Fraud

“The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah has been ordered to participate in a mental health treatment program, as part of her probation, following her prison release. Shah, 49, was sentenced to 78 months in prison after she pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Federal prosecutors said Shah was a leader of a “nationwide...

A yearslong saga that ensnared the publishing world culminated in a New York courtroom Friday when a con artist pleaded guilty to a plot that defrauded scores of authors by duping them into handing over hundreds of unpublished manuscripts.

“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star, Jen Shah was sentenced to six and a half years in prison. Myles Miller reports.

“Real Housewives” star Jen Shah was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in NYC federal court in connection with a sweeping national fraud scheme; prosecutors had wanted 10-plus years.

Federal prosecutors are seeking a 10-year prison sentence for “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah, who they say lived lavishly after defrauding thousands of people nationwide in a telemarketing scam, many of them elderly. But her lawyer says she should face no more than three years behind bars.

“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jennifer Shah was also ordered to forfeit $6,500,000, 30 luxury items, and 78 counterfeit luxury items, and to pay $6,645,251 in restitution, according to prosecutors.

U.S. government regulators charged eight social media influencers Wednesday in a $100 million fraud scheme in which they’re accused of promoting exchange-traded stocks, then selling their shares when prices rose.

A Florida pastor and his son were arrested Wednesday on charges of fraudulently obtaining more than $8 million in federal COVID relief funds and attempting to use some of the money to buy a luxury home near Disney World.

The former CEO of crypto group FTX has been accused of one of the biggest frauds in U.S. history, with Manhattan prosecutors saying it was all a front from the beginning, ultimately defrauding people out of $8 billion. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Hackers linked to the Chinese Government stole millions in COVID-19 benefits, marking the first time pandemic related fraud is linked to foreign, state-sponsored cybercriminals.

Seventeen city and state employees now facing charges along with two other defendants over a plot to steal pandemic relief funds. Gus Rosendale reports.

Seventeen New York City and state employees, as well as members of the NYPD, are facing charges for allegedly obtaining pandemic relief loans through a fraud scheme, federal officials said. According to the complaint, as cited by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams, during the summer of 2020 some of those charged conspired…

U.S. Army officials say investigators have launched a broad review of at least 1,900 National Guard and Reserve soldiers who were swept up in a recruiting bonus scandal up to a decade ago and may have been wrongly blamed and punished. Army officials announced Thursday that its Criminal Investigation Division will review all cases and correct the records. Division Director...

Kevin Bacon recently revealed his reaction to finding out he and wife Kyra Sedgwick lost money in one of history’s largest Ponzi schemes.

A woman accused of aiding New York City-area gang members secure access to high-end apartments by using stolen identities was arrested this week, federal prosecutors announced. Investigators allege Latoya Williams forged housing paperwork, including pay stubs and tax documents, and left her victims with various rent and utility bills. Lawsuits and debt collections now face many of the woman’s...

James’ office filed the lawsuit last week and is angling to get the case to trial by the end of next year — before the first primaries in the 2024 presidential election.

New York’s attorney general isn’t arresting former President Donald Trump even though she says her three-year investigation uncovered potential crimes in the way he ran his real estate empire. Instead, Democrat Letitia James announced a civil lawsuit seeking $250 million and a permanent ban on the Republican former president from doing business in the state. So why isn’t Trump being...

NBC New York’s Melissa Russo and Chris Glorioso report.

Here’s a look at some of the ways Trump is accused in the lawsuit of lying about his net worth, with Attorney General Letitia James saying that some of the inflated estimates were “absurd”

So were any everyday New Yorkers directly hurt by what Attorney General Letitia James has accused Donald Trump and his family of doing? The answer is not entirely clear.