fraud

The email caught the executive at a small company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company's owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor.

Four upstate New York police officials accused of submitting false police training documents have pleaded guilty.

A former New York state official imprisoned for financial crimes has been hit with an $85,000 judgment by a federal judge for transferring money to his college professor daughter instead of paying restitution owed to the state.

Police say a card skimmer was discovered inside an ATM at a branch of Community Bank N.A.

An eyewear website operator who already served several years in prison after making violent threats to unhappy consumers across the U.S. pleaded guilty to new charges on Tuesday, admitting that he committed more online fraud after he was freed.

An upstate New York doctor and his wife have agreed to pay $500,000 for submitting false claims to Medicare for unapproved chemotherapy drugs.

A 62-year-old upstate New York fish store owner has been sentenced to one year in prison for his role in a food stamp fraud operation that bilked the government of more than $1 million.

A man who posed along the East Coast as a millionaire oil tycoon to scam women on internet dating sites out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced on Thursday to nearly four years in prison.

A western New York man who pretended to need a wheelchair to trick the federal government out of more than a million dollars in benefits has been sentenced to 32 months in prison.

An upstate New York stockbroker has pleaded guilty to fraud in a scheme to steal nearly $400,000 from his customers.