An Ohio man is due in federal court Tuesday on charges of defrauding contractors involved in FBI building projects in Indianapolis and Knoxville, Tenn. Judge Sara Lioi in Akron has scheduled the hearing for 51-year-old Robert Berryhill of Aurora. Her …
The mayor of a West Texas town of about 100 people has been charged with stealing nearly $300,000 in a forged signature scheme. Toyah Mayor Bartolo Sanchez faces federal charges of bank fraud, wire fraud and four counts of aggravated …
The leader of an identity theft ring that stole over $1 million and ripped off the identities of over 180 New Yorkers has pleaded guilty. Phillip Smith faces up to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty Friday to identity …
A former Iowa workforce adviser helping lead a class-action discrimination lawsuit filed by black workers is expected to face federal charges of embezzlement and identity theft. Linda Pippen is due in court Wednesday for a hearing where she is expected …
At least 80 employees and customers at more than two dozen Lucky Supermarkets’ stores in California’s San Francisco Bay area have had their bank accounts compromised after thieves tampered with the credit and debit card readers in self-checkout lines. The …
Hospital officials say thousands of patients at Fairview and North Memorial hospitals may have been exposed to potential identity theft because of a stolen laptop computer. Officials say the laptop contained private data on more than 16,000 patients and was …
A St. Louis man has been ordered to serve four years and nine months in federal prison for an identity-theft operation authorities say was helped by a worker at a southwestern Illinois restaurant. Thirty-one-year-old Miltiano Johnson also was ordered to …
Major U.S. banks came under growing pressure from banking regulators to improve the security of customer accounts after Citigroup Inc. became the latest high-profile victim of a cyber attack. While Citigroup insisted the breach had been limited, experts called it …
A woman described as a minor player in what prosecutors said was a massive identity theft and fraud ring largely involving Korean immigrants on Friday became the first of 53 defendants in the case to be sentenced. Song-Ja Park was …
A Eugene, Ore., man accused of filing at least 30 fraudulent car damage claims that cost insurance companies nearly $200,000 has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton said 45-year-old Timothy Devon Huntley Jr. …