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Retiree, 71, Loses Almost $200,000 In Online Romance Scam

Online beau promised a gold ring with her name spelled out in diamonds.
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Black Market Wine Industry Means You Could Be Drinking Poison

Con men Hardy Rodenstock and Rudy Karniawan duped prominent wine enthusiasts out of millions of dollars.
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That Fine Wine You've Been Drinking Could Be A Knockoff

For aspiring criminals, wine remains a very lucrative field.
By Christine Haughney, FoodRepublic

I Was Catfished: This Is What I Decided to Do About It

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West Virginia Considers Big Step To Crack Down On Corruption

A state inspector general's office could disrupt the longstanding culture of corruption.
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The Academic Impostor Behind The Pit Bull Hysteria

Merritt Clifton is prominent not simply because he has been making noise for decades, but because he uniquely claims to be a rigorous statistician: a scholarly expert. People who hate pit bulls lean on this man's putative expertise. And he's a charlatan.
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