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Owner of Lynchburg-based peanut company among four people indicted for salmonella outbreak
A federal grand jury has indicted four people in a 2009 salmonella outbreak linked to a Georgia peanut processing plant. The indictment unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Georgia charges four employees with Lynchburg-based Peanut Corp. of America....
Tags: Justice System, Criminals, Family, U.S. Department of Justice, FBI
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Earned Income Tax Credit A Subsidy Rife With Fraud
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's Earned Income Tax Credit, established at the behest of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy two years ago, is the height of fiscal irresponsibility and ignorance and doubled down on taxpayer-financed fraud already documented at the federal level. In...Tags: Science and Technology, Internal Revenue Service, Pies and Tarts, Personal Income, Credit and Debt
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Is Herbalife planning a campaign against critic Bill Ackman?
This just got personal. Herbalife Ltd. has obtained the rights to domain names such as therealbillackman.com and billackman.net, a sign that the Los Angeles nutritional products company may be planning a public campaign against one of its biggest...
Tags: Herbalife Limited, Mutual Funds, Corporate Crime
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Business accused of operating 'massive pyramid scheme'
Attorney General Jack Conway and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced today they have taken legal action against Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, an alleged global pyramid scheme operating since 2001 from its corporate headquarters in Lexington. The...
Tags: Laws, Satellite Technology, Justice System, Judges, Corporate Crime
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FirstEnergy warns of bogus bill collectors
FirstEnergy Corp. utilities are warning customers about a scam involving a telephone caller posing as an electric utility company employee threatening to shut off power unless an immediate payment is made using a prepaid debit card such as a Green Dot...Tags: FirstEnergy Corp., Corporate Crime
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Part four: Bankruptcy Inc.
Somewhere in the third year of Tribune Co.'s marathon Chapter 11 proceeding, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey looked out at a Delaware courtroom packed with high-priced attorneys and conceded the case had broken down into what he called a...
Tags: Justice System, Aurelius Capital Management, LP, University of Chicago Law School, Financially Distressed Companies, Angelo, Gordon & Co.
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Q&A: Meg Whitman on fixing HP and Autonomy's accounting troubles
Last month, the Los Angeles Times sat down with Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, to discuss her first 15 months on the job. The story from that interview ran earlier this month. The interview came just a few weeks after HP announced that it had...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Corporate Officers, PayPal, Inc., Los Angeles Times, Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Howard auditor 'hot line' takes reports of fraud, abuse
Michael Mershon can get pretty stirred up about lighting. He's been working in the business for more than 30 years, most of that time in Maryland, and said he's seen local governments waste millions of dollars on lighting jobs through contract practices...Tags: Local Government, Howard County, Labor Legislation, Ellicott City, Career and Workplace
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Former Oriole Doug DeCinces indicted on insider trading charges
Former Orioles third baseman Doug DeCinces was indicted Wednesday, along with three friends, by a federal grand jury in California on securities fraud charges, for allegedly cashing in on inside information about the acquisition of an Orange County...
Tags: Prosecution, Companies and Corporations, Justice System, Criminals, Corporate Crime
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Four convicted in $154-million medical insurance fraud
L.A. NOWThe four defendants were found guilty by an Orange County jury of charges related to revenue and tax fraud for the massive scheme, according to a statement from the Orange County district attorney's office.... -
X-ray scam hits El Centro Regional Medical Center
Staff WriterA company contracted to digitize, archive and destroy El Centro Regional Medical Center’s X-rays defrauded the hospital, ECRMC revealed Wednesday, though it is unclear how many X-rays are missing or what the effect will be. “They failed to...Tags: Radiology, Theft, Gold and Precious Material, Corporate Crime, Metal and Mineral
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Convicted financier says he can't afford a lawyer
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana financier and former chief executive of National Lampoon who was convicted of swindling investors out of about $200 million says he can't afford to hire an attorney to handle his appeal. In federal court documents...
Tags: National Lampoon Incorporated, Prosecution, Companies and Corporations, Justice System, Judges
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