Bookkeeper pleads to stealing &#36;6.9M
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A bookkeeper pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling $6.9 million to pay for such things as a ranch in Vermont, a life-size statue of Al Capone and a private performance by singer Burt Bacharach, federal authorities said.
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Do not collect Â£28bn, do not pass go An Australian "lawyer" is part of a gang of six up before Southwark Crown Court accused of attempting to convince the Bank of England to honour a breathtaking Â£28bn ($64.83bn) in moody Â£1,000 and Â£500,000 notes, AFP reports.â¦
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Seymour M. Lazar was sentenced to six monthsâ home detention and a $600,000 fine for lying under oath about secret payments he received.
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A multi-billion fraud hits the country's second-biggest bank, leading to questions about how such insider schemes can be prevented
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A bookkeeper was sentenced to four years in prison for embezzling $6.9 million from a company to spend on such things as a ranch in Vermont, a life-size statue of Al Capone and a private performance by singer Burt Bacharach.
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A former well-known New York stockbroker pleaded guilty Tuesday to cheating his clients out of millions of dollars and generating fraudulent commissions for himself.
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A man who inadvertently left Â£1,200 in an item of clothing he gave to a charity shop is told the money has been banked.
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Six reputed members of the Gambino crime family pleaded guilty to ringing up more than &#36;650 million in unauthorized charges on telephone customers' credit cards and phone bills.
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Nine vendors have been charged with taking part in a scheme to inflate earnings of a Maryland-based subsidiary of supermarket giant Royal Ahold NV by more than $800 million.
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A building society worker's thefts are uncovered when a 92-year-old woman tries to take out cash, a court hears.
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Nine vendors have agreed to plead  guilty to creating false account records in a scheme that  allowed U.S. Foodservice Inc., a unit of Dutch retailer Ahold  N.V. AHLN.AS, to inflate earnings by more than $800 million,  federal prosecutors said on Thursday.
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A former Microsoft Corp.  employee pleaded guilty on Wednesday to selling the world's largest software maker's products for more than &#36;7 million for personal profit, federal prosecutors said.
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A German woman has confessed to stealing  250,000 euros ($356,400) from church collection boxes over the  past nine years, police said on Thursday.
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A Melbourne financial manager faces a hefty prison sentence after stealing AU$1m from his clients and handing it over to Nigerian advance fee fraudsters.
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SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale said a junior trader who racked up more than $7 billion in losses misused computer access codes and falsified documents.
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Fake accountant sentenced to five years after stealing more than Â£2m from her employers to fund spree.
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A Florida man who made millions of dollars selling illegal copies of computer programs was sentenced Friday to six years in prison in one of the nation's largest software piracy cases.