Martin Thomas Manton
Martin Thomas Manton was a United States federal judge in New York City, who resigned and served time in prison for accepting bribes while in office. In 1916 he was the youngest federal judge in the United States. Manton was...
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Inmate scams victim out of $46,000 from her jail cell
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Inmate scams victim out of $46,000 from her jail cell
SAN ANTONIO -- An investigation by KENS-TV has revealed an inmate at the Bexar County Jail convinced an employee to notarize multiple forged documents earlier this year.
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Saradha Scam: CBI Custody of Accused Debabrata Sarkar Extended by Three Days
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File Photo: Saradha Group of Companies
Kolkata: A city court today sent top East Bengal Club official Debabrata Sarkar, an accused in the Saradha chit fund scam, to further three days' CBI custody while it remanded main accused Sudipta Sen...
Gang jailed for stealing bank card details worth £16m
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Vasile Pop, 30, one of the four people jailed over the fraud. Photograph: UK Cards Association/PA
Almost 1,000 bank accounts compromised by Harrow-based fraudsters in 'highly sophisticated' scheme
Thursday 21 August 2014 06.38 EDT
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Scam victim who lost £80,000 set to take legal action against Santander
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Bad move: scammers rely on calling the telephone number on back of a bank card. Photograph: Alamy
The bank is accused of failing in its duty of care as thousands are duped into moving their cash.
Saturday 16 August 2014 01.59 EDT
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TIN scam (2012)
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The recent revelations about Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) scam have brought to fore that a few officials of the commercial tax department were involved in the wrongdoing.
The recent revelations about Taxpayer Identification Number...
Haryana Forest Development Corporation Cash Scam
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Chandigarh (I-Haryana News): Haryana Forest Development Corporation, a company formed by Government of Haryana in December 1989, which was initially formed with one of the objects to increase the financial status of farming and labour community by...
North Dakota Governor William Langer (R) was removed from office in 1934 for alleged racketeering and barricaded himself in the Governor's mansion rather than leave
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William Langer
William "Wild Bill" Langer was a prominent US politician from North Dakota. Langer is one of the most colorful characters in North Dakota history, most famously bouncing back from a scandal that forced him out of the governor's...