(AP) A federal court of appeals has upheld the sentence of a former civilian Navy employee for orchestrating a long-running $18 million kickback scheme. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Providence, Rhode Island, upheld the sentence imposed by ...

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NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors say one of Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff’s former controllers will plead guilty in New York to conspiracy charges in history’s largest Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors said in a letter to a judge late Tuesday that ...

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IOWA CITY, Iowa — A fugitive doctor charged in the nation’s largest prosecution of Internet pharmacies is getting off in part because there’s just too much evidence in his case: more than 400,000 documents and two terabytes of electronic data ...

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NEW YORK — The younger brother of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff — the loyal No. 2 at an investment firm that fronted a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme — pleaded guilty Friday, agreeing to serve 10 years in prison and saying he ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — A former mortgage company chief executive convicted of orchestrating a nearly $3 billion fraud scheme is asking a federal appeals panel to reverse his conviction and send the case back for a retrial. Former Taylor, Bean & ...

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FREDERICK — A former Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration worker was sentenced to six months in jail for conspiring to steal more than $87,000 from the agency’s Frederick office. Fifty-three-year-old Joann Fleishell was convicted at a bench trial March 26. She ...

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A judge has sentenced a broker to more than three years in prison for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in nearly $5 million in fraudulent loans. The Maryland U.S. attorney’s office says 60-year-old Mary Anne Dean, ...

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The founder of a mortgage scheme that fleeced more than 1,000 people of $78 million was sentenced Friday to 150 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Andrew Hamilton Williams ...

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WASHINGTON — A pay phone operator is accused of exploiting how companies pay for their toll-free numbers by using robotic crank calls to ring in $4 million dollars in fraudulent fees, 50 cents at a time. Prosecutors say businessman Nicolaos ...

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A Baltimore police officer has pleaded guilty to taking money to divert drivers at accident scenes to an unauthorized towing company and repair shop. Forty-one-year-old David Reeping of Arbutus pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to extortion under color ...

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