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Mets Owners Settle With Trustee In Madoff Case
The owners of the New York Mets settled for $162 million with the court-appointed trustee in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme on Monday, according to the federal court handling the case.
Trustee Irving Picard, who is in charge of recovering assets...Tags: Corporate Crime, CNN (tv network), Bernard Madoff
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Company Forced To Pay Nearly $6 Million In City Time Scandal
pix11.com | @colekirstinIt's called City Time, and it was meant to be a better way to keep track of hours worked by city employees by using a web site. Instead it became the biggest cookie jar of all time for one consulting group that perpetrated the biggest fraud ever against...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Corporate Crime, Manhattan (New York City), Michael Bloomberg, Lawyers
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School On Chopping Block, But Controversial Principal May Not Be
The official title of a school on the city's new closure list is the Jane Addams High School for Academic Careers. However, its career as a school appears to be coming to a screeching halt, even though the same can't be said for the career of its...Tags: Corporate Crime, Teaching and Learning, Students, Trials, Facebook
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Mobsters Smuggled Immigrants Into U.S. To Work As Strippers: Cops
pix11.comTwenty people have been arrested and charged in what prosecutors say was a mob scheme that smuggled immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe to work at area strip clubs. The suspects, all described as members of both the Bonanno and Gambino crime...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Woodside, Lawyers, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice
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Woman Left With 'Uniboob' After Botched Plastic Surgery [PHOTOS]
pix11.comA Los Angeles woman is living a nightmare after being disfigured by an unlicensed plastic surgeon, and she is speaking out so other women don't fall prey. Dinora Rodriguez, of Los Angeles, woke up after a surgery to replace leaking breast implants to...Tags: American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Corporate Crime, Breast Augmentation, Plastic Surgeons, Surgery
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NYPD Cop Charged With Making False Arrest
pix11.comNYPD officer Michael Daragjati was arrested Monday and denied bail as he was charged with insurance fraud, extortion and violating the civil rights of an African-American with a false arrest. Daragjati, of Staten Island, is an 8 year veteran of the NYPD....Tags: Police Arrests, Theft, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Nearly A Dozen Charged In $1B LIRR Pension Probe
ReutersU.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged 11 people in connection with an alleged $1 billion fraud involving hundreds of railroad workers filing false disability claims. In some cases workers claimed they were unable to work even while they played golf,...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Medical Procedures and Tests, Prosecution, The New York Times, Railway Transportation
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LIRR Workers' Illegal Scheme Pays Off, Even If They're Convicted: Feds
PIX11.comAt a time when pension payments are straining government budgets nationwide, forcing layoffs of teachers, police and other municipal workers, investigators arrest nearly a dozen people in connection with what prosecutors call a pension scam that has...Tags: Lawyers, Trials, Long Island Rail Road, Employees, Transportation
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More Students Charged In Growing LI SAT Scandal
pix11.comOver a dozen new students paraded past reporters Tuesday morning, many covering their faces as they turned themselves in to be arrested and arraigned as part of the investigation into the ongoing SAT cheating scandal rocking the affluent towns of Long...Tags: School Examinations, Academic Progress, Lawyers, Teaching and Learning, Prosecution
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Is Social Security A "Ponzi Scheme" As Rick Perry Claims?
Is Social Security a “Ponzi Scheme” as Texas Governor and leading Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry claims?
To answer that, first we need to know what a Ponzi Scheme is. Named after Boston conman Charles Ponzi, it is a fraudulent...Tags: Rick Perry, Corporate Crime, Wages and Pensions, Elections, Retirement
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'Entrepreneur of the Year' Stole Millions From NYC: Prosecutor
pix11.comIn 2010, Dr. Padma Allen of Wayne, New Jersey, was honored as "Entrepreneur of the Year" by the Women's Tech Council. Allen is the founder of Technodyne, which was called a fast-growing, information technology company. Now, the Indian-born medical...Tags: New Jersey, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Lawyers, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice
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