Fraud

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April 11, 2013
NBC Chicago - A widening federal investigation into the alleged misuse of a $1.25 million state grant led Wednesday to…
February 20, 2013
NBC Chicago - Jesse Jackson Jr. sent a message back to Chicago as he left a federal courtroom Wednesday after…
January 18, 2013
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted Friday on 21 corruption charges including wire fraud,…
November 27, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Brian Banks, the eight-time convict who won a landslide election for state representative in Michigan’s 1st district…
October 30, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Toni Braxton has been accused of illegally transferring money to her estranged husband in an effort to…
September 29, 2012
Voter and election fraud do exist -- unfortunately for the GOP, the documented cases have been among their own.
July 24, 2012
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - FBI agents are seeking evidence of bribery, fraud, extortion and money laundering as they investigate the…
July 16, 2012
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s mother told attendees of the annual Rainbow/PUSH conference in Chicago on Friday that her son has…
July 13, 2012
A Baton Rouge pastor and her sister were arrested Thursday for allegedly setting her million-dollar home ablaze...
May 29, 2012
Mary J. Blige promised to empower women with her Charity. Instead she has back taxes a default bank loan and…
March 15, 2012
VIDEO - An alleged con who swindled a senior out of her house has local and federal agencies working to…
March 13, 2012
OPINION - The Republican Party is obsessed with fraud. Like tax cuts, it is a cause célèbre, even where fraud…
October 31, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - With confidence and zeal, Ephren Taylor riveted audiences at mostly black churches with a list of his…
September 15, 2011
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (AP) - The 46-year-old Blair pleaded guilty last month in the financial scheme that Southaven resident Esther Pilgrim…
September 2, 2011
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - Former NBA player and Michigan State star Jay Vincent is asking a judge to keep…
September 1, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - Like Magic Johnson, Vincent played in the NBA after the pair led Michigan State to the 1979…
August 4, 2011
OPINION - The indisputable fact is that the bank made tens of millions on its alleged illegal and fraudulent lending…
June 28, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - A former Citigroup vice president embezzled $19.2 million from the bank in a one-man "inside job"…
June 24, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - The Michigan parole board voted Friday to release former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from prison after more…
June 15, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Bonnie Sweeten, of Feasterville, has been incarcerated for two years since calling 911 and reporting that two…