Upstate New York Agent Pleads Guilty to Stealing More Than $50M From Neighbors May 1, 2026 By Michael Hill A businessman accused of stealing more than $50 million from hundreds of people in upstate New York as part of...
Ex-CEO, Ex-CFO of Bankrupt AI Company Charged With Fraud April 23, 2026 By Jonathan Stempel The former chief executive and chief financial officer of iLearningEngines, which provided AI-driven business automation technology, were indicted on charges...
Agent Allegedly Duped Customer Into Agency Investment in Third Fraud Charge October 3, 2025 For the third time in less than two and one-half years, a western Pennsylvania insurance agent is facing charges regarding...
Insurance Agent Earned Town’s Trust. But Officials Say He Ran a $95M Ponzi Scheme. August 19, 2025 By Michael Hill For decades, Miles “Burt” Marshall was the man you went to see in a stretch of upstate New York if...
Bernie Madoff Customers to Recoup $498M, Payout Tops $15B June 5, 2025 By Jonathan Stempel Former customers of the late Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff will recoup $498.3 million under a settlement on Wednesday with the...
Bernard Madoff’s Victims Collect $4.3B as US Government Fund Completes Payouts January 2, 2025 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. government fund to compensate people swindled by Bernard Madoff announced its tenth and final distribution on Monday, saying...
Georgia Investment Manager Charged with Siphoning $6M from GEICO August 14, 2024 By Insurance Journal Staff Reports A Georgia grand jury has indicted an investment manager, charging that he diverted almost $6 million from GEICO Insurance for...
Bernie Madoff Is Long Gone. The Lawyers Are Going Strong December 12, 2023 Long before cryptocurrency and Sam Bankman-Fried, the biggest name in corporate fraud was Bernie Madoff. Fifteen years after the FBI...
Texas Man Sentenced for Hotel Investment Fraud Scheme May 19, 2022 An Austin, Texas man was sentenced to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay $5,052,366.92 in restitution for his...
SEC Sues VW, Ex-CEO over Diesel Emissions Scandal, Alleging Massive Investor Fraud March 15, 2019 By David Shepardson and Edward Taylor The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing Volkswagen (VW) and its former chief executive Martin Winterkorn over the...