Suspect cons cops, firefighters into bogus donations, police say
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Three days after she walked out of prison, Neila Adams was already fleecing victims in the most unlikely places, police say. Adams walked into police stations and firehouses across the South Side, asking for
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Gov. Ernie Fletcher, mired in a yearlong hiring probe, can create a fund to accept donations to help pay his legal fees from criminal charges that were dismissed, an ethics panel said Friday.
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Four veteran police officers were accused in federal court of taking thousands of dollars to protect what they thought were mob shipments of drugs, stolen art and jewelry.
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CHICAGO Officials say a Chicago woman was able to con police and firefighters into donating to a diabetes walk-a-thon that she never intended to enter.
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Peter Hain to be questioned by police investigating Â£100,000 of undeclared donations
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The city has started charging residents $500 for structure fires and up to $1,000 for false alarms to raise money for the financially troubled department.
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Federal prosecutors contend a businessman known for pledging money to help track down criminals has pocked $3.2 million of income over the past several years while not paying federal taxes since 2000.
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CLEVELAND - The need for clean money gave him away. A bank-robbery ring was cracked when police spotted a man changing hundreds of dollars in dye-stained bills for quarters in a drive-thru car wash coin machine, the FBI said...
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Nine people were arrested on suspicion of selling forged Super Bowl tickets for thousands of dollars, police said yesterday.
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CHICAGO -- Chicago police said a woman who hauled in more than $3,000 in cash donations for the American Diabetes Association is believed to have spent all the money on cocaine.
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A panel investigating Salt Lake County's mayor said Wednesday that it found evidence she misused public money by hiring a bookkeeper for a nonprofit group where her daughter is the chief financial officer.
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A man arrested on suspicion of trying to buy a woman's baby said Wednesday that the money he gave the mother was intended only as help.
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Norman Hsu, who has contributed $23,000 to various fund-raising committees associated with Hillary Rodham Clinton, acknowledged today that there appeared to be a warrant for his arrest.
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A Los Angeles man was arrested on Thursday on charges of impersonating a federal agent in what
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Michael Levy, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief fundraiser, was arrested for a second time Tuesday in connection with the cash for honors scandal.  Scotland Yard said he is under suspicion of perversion of the course of justice, The Observer reported.
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Norman Hsu, the Democratic fund-raiser, is being held on an outstanding warrant for his arrest in a grand theft case, and after being charged in the New York fraud case.
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A service is accused of $200 million in false charges for dishonest online sellers and telemarketers.