MIAMI (AP) — A yacht company accountant became the first U.S. citizen Thursday to be charged in the government’s investigation into wealthy citizens who hid assets from tax collectors in the Swiss bank UBS AG. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Steven Michael Rubinstein, 55, of Boca Raton appeared in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale [...]

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The former CFO of General Reinsurance Corp., Elizabeth Monrad, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $250,000 for helping defrauding American International Group Inc investors in 2000. Monrad, 54, and four other insurance executives were convicted in February 2008 for their roles in a fraud that cost AIG shareholders as much as $597 [...]

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28-year-old police officer Victoria Thorne admitted in court to working as a prostitute in order to make ends meet. The petite officer said she “entertained” about 20 men per week and charged about $150 an hour while moonlighting at the Notorious Girls escort agency. The police officer/ prostitute appeared on the escort’s web site under [...]

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UPDATE: 8:39 PM Law enforcement sources identified the con man as Willie Brown Singer and actor Jamie Foxx says that an unknown person tried to force his way into his hotel room at AKA Hotel in Philadelphia on March 22, while he was in the room. The 49-year-old was under the impression that he was [...]

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Maya Soetoro-Ng President Barack Obama sister, has just inked a book deal with Candlewick Press. “Ladder to the Moon, Maya Soetoro-Ng’s first book, is inspired by Maya and Barack’s mother as well as by Maya’s four-year-old daughter. What lessons, the author wonders, might her daughter have learned from her grandmother had the two ever met? [...]

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