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Jury convicts ex-Microsoft worker in digital currency scheme
SEATTLE (AP) — A jury on Tuesday convicted a former Microsoft worker of wire fraud and other charges in what prosecutors described as a scheme to steal $10 million in digital currency. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle said 25-year-old Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Kvashuk helped test...
Man accused of impersonating officers in Arizona, New Mexico
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — A man sought in New Mexico where he is charged with impersonating a peace officer is now accused of the same crime in Arizona, officials said. Aaron Wells, 30, of Crown King was arrested Friday on charges accusing him of telling people he was an undercover federal agent and of being...
Ex-West Virginia state employee sentenced in wire fraud case
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former West Virginia state worker has been sentenced to more than a year in prison and ordered to pay over $61,000 restitution after pleading guilty to using a state purchasing card to make personal purchases. Yvonne Dozier, 50, of Boomer, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal...
Utility fires contractor after probe involving wildfires
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric has fired a contractor hired to haul debris from the site of a deadly 2018 Northern California wildfire, saying the company was over-billing the utility and paying “large sums of money and gifts” to two utility supervisors. PG&E Chief...
Latter-day Saints fraud lawsuit moved to settlement hearing
Allegations of fraud against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been referred to a settlement conference by a Utah court. McKenna Denson's fraud allegations against Provo Missionary Training Center President Joseph L. Bishop and the church were dismissed more than a year ago because the statute...
Butte counselor pleads guilty to Medicaid fraud
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — A mental health counselor from Butte has pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicaid by billing the federal program for services that she did not provide. Dana Trandahl had been charged with 13 counts of Medicaid fraud and two other felonies that alleged tens of thousands of dollars in fraud....
Former French prime minister and wife go on trial for fraud
PARIS (AP) — He was the front-runner to be president of France. Instead, former Prime Minister Francois Fillon is going on trial to face fraud charges after he used public funds to pay his wife and children for work they allegedly never performed. The trial formally began Monday in the presence of Fillon...
Illinois contractor faces federal fraud charges in Indiana
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — An Illinois contractor faces federal charges in Indiana for allegedly defrauding a blight removal program of nearly $100,000 in phony invoices. Mahmoud “Mike” Alshuaibi was indicted by a grand jury on six felony counts of wire fraud, theft and making false statements,...
Indiana Republicans say law adequate despite school fraud
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican leaders are resisting steps toughening state laws on privately operated online schools, pushing aside blame in the alleged enrollment inflation by two such schools that wrongly collected $69 million in taxpayer money. The state audit of Indiana Virtual School and...
Biotech company employee gets prison in securities scheme
BOSTON (AP) — An employee of a Boston-based biotech company became the second person to be sentenced in a scheme officials say was designed to manipulate the company's stock prices and defraud investors. M. Jay Herod, 52, of Cambridge was sentenced Thursday to serve six months in prison for the scheme...
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