Corporate Crime & Lawsuits

Fraudster jailed for four and a half years

A FRAUDSTER who stole up to £120,000 from his victims has been jailed for four-and-a-half years. David Aves, 51, was sentenced for 23 theft and fraud charges between 2007 and 2008 at Ipswich Crown Court yesterday. The court...

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A Peruvian Black Market in Human Fat?

Medical Experts Dispute Lima Police Claims That Gang Murdered Victims, Drained Fat From Bodies to Sell to Cosmetic Makers A police officer displays two bottles containing human fat while another sets seized sticks of dynamite...

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SafeNet fraud case is settled

Stock option scandal spurred probe by SEC The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has settled fraud claims against five former SafeNet employees, including a chief executive officer who resigned in2006amid a stock option...

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Kuwait-based military contractor wins court delay

A Kuwaiti-owned company indicted in Atlanta this week for alleged fraud in connection with a multibillion-dollar contract to supply food and other products to coalition troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan won a court delay...

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You shall hang by the neck . . .

Last week, Channel 4 screened The Execution Of Gary Glitter, a provocative fiction which cast the convicted child abuser as the first victim of a reinstated British death penalty. As a tie-in, the station commissioned a survey...

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NIA exposes militant-politician-bureaucrat-contractor nexus in Assam

Guwahati, Nov 21 (IANS) The National Investigating Agency (NIA) has come up with some startling revelations about the politician-militant-bureaucrat-contractor nexus in Assam with government funds to the tune of millions going...

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Intel shareholder wants execs to pay $2.7B in fines

An Intel Corp. investor, frustrated that the chip maker has been hit with $2.7 billion in fines and settlement payments, has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Delaware against the company and its top executives.

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Not to our health

Existing gov’t plans rife with quackery By Deroy Murdock Saturday, November 21, 2009 - Fraud devours some $60 billion - or 13.3 percent - of Medicare’s $452 billion budget. Another recent report uncovered $18.1 billion in...

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Justices: Utah tax on escorts unconstitutional

The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that a state tax imposed on strip clubs is constitutional. In a ruling issued Friday, Associate Chief Justice Matthew B. Durrant wrote that the state's Sexually Explicit Business and Escort...

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Pension ruling may save Mpls. taxpayers $10M

Judge orders two police and firefighter funds to cut claims in 2010, which could reduce city taxes $10 million. Judge Poston has ruled plain and simple that these two pension funds have been overcharging the city for their...

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