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Man Convicted Of Running Bogus $100 Million Bank Over His Computer

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2011 | Crime
Read More: Danny Ray Hardin, Bank Fraud, Federal Prison, Banking Frauds, White Collar Crime, Missouri Crime, Denny Ray Hardin, Private Banking, Mail Fraud, Private Bank of Danny Ray Hardin, Federal Fraud Charges, Video, Crime News

Money doesn't grow on trees and you can't print it on your computer either. That's the lesson Danny Ray Hardin, 52, learned Wednesday in Kansas Ci...

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Art Dealer And 'Career Con Man' To Be Sentenced

AP | By LAURA CRIMALDI | Posted 09.20.2011 | Crime
Read More: Rocco Desimone, Money Laundering, Art, Johnston Rhode Island, Con Man, U.S. District Court, Mail Fraud, Rhode Island, Crime News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former Rhode Island art dealer convicted of defrauding a wide range of investors – from a wealthy collector of Japanese sw...

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Fake Art Dealer Gets Nine Years In Prison

Posted 08.08.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Art Prints, Fine Art, Art Fraud, Chicago Art, Art Dealers, Scam Artists, Counterfeit Art, Michael Zabrin Sentenced, Michael Zabrin, Mail Fraud, Art Galleries, Chicago News

A Northbrook art dealer who played a crucial role in a multi-million dollar, international fake art ring was sentenced last week to nine years in pris...

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Iowa Man Gets 3 Years In Student Loan Scheme

Yahoo! Finance | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Mail Fraud, Kirkwood Community College, Student Loan Scheme, Cory Bailey Sentenced, Cory Bailey, College News

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- A 22-year-old Cedar Rapids man has gotten three years in prison for recruiting fake students to sign up for classes at Kirk...

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What Happens to Confiscated Art 'Fakes'?

Daniel Grant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Art Fakes, Mail Fraud, Fraudulent Art, Art, Art Fraud, Art Dealers, Art Forgery, Art Galleries, Fake Art, Arts News
Daniel Grant

2010-09-29-forgedart.jpgWhat to do with counterfeit art is determined on a case-by-case basis, often dependent upon whether or not the owner knew that it was a fake. Proving fraud, intentional deception, is often quite difficult.

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Steven Cohen Sued: Stevie Cohen Accused Of Fraud By Ex-Wife Patricia Cohen

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Stevie A. Cohen, Patricia Cohen, Steven Cohen, Sac, Hedge Funds, Stevie Cohen, Mail Fraud, Steven A. Cohen, Wire Fraud, New York News

NEW YORK — The ex-wife of one of America's richest men has sued the billionaire in New York for racketeering, saying he hid millions of dollars ...

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News
Gary Cohan

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

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Miami Man Indicted Over $132 Million Tax Fraud

Miami Herald | DAN CHRISTENSEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Tax Shelter Scheme, Mail Fraud, Tax Fraud, Cash Smuggling, Hibiscus Island, Business News

A big-spending Miami businessman who once owned fleets of planes, boats and automobiles was arrested Tuesday at his waterfront home on Hibiscus Island...

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