The mayor of a small Hudson River city has been arrested on federal charges accusing him of using thousands of dollars in campaign funds for vacations, home repairs and other personal uses.
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.
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.
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.
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.