A man has been sentenced to two years in prison for obtaining fraudulent loans designed to provide emergency financial assistance for businesses affected by COVID-19 and then using a portion of the cash to purchase a Range Rover.

A married Utah County entrepreneur is facing charges for allegedly dating to defraud a breast-cancer survivor out of nearly $200,000 and is further accused of using the same “disturbing pattern of activity'' in victimizing his second victim, a widow.

A man who thought he could cash in big money from an insurance if he lost his legs ended up with an even bigger mess and potential jail time.

Federal agents are considering Heidi Planck’s disappearance as an active criminal case, after agents and LAPD carried out a raid in Planck’s home.

A man is reportedly suing a psychic for failing to remove an alleged curse put on him by his ex-girlfriend for $5,100.

Kaylynn Stevenson revealed she had stumbled upon her own case after googling missing persons who carried the last name “Williams” and realized the Google photo was hers.

The travel agent Maria Silva refused to answer the cops during questioning but she made a full-blown confession in court.

The reputed octogenarian boss and underboss of New York City’s Colombo crime family were among the 14 people arrested amid alleged ties to corruption and health care fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office confirmed on Tuesday.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday sued the founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform BitConnect for allegedly poaching a staggering $2 billion from retail investors from the United States and abroad. It is believed to be the largest cryptocurrency fraud to be criminally charged.

The inventor of cryptocurrency AriseCoin has been slapped with a five-year federal prison term for leaving investors more than $4 million out of pocket in a fraudulent digital coin scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Texas bared on Wednesday. 

A Connecticut nurse has been sentenced in federal court in Springfield to 20 months in prison for tampering with liquid morphine prescribed to a patient, the U.S. Attorney’s Office bared on Wednesday.

Claims were made that the oil had “cured at least 10 people” of COVID-19 in phone calls to the church during an investigation.

A Georgia woman has been sentenced to 145 months in prison on Friday after leading an elder fraud scheme that preyed on over 250 South Floridian senior citizens, leaving them $1.4 million out of pocket. 

A bitcoin seller is facing up to five years in jail for operating a business without securing a license from the financial crimes watchdog, admitting to be responsible for at least $201,399.00 in losses to victims. 

Popular adult star Mia Khalifa has announced her divorce from her partner Robert Sandberg just after two years of marriage.

A Manhattan spinal surgeon has quickly resolved his divorce from a former Miss Connecticut USA contestant on Monday after he lodged legal action seeking to void the marriage as a victim of fraud, accusing his estranged spouse of moonlighting as a high-priced call girl.

A couple who were looking for ways to settle their debt tried to sell their kidneys. Instead, they ended up losing more money to fraudsters in Hyderabad.

A Kings Point, Long Island man faces a raft of charges after forging documents to steal two brownstones in Harlem worth more than $4 million, the New York Attorney General announced on Thursday.

Family members got suspicious as he had not shown any symptom of coronavirus.

More victims have since emerged after two Indian nationals pleaded guilty on conspiracy charges relating to their involvement in an international robocalls scheme that targeted thousands of vulnerable elderly Americans across multiple U.S. states, including Virginia, for several years.

A 44-year-old woman has been collared for allegedly diverting funds of a business into her personal account for a span of two-years. The owner was using the business as a source of income to cover his son's medical bills.

A "witch cult" leader has been sentenced to death after hacking his Tinder date dead and chopping the victim's limbs into 14 pieces before dumping them in 2017, the Saline County Courthouse bared on Wednesday, making the criminal the 12th death row inmate in Nebraska.

A hospital assistant was arrested after using the cards of a dead woman to buy herself snacks in Birmingham. She admitted to the crime but escaped jail time.

A retired nun with an apparent gambling habit from Los Angeles has pleaded guilty to stealing and embezzling some $835,000 from a Catholic elementary school she had worked for for 28 years.

Jessy Kurczewski, 37, allegedly poisoned her friend with a lethal dose of eyedrops after stealing thousands of dollars from the victim. She also tried to make the death seem like a suicidal overdose, authorities said.

Megan Scotcher claimed to use the money to create “holiday memories” for her children and promised to split the money between them after her passing.

A former Make-A-Wish CEO in Iowa has pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of embezzling more than $40,000 from the charity meant for dying children and their families

A former obstetrician-gynecologist in Virginia has been jailed for 60 years for performing medically unnecessary surgeries and procedures on his patients between 2010 and 2019 in an elaborate health care fraud scheme.

By submitting fraud unemployment claims, the group reportedly stole $2m from the COVID-19 relief funds, Brooklyn federal court heard.

A 39-year-old serial rapist in Thailand has been arrested and charged after at least 36 female victims have come forward to offer their testimony.