419 scammers plead guilty in US
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20 years prison time? Three West African defendants pleaded guilty to federal charges of running an advance-fee scheme that targeted U.S. victims with promises of millions of dollars, including money from an estate and a lottery.â¦
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Two former underwriters at Zurich American Insurance Co. pleaded guilty yesterday to participating in rigging fake bids in an ongoing investigation into insurance industry practices led by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
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Riggs Bank today pleaded guilty to a federal criminal charge and agreed to pay a $16 million fine for failing to prevent potential money laundering at the District bank.
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A former senior executive at Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. Inc. and two American International Group Inc. employees pleaded guilty yesterday to criminal charges in New York's probe of bid rigging and price fixing in the insurance industry.
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A former Microsoft Corp. worker pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to participating in a software sales scheme with three others that defrauded the company of more than &#36;32 million.
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A Department of Homeland Security supervisor pleaded guilty yesterday to pocketing more than $600,000 in bribes in exchange for falsifying immigration documents to help Asian immigrants obtain U.S. citizenship.
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Two employees at insurance company Zurich American pleaded guilty on Tuesday to misdemeanors related to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer&#39;s investigation of bid-rigging in the insurance market, according to a New York
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Federal prosecutors and a former America Online software engineer have negotiated a tentative plea agreement over charges he stole more than 92 million e-mail addresses and sold them to Internet spammers, according to two people familiar with the case.
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EBAY VENDORS were ordered to pay nearly $90,000 in restitution and fines after admitting they bid up products online to inflate the prices.
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Operation Cyberstorm nabs conspirators Four people convicted last year of scamming Microsoft by reselling discounted education versions of its software have been ordered to pay $5m in fines, return $20m to Microsoft and serve up to five years in prison.â¦
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LOS ANGELES -- Four Southern California residents pleaded innocent to conspiring to distribute more than $30 million in counterfeit computer software and products, authorities said.
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Three people at the center of a scam that preyed on investors by enticing them with voice-mail messages packaged as secret stock tips pleaded guilty to criminal charges yesterday in a District courtroom.
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THE DEPARTMENT of Justice said that four employees of Infineon have pleaded guilty to charges of price fixing DRAM. Three German citizens and one US citizen will each pay $250,000 in fines as well as serving between four to six months in jail.
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An Iraqi-American businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he received payments from Iraq to illegally act as its agent in the United States, including getting millions of dollars worth of oil from the United Nations' oil-for-food program.
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A Canadian man who helped create a company to process Internet gambling transactions pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge Tuesday, about two weeks after another founder of Neteller PLC entered a guilty plea of his own.
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A 24-year-old former American Online software engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers, setting off an avalanche of up to seven billion unsolicited e-mails.
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A computer technician who prosecutors said made possible the largest identity theft in U.S. history, surpassing $50 million, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy in a scheme that poached personal information from tens of thousands of people.