pledge to curb tax avoidance [Published Irish Times - 38 mins ago]

...He left behind an apologetic email confession to his partner and staff, which said in part, "I have done things unknown to any of you that have been financially devastating."

Suit Names Missing Attorney Timothy McCabe For Alleged Fraud [Published Law.com - Newswire - 44 mins ago]

Eric I Bustillo, Director of the SEC's Miami Regional Office, added, "Municipalities in South Florida and elsewhere cannot rely on a lack of internal procedures or experience in debt offerings to excuse fraudulent disclosures made to investors."

SEC Charges City Of South Miami With Defrauding Investors About Tax-Exempt Status Of Municipal Bonds [Published Mondo Visione - 55 mins ago]

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Blogs

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IRS Morality: Defend Planned Parenthood, Deluge... [Published The Corner on National Review Online - 2 hours ago] Earlier this week, in a feeble attempt at humor on Facebook, I posted: "If you haven't been audited by the IRS during the Obama administration, can you even call yourself a conservative?" Given the scale of the abuses, I should probably just shorten ...
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Audio/Video

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Ranking Member Waxman Statement - Hearing on "F... [Published Committee on Energy and Commerce - YouTube Channel - May 16 2013]
Hearing on "Fraud on the Elderly: A Growing Con... [Published Committee on Energy and Commerce - YouTube Channel - May 16 2013]
Energy and Commerce Hearing on Fraud on the Eld... [Published Rep. Peter Welch - YouTube Channel - May 16 2013]
Holder announces 89 individuals charged with Me... [Published CBS News Online - YouTube - May 14 2013]
Contrarian View : Fraud on the Rise [Published ABN Digital - YouTube - May 10 2013]

Press Releases

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The Law Firm of Wohl & Fruchter is Investigatin... [Published Business Wire - 2 hours ago]
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Amazon Web Services to expand in Fairfax County... [Published Business Wire - 6 hours ago]
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