As promised, federal authorities have amped up criminal mortgage fraud prosecutions. ...more

November 6, 2009

A former Tampa Tribune credit manager accused of conspiring with his wife to steal more than $1 million from the newspaper and its parent company plans to plead guilty and expects to go to prison. ...more

November 5, 2009

At the peak of the housing boom, an unemployed Tampa day trader managed to get two mortgages worth more than $300,000, despite having no income, authorities say. ...more

November 4, 2009

As promised, federal authorities have amped up criminal mortgage fraud prosecutions. ...more

November 3, 2009

A Boca Raton businessman has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for running a $44 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded dozens. ...more

October 18, 2009

Due to space limitations in yesterday's issue of Hernando Today the following information was omitted from a story about postal scams. ...more

October 2, 2009

Two men from Florida and two from Mexico are still sought in a crackdown on a car-theft ring busted Tuesday, the FBI said today. ...more

March 25, 2009

Two decades ago, a group of car thieves hit on a way to steal cars and get away with it. It was a scheme that involved bogus vehicle identification numbers and multistate - even multinational - coordination. The result: millions in profit. ...more

March 25, 2009

Arrest warrants issued for 17 members of an international car-cloning ring - an organization that ran a cell in Tampa - were issued by the FBI today, laying open what had been a new and improved style of thievery that until recently went almost undetectable. ...more

March 24, 2009

A former Tampa Tribune credit manager and his wife, who are accused of stealing more than $1 million from the newspaper and its parent company, have been placed on house arrest, according to court documents. ...more

February 18, 2009