A wealthy chiropractor living with his wife and two children in a $1.2 million waterfront home in Seattle was busted for collecting over $100,000 a year in welfare benefits. Authorities said that since 2003, David Silverstein and Lyudmila Shimonova defrauded the government of hundreds of thousands of dollars by collecting public housing vouchers, disability checks [...]

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A former Canadian politician is accused of committing fraud by accepting rewards or benefits without the government’s consent. Former Quebec’s family minister, Tony Tomassi, was arrested on Monday and charged with fraud and breach of breach. Tomassi, who was first elected to represent LaFontaine for the Liberal Party in 2003, is accused of paying gas [...]

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Six Long Island, New York, teenagers are accused of hiring a 19-year-old college student to take their SATs, where they got almost perfect scores. Five out of the six Great Neck North High School students are said to have paid Sam Eshaghoff up to $2,500 to take the exams that colleges based students’ acceptance on. [...]

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After almost 12 hours of deliberation, a jury found Florida real estate developer Bob Ward guilty of murdering his wife in their multimillion dollar mansion two years ago. Ward, whose trial lasted two weeks, looked stoic when the verdict was being read. He faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced in November. Prosecutors [...]

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Authorities in New Jersey have accused a former NBA player of operating a real estate Ponzi scheme totally more than $2 million. Prosecutors say from 2005 until this year, Tate George, a former guard for the New Jersey Nets and Milwaukee Bucks, raised money from investors, mostly professional athletes, to finance real estate projects he [...]

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