Crime

A man in Virginia lied to obtain $2.5 million in loans that were meant to help keep people employed during the coronavirus pandemic he later used to purchase a luxury car and his own airplane, according to prosecutors.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has agreed to plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, Justice Department officials announced Wednesday.

A former waitress for a North Carolina-based restaurant chain is suing the company after enduring months of alleged sexual assault and harassment including one instance when she received an anonymous threat after reporting that her private sex tape had been circulated among coworkers.

The 39-count indictment unsealed Thursday charges Brockman, the chief executive officer of Ohio-based software company Reynolds and Reynolds Co., with tax evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, and other offenses.

President Trump on Thursday slammed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his handling of the novel coronavirus in the state and called him “incompetent” while also noting that crime in certain parts of the state has risen as high as 250 percent in recent months.

A simple phone scam was the key first step in the Twitter hack that took over dozens of high-profile accounts this summer, New York regulators say.

When New York City comes back 10 years from now, it will be “a very different city,” Peebles Corporation CEO Don Peebles told “Mornings with Maria” on Monday.

The company, which Ian Charles Schenkel founded in 1992, replaced him with Dan Glick, longtime management and financial adviser to the company, according to the firm's announcement.

Both Black and Apollo have moved quickly to distance themselves from Epstein following the allegations.

A former New York wine distributor who hawked a single-serving wine glass that appeared on “Shark Tank” was sentenced to two years in prison Friday for wire fraud.

According to court documents, the editor and publisher of the newsletter were first targeted after they published an article about litigation involving eBay in August 2019. 

Florida Rapper Diamond Blue Smith allegedly pocketed more than $1 million in COVID-19 relief funds, which he used to buy a Ferrari and other luxe items, federal prosecutors said.

The criminal complaint notes alleged wire fraud occurred between November 2019 and February 2020 in which Nguyen used his employee access to falsely and fraudulently issue $96,508.13 in refunds to himself and others.

The attack on eResearchTechnology (ERT) began two weeks ago when employees discovered they were locked out of their data

Anthem, the health insurance company behind Blue Cross-Blue Shield, has agreed to pay nearly $40 million in another settlement over a 2015 cyberattack that compromised the personal information belonging to nearly 79 million people.

Prosecutors said that in 2012, Nikulin, working from Moscow, hacked the computers of the San Francisco Bay Area companies, installed malware, stole login credentials for employees and used them to obtain customer data such as usernames and passwords that he offered for sale on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum.

Williams is the fifteenth person to plead guilty as part of an ongoing federal corruption probe, including his successor as president, Gary Jones.

Axon Enterprises – the company that equips police departments nationwide with body-worn cameras and related technology – has signed on to provide similar services to U.S. Border Patrol agents

Former Big Apple Mayor Rudy Giuliani criticized New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other elected officials in Democratic cities for high crime and their lax policies on controversial topics, such as the release of convicted criminals.

Mexico is now deploying guards equipped with assault rifles to help protect mining companies from attacks by drug cartels.