Calif. Woman on Trial for Adoption Scam
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A woman went on trial for allegedly pretending to be pregnant with a baby whose soldier father was killed in Iraq, scamming three couples who wanted to adopt the child and who paid her thousands of dollars.
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BARTOW, Fla. - A 31-year-old woman is accused of faking her own abduction to win back an ex-boyfriend. Gretchen Morales was arrested Monday and charged with filing a false police report, child neglect and contributing to the delinquency of a child, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
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London - An infertile mother who gave birth to a so-called &quot;miracle baby&quot; was the victim of a &quot;cruel deception&quot; by child traffickers motivated purely by financial greed, a judge in London ruled on Friday.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  May 31--SANTA ANA, Calif. -- The trial for a former Vernon County woman accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter while in California in 1969 is set to begin today.
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A US woman pleads guilty to fraud charges after using her children to feign learning difficulties to obtain benefits.
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A service is accused of $200 million in false charges for dishonest online sellers and telemarketers.
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A woman accused of shooting her preacher husband to death after they argued over money may have been taken in by a remarkably common scam that strained their finances and their marriage.
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A woman who was sectioned for 70 years after being wrongly accused of theft is reunited with her family.
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A young woman from Manchester has been charged with having funneled money to a terror suspect who was arrested last month.
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Former Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman Patricia Dunn, charged Wednesday in connection with an internal leak probe at the computer maker, appeared in court yesterday in San Jose, Calif. , to face fraud and conspiracy charges.
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Three people on trial for illegally sending junk e-mail inundated America Online customers with millions of messages touting penny stocks and "Internet history erasers," a prosecutor said Tuesday during opening statements.
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A California woman is suing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar claiming the former National Basketball Association great improperly fired her pregnant daughter, court papers showed.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. - A woman accused of using the Internet to make it appear that she was being harassed has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of identity theft.
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A woman accused of snatching a newborn from a hospital in the middle of the night and hiding her 100 miles away in New Mexico was being taken to Texas on Monday to face a kidnapping charge.
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A woman accused of running a prostitution ring catering to Washington's elite offered the phone records of her escort service to the media and others on Thursday in hopes of uncovering witnesses to aid her defense.
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By DON THOMPSON  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The state attorney general charged a private investigator Wednesday with filing false court documents on behalf of four death row inmates, calling the case one of the largest frauds in California's criminal justice system.
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NEW YORK -- A San Diego financial analyst is on trial for bribing an FBI agent and making millions of dollars. Prosecutors claim Anthony Elgindy bribed FBI agents for information on publically traded companies.