Latest Counterfeiting and forgery News

The Latest: UnitedHealthcare shooting suspect to appear in Pennsylvania court

Dec. 10, 2024 14:14 PM EST

Manhattan police have obtained a warrant for the arrest of 26-year-old Luigi Nicholas Mangione, suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEOBrian Thompson. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, while carrying a gun, mask and writings linking him to the ambush. ...

Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors

Dec. 10, 2024 13:08 PM EST

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year. ...

New York prosecutors charge suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing with murder, court records show

Dec. 10, 2024 00:09 AM EST

ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — A man suspected in the brazen Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO was arrested and charged with murder Monday after a quick-thinking McDonald’s customer in Pennsylvania recognized him from a surveillance photo and police officers found a gun, mask and writings...

Suspect in killing of United Healthcare CEO is charged with weapons, forgery and other charges in Pennsylvania

Dec. 09, 2024 18:41 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — Suspect in killing of United Healthcare CEO is charged with weapons, forgery and other charges in Pennsylvania.

Greek police arrest 3 accused of faking and selling at auction scores of artworks

Dec. 06, 2024 11:46 AM EST

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three people have been arrested in northern Greece on suspicion of systematically counterfeiting works by leading Greek artists and selling them as originals through an online auction house, police said Friday. A police statement said the arrests were carried...

A judge has once again rejected Musk's multi-billion-dollar Tesla pay package. Now what?

Dec. 03, 2024 16:27 PM EST

DETROIT (AP) — For a second time, a Delaware judge has nullified a pay package that Tesla had awarded its CEO, Elon Musk, that once was valued at $56 billion. On Monday, Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick turned aside a request from Musk's lawyers to reverse a ruling she...

Arizona grand jury indicts pair for alleged school voucher fraud

Dec. 02, 2024 21:04 PM EST

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona grand jury has indicted two out-of-state residents for allegedly applying to the state’s private school voucher program as parents to 50 children – 43 of whom did not exist – and receiving more than $110,000. The duo collected the money by submitting...

Delaware judge reaffirms ruling that invalidated massive Tesla pay package for Elon Musk

Dec. 02, 2024 20:28 PM EST

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has reaffirmed her ruling that Tesla must revoke Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick on Monday denied a request by attorneys for Musk and Tesla’s corporate directors to vacate her ruling earlier...

Judge delays Trump hush money sentencing in order to decide where case should go now

Nov. 22, 2024 11:29 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge confirmed Friday that President-elect Donald Trump won't be sentenced this month in his hush money case, instead setting a schedule for prosecutors and his lawyers to expand on their ideas about what to do next. Amid a flurry of filings in the case since...

US regulators seek to break up Google, forcing Chrome sale as part of monopoly punishment

Nov. 21, 2024 10:07 AM EST

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade. The proposed breakup floated in a 23-page document...