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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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A third insurance company executive pleaded guilty yesterday to criminal charges in connection with New York state Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer&#39;s investigation of payoffs and bid-rigging in the insurance industry.
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Three people pleaded guilty on Tuesday and promised to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution in a massive Florida insurance scam that cost investors nearly $1 billion, prosecutors said.
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Two executives of Kaplan &amp; Co. Securities of Florida have pleaded guilty to state securities fraud charges that stemmed from an investigation of illegal, after-hours trading of mutual funds, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Tuesday.
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The second US corporation this year copped a plea today to bid rigging in the nation&#39;s troubled E-Rate program. Inter-Tel Technologies agreed to pay a total $8.71 million in criminal fines, civil settlement
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Two agents claim they made illegal payments to secure transfer deals with a football manager.
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Two Pentagon contractors and a Baltimore businessman have been indicted in a scheme to rig bids for supplying aircraft fuel to the military.
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A former Army Corps of Engineers contractor accused of giving confidential information to a company seeking work on a levee reconstruction project has agreed to plead guilty to bribery, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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A former executive of Alcatel has pleaded guilty to taking part in a scheme to give more than $2.5 million in bribes to Costa Rican government officials for a mobile phone contract, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.
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A former senior executive at Marsh &  McLennan Cos. Inc. MMC.N and two executives from American  International Group Inc. AIG.N pleaded guilty to fraud  charges stemming from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's  sweeping investigation of fraud in the insurance industry.
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Two senior insurance underwriters at  Zurich American Insurance Co. pleaded guilty  on Tuesday to  misdemeanors related to bid-rigging in the insurance market.
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Three people have pleaded guilty to charges related to spam e-mail that promised U.S. victims millions of dollars from an estate and a lottery, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.In one scenario, the defendants sent e-mails purporting to be from an individual suffering from terminal throat cancer who needed assistance distributing approximately $55 million to charity, the DOJ said.The three defendants, two from Nigeria and one from Senegal, sent spam e-mail to thousands of potential victims, in which they falsely claimed to control millions of dollars located abroad, the DOJ said in a press release. The fraud victims lost $1.2 million by giving the defendants advance fees, the DOJ said.Pleading guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York were Nnamdi Chizuba Anisiobi, whose aliases include Yellowman, Abdul Rahman, Michael Anderson, Edmund Walter, Nancy White, Jiggaman, and Namo, age 31, of Nigeria; Anthony Friday Ehis, also known as John J. Smith, Toni N. Amokwu, and Mr. T, age 34, of Senegal; and Kesandu Egwuonwu, also known as KeKe, Joey Martin Maxwell, David Mark, and Helmut Schkinger, age 35, of Nigeria.Anisiobi pled guilty to one count of conspiracy, eight counts of wire fraud, and one count of mail fraud. Ehis pled guilty to one count of conspiracy and five counts of wire fraud. Egwuonwu pled guilty to one count of conspiracy, three counts of wire fraud, and one count of mail fraud.The maximum penalty for mail and wire fraud is 20 years in prison. The conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.A fourth defendant, Lenn Nwokeafor, fled to Nigeria and was subsequently arrested by the Nigerian Economic &amp; Financial Crimes Commission on July 27, 2006. He is being held by the Nigerian authorities pending extradition to the United States, the DOJ said.In the throat cancer scheme, the defendants offered to give a 20 percent commission to the victim, or a charity of his or her choice, in exchange for the victim&#39;s help. The defendants would send a variety of fraudulent documents, including a &quot;letter of authority&quot; or a &quot;certificate of deposit,&quot; making it appear that the promised funds were available, as well as pictures of an individual claiming to suffer from throat cancer, the DOJ said.Defendant Anisiobi allegedly telephoned victims, disguising his voice to give the impression that he was suffering from throat cancer.After obtaining their victims&#8217; trust, the defendants asked them to wire-transfer payment for a variety of advance fees for legal representation, taxes, and additional documentation. The victims then received nothing back, the DOJ said.In some cases, if the victims said they could not afford to pay the advance fees, the defendants would send them counterfeit checks, supposedly from a cancer patient, to cover those fees. Many victims deposited the checks and then drew on them to wire-transfer the advance fees. When the checks did not clear, the victims suffered substantial losses, the DOJ said.&quot;Online scam artists should be on notice that we will continue to work closely with our international partners to ensure that there are no safe geographic boundaries for committing these crimes,&quot; Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher of the DOJ&#39;s Criminal Division said in a statement.The investigation was initiated by Dutch law enforcement authorities, who notified the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which opened its own investigation. The three who pled guilty were arrested in Amsterdam on Feb, 21, 2006.
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A second man accused of running a gambling ring with former NHL player Rick Tocchet will plead guilty and agree to cooperate with authorities, according to a report published yesterday.
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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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Bayer AG&#39;s US unit agreed to plead guilty and pay a $33 million fine for participating in a conspiracy to fix the price of chemicals used to make plastic grocery bags, shoe soles and
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Two defendants in the O.J. Simpson robbery case pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Las Vegas to reduced charges as part of a deal to testify against the former football star and others in the theft of sports memorabilia.
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Four former El Paso Corp. employees have agreed to plead guilty to reporting false natural gas trades and will help prosecutors in ongoing investigations.