A sports car worth nearly $2 million, an 87-foot yacht and a guitar collection worth as much as $20,000 were among assets seized from a South Florida lawyer suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme, according to a court filing Monday. ...more

November 24, 2009

Federal agents seized computers, bank and investment records, cash and even the key to a Ferrari during an all-night search at the office of a lawyer suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme. ...more

November 7, 2009

TAMPA A 33-year-old Tampa man has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for food stamp fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. ...more

July 10, 2009

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua - Regulators in the Caribbean took over Antiguan banks owned by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford on Friday, hoping to contain damage to the local economy as U.S. investigators explore an alleged fraud scheme involving billions of dollars. ...more

February 21, 2009

An ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal-leaning voter registration group's Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized Thursday, reflecting mounting tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans to vote next month. ...more

October 18, 2008

A former employee for a subsidiary of one of the nation's largest subprime lenders was sentenced Friday in Polk County to nine years in prison for a mortgage fraud scheme that spanned four counties in the Bay area. ...more

October 11, 2008

A former employee for a subsidiary of one of the nation's largest subprime lenders has been sentenced to nine years in prison for a mortgage fraud scheme that spanned four counties in the Bay area, the Florida attorney general's office said today. ...more

October 10, 2008

Two people convicted on racketeering charges in connection with a mortgage scam that bilked dozens of people since 2004 were each sentenced Thursday to five years in prison, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said. ...more

September 27, 2008

Two people convicted on racketeering charges in connection to a mortgage scam that bilked dozens of people since 2004 were each sentenced today to five years in prison, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said. ...more

September 25, 2008

A Seffner man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme that victimized dozens of people since 2004, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said. ...more

September 25, 2008