Former AOL, PurchasePro Execs Indicted
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A federal grand jury on Monday  indicted six former executives of Time Warner Inc.'s TWX.N  America Online unit and former business partner PurchasePro.com  on charges of conspiracy to inflate revenues.
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Expatriate New Zealander Stephen Richards, formerly global head of sales at Computer Associates in the US, has been indicted on charges of securities fraud conspiracy and obstruction of justice, along with former CA chief executive Sanjay Kumar.
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Federal prosecutors are strongly considering criminal charges against former executives of Broadcom Corp., Apple Inc., and KLA-Tencor Corp., related to the backdating of stock options, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the situation.
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A grand jury has indicted 17 people and a corporation on charges of identity theft, worldwide trafficking in stolen credit card numbers and other crimes committed using the Internet, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday it brought fraud and insider trading charges against former top executives of bankrupt credit card issuer NextCard Inc.
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The chief executive of business  software services company Smart Online Inc , his  brother and four brokers were arrested on Tuesday and charged  with participating in a scheme to pump up the company&#39;s stock,  prosecutors said.
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Three men with close ties to US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay were indicted on Tuesday along with eight companies for illegal fund-raising activities in a political
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Employees of some of Wall Street's top  banks were among more than a dozen people charged on Thursday  in what authorities called one of the most pervasive insider  trading rings since the 1980s, accused of using leaked  information and even blackmail to make millions of dollars.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday it brought fraud and insider trading charges against former top executives of bankrupt credit card issuer NextCard Inc.
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US regulators file civil charges accusing four former executives at telecom-equipment firm Nortel of accounting fraud.
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As expected US authorities have charged former executives of Computer Associates with fraud. Amongst those charged were the former CEO Sanjay Kumar.
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A former game and fisheries director and two former game wardens are accused in indictments of misusing state funds &#151; allegations also raised in an audit that questioned the purchase of hunting gear for an African safari and use of state-owned watercraft.
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(InfoWorld) - Six men have been charged with orchestrating a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday. The men are accused of harvesting thousands of AOL e-mail addresses and then infecting victims' PCs with malicious software that would prevent them from logging on to AOL without entering their credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and other personal information. Under the scam, victims would receive fake e-mail greeting cards that would silently infect their computers with the log-on software, according to a grand jury indictment. Victims were also spammed with phoney e-mail messages that claimed to have come from AOL's billing department. "Due to a central server meltdown, your credit card information was lost," one such e-mail read, according to the indictment. "In order to enjoy your AOL experience and keep your account active, you must enter your credit card information within 24 hours." Some of the fake greeting cards claimed to come from Web sites such as Hallmark.com or BlueMountain.com, the indictment states. AOL users appear to have been the primary targets of the fraud, but others may also have been targeted, according to Tom Carson, a spokesman for the United States Attorney's office for the District of Connecticut. "The investigation is ongoing," he said. "I think we can say the bulk of those targeted were AOL users, but we can't say with 100 percent certainty that they were the only victims," he said. The accused are believed to have defrauded thousands of individuals, U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor said in a statement. "These are insidious crimes that wreak havoc on the lives of victims, and we will seek strict terms of imprisonment." The alleged scam was conducted over a two-year period, beginning in 2004, the U.S. Attorney said. Proceeds from the crime were used to purchase gaming consoles, laptop computers and gift cards, the indictment states. The men were actually indicted on fraud charges last week by a federal grand jury in New Haven, but the charges were not made public until Wednesday, when three of the men pleaded guilty. The three who have pleaded guilty face between two years and nine and a half years in prison, Carson said. They are Charlie Blount Jr., 22, of Branford, Connecticut, Richard D'Andrea, 22, of West Haven, Connecticut, and Thomas Taylor Jr., 20, also of West Haven. They are scheduled to be sentenced in mid-December. The three men awaiting arraignment are Michael Dolan, 22, of North Miami Beach, Florida, Keith Riedel, 20, of Winter Haven, Florida, and Daniel Mascia, 22, of West Haven. Dolan had previously been sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to accessing a protected computer without authorization.
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U.S. and Canadian stock regulators filed fraud charges on Monday against several former executives of Nortel Networks, accusing them of twisting accounting practices to make it seem that the company was meeting Wall Street expectations.
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James Zimmerman, former chairman and  chief executive of Federated Department Stores, FD.N, was  indicted for perjury on Tuesday by New York Attorney General  Eliot Spitzer.
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Two ex-Computer Associates executives, including former chief executive Sanjay Kumar, have been charged with securities fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice relating to their alleged involvement in a multi-billion dollar accountancy scandal.
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Eleven people, including one of the top spammers in the world, were indicted on Thursday for allegedly sending millions of unsolicited e-mails intended to inflate the price of Chinese penny stocks.The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) called the scheme one of the largest spamming and fraud operations in the U.S. The 41-count indictment charges the defendants with conspiracy, several types of fraud, and money laundering.The indictment alleges the group sent spam via botnets, or networks of hacked computers. A three-year investigation revealed the e-mails, which implored investors to buy cheap stocks, contained fake headers and other misleading information, the DOJ said.After the price of a stock increased, the defendants sold at the artificially inflated price, a practice known as a&#160;pump-and-dump&#160;scam, according to the indictment. In mid-2005, the stock spam netted the defendants around $3 million, the DOJ said.Those charged include Alan M. Ralsky, 52, of West Bloomfield, Michigan. Spamhaus, a London-based organization that tracks spamming operations, listed&#160;Ralsky as one of the top professional spammers&#160;in the world. Also indicted was Ralsky&#39;s son-in-law, Scott K. Bradley, 46.Ralsky settled with Verizon after being sued in 2002 over spam. Ralsky and his company, Additional Benefits, agreed to pay Verizon and to stop sending spam on Verizon&#39;s network.Three of the 11 accused have been detained, and the rest -- including Ralsky -- are being sought, the DOJ said.