Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Court costs can reach very high amounts, often far beyond the actual monetary worth of a case. Cases are known in which one party won the case, but lost more than the monetary worth in court costs. Court costs may be awarded to one or both parties in a lawsuit, or they may be waived. [1]
(Reuters) -A Los Angeles federal jury on Tuesday found disbarred California attorney Tom Girardi guilty of four counts of wire fraud after U.S. prosecutors accused him of stealing $15 million in ...
Varela and Gilmartin each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and Hernandez pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit fraud. Varela was sentenced to 24 months in prison and fined $127,000, Gilmartin was sentenced to eight months in prison and fined $100,000 for his role in the conspiracy, and ...
Main Menu. News
The Bell scandal involved the misappropriation of public funds in Bell, California, United States, over a period of several years in the late 2000s.In July 2010, the Los Angeles Times published an investigative article on possible malfeasance in the neighboring city of Maywood, revealing that the city officials of Bell received salaries that were reported as the highest in the nation. [1]
—December 2023: Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to four years in prison for fraud —January 2024: A sentencing hearing is expected for founder Manish Lachwani, who pled guilty to fraud ...
A 1998 study cited the American Insurance Association's estimate of fraud at 10% of the cost of claims paid, or about $3 billion. The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud adopted the AIA's estimate.
Around 2014, Charles C. Liu and Xin Wang, a married couple and U.S. citizens in California, sought out investments from several Chinese companies while claiming that they were going to use the money to build a cancer treatment center, through which they would later establish a means for investors to obtain an EB-5 visa. The EB-5 program allowed ...