Metro Report: VA Medical Center police officer faces theft, fraud charges

In an effort to counter consumer fraud and give residents a way to report crooked businesses, the Department of Revenue, Department of Labor and Industries and several other agencies have established a Web site, www.suspectfraud.com, that allows consumers to check if a business is registered before they sign on the dotted line. The site also allows consumers to report …

Montgomery County awarded more than $600,000 in no-bid payments to nine companies that had ties to county police officers and were part of a controversial tuition-assistance program, Montgomery’s inspector general said in a report released Monday.

The main thoroughfare of Manwel Dimech bridge was reopened to traffic in April 2008, €2.3 million over budget. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli The police investigation into suspected fraud in the certification of the Manwel Dimech Bridge has still not been concluded, 18 months after the probe was ordered, The Sunday Times has learnt.

ID theft down, fraud up, reports FTC Good news from the Federal Trade Commission: While ID thefts remained the top complaint among consumers nationwide last year, the number of those complaints dropped 5 percent. The bad news is fraud complaints rose 2 percent. However, 6 percent fewer victims let crooks beat them out of money.

March 6 (Bloomberg) — Former McKesson Corp. Chairman Charles McCall was sentenced to 10 years in prison for participating in a fraud to inflate sales revenue a decade ago that cost investors $8.6 billion, one of the largest white- collar crimes at the time.

A Glencoe businessman who failed to report more than $5.3 million in income over 10 years was sentenced to five years in federal prison for tax fraud.

Pledges to crack down on benefit fraud in Jersey have not been fulfilled, an annual report into government accounts reveals.

Cuyahoga County Special Prosecuting Attorney James A. Gutierrez released a report Friday in which he stated, “criminal prosecution is not appropriate” in the Lucas County GOP signature fraud investigation.

The number of suspected insurance fraud notifications received by the Virginia State Police are continuing to increase, according to the Insurance Fraud Program’s 2009 Annual Report Last year, the …