A federal judge approved the extradition to Germany of the mother of a man suspected of setting dozens of fires in Los Angeles over the New Year holidays, the U.S. Attorney's office said Thursday.
Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo can be extradited to the United States to face money laundering charges, judges in Guatemala ruled unanimously.
An agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been charged with a variety of crimes he allegedly committed while on the job, including selling cigarettes that were part of undercover tobacco investigations, according to the Justice Department.
The trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of sex with an underage nightclub dancer and abuse of power opened Wednesday in Milan.
A Catholic nun pleaded guilty Thursday to embezzling $850,000 from a college in the New York City suburbs, the U.S. Southern District Attorney's Office announced in a press release.
A French Catholic priest who prosecutors said embezzled 2 million euros and led a wild life including "cultural pilgrimages" to Las Vegas has had his jail term reduced by an appeals court.
Outgoing New York state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. and his son, Pedro, were charged Tuesday with embezzling $500,000 from a federally funded health care nonprofit, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
The reading of the verdict in the corruption trial of former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been postponed until December 27, the judge's office said.
In April 2009, comedian Dane Cook talked with CNN's Larry King about his half-brother's arrest on embezzlement charges.
The comedian's half brother and sister-in-law admitted to embezzling from Cook
Darryl McCauley is convicted of stealing the money while working as Cook's business manager
Police corruption and abuse are rife in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.
Taiwan's former leader Chen Shui-bian and and his wife Wu Shu-jen have been sentenced to 20 years in jail, the island's High Court reported. Both had initially been sentenced to life imprisonment after their convictions in 2009 on charges of corruption.
Ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo, facing money-laundering charges in the U.S., was captured Tuesday on a farm on the Guatemalan coast, that country's attorney general said.
Former President Alfonso Portillo of Guatemala faces money-laundering charges in the United States, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.
A jury convicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon on Tuesday of embezzlement for improperly using gift cards intended for the needy, the chief investigator for the state prosecutor's office said.
A disgraced South Korean scientist -- who gained fame in 2004 when he claimed to have cloned human embryonic stem cells -- on Monday was convicted of embezzling money and illegally buying human eggs, state media reported.
Former Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian was convicted Friday on corruption and money laundering charges, and was sentenced to life in prison, according to officials at Taipei City Court.
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori admitted he gave his one-time spy chief $15 million from government coffers, but the money was returned and no crime was committed, his attorneys said at the opening of an embezzlement trial Monday in Peru.
Comedian Dane Cook took a somber tone and described a sense of "terrible betrayal" in discussing the recent arrest of his half brother, who is accused of embezzling millions from him.
The corruption trial of former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian began Thursday, a case that has gripped the island nation for months and one in which a conviction can bring life imprisonment.
A former official of a cabinet company that has laid off employees has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling $9.9 million from the company over seven years.
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian pleaded not guilty to corruption charges Monday during a pre-trial hearing in Taipei.
A Taiwan court early Tuesday ordered ex-President Chen Shui-bian, who is facing corruption charges, back to jail after deeming him a flight risk.
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, accused of embezzling about $18 million, has remained free on bail after a nearly eight-hour court hearing in which prosecutors argued that he should be jailed.
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian is indicted on several corruption charges. CNN's Anna Coren reports.
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian was freed on bail early Saturday after spending a month in jail while prosecutors prepared an indictment on several corruption charges, including embezzlement and accepting bribes.
The Roman Catholic Church is cutting off funds to the community organizing group ACORN, citing complaints over its voter registration drives in the November 4 election as part of the reason.
CNN's Drew Griffin reports on new allegations of embezzlement and fraud at ACORN.
Community organizing group ACORN, investigated this year for filing fraudulent voter registration forms, has fired two board members it had asked to investigate allegations that an ACORN founder's brother embezzled nearly $1 million.
A judge ordered the former president of Taiwan detained Wednesday on corruption charges, just hours after he was taken to a hospital after he accused police of pushing and rough-handling him before he appeared in court in Taipei, according to state-run media.
ACORN locked in a legal dispute stemming from allegations that the brother of the group's founder misappropriated nearly $1 million of the nonprofit's money
The jailing of two reporters for "abuse of power" is a blow to press freedom in Vietnam
Greenpeace filed a criminal complaint with Japanese prosecutors Thursday, accusing whaling-ship crew members of stealing whale meat from a hunting trip.
As if you didn't have enough to worry about.
Police think a fatal, single vehicle crash might be related to the deaths of a woman and her four children in Iowa.
They cheated, stole, scammed and assaulted. They lied, got arrested, used illegal drugs and committed lewd acts.
An appeals court suspended on Thursday a three-year prison term handed to Hyundai Chairman Chung Mong-koo for embezzlement, saying the tycoon is too important to South Korea's economy to go to jail.
Chairman's prison term suspended
In March 2006, the Tennessee board that regulates cemeteries got a five-page complaint, in neatly penned cursive longhand, from Geraldine Story, an elderly Memphis woman. Story's husband Ralph had died on January 22. In preparation for that day, he and she had each, more than thirty years earlier, purchased prepaid funeral services from the Forest Hill Funeral Home in Memphis, to make sure that each's burial expenses would not be a burden to the other or to their families.
MJ -- Ma Ying-jeou AR -- Anjali Rao
Last year, Hwang Woo-suk was Korea's scientific Superman. He had three institutes, a stamp created in his honor, and, over the years, $60 million at his disposal. His face was plastered on buses in...
Fortune: Hyundai's heaviesupdated: Thu May 11 2006 13:04:00
For the past three years, South Korea's Hyundai Motor has been the fastest-growing automaker on the planet. Driven by increased sales in the U.S., China, and India--not to mention in its home count...
For the past three years, South Korea's Hyundai Motor has been the fastest-growing automaker on the planet. Driven by increased sales in the U.S., China, and India - not to mention in its home country - it has boosted production by a third and is poised to pass DaimlerChrysler and join the ranks of the world's top five auto manufacturers. Unit sales were up 16% in the first quarter, leaving industry observers wondering whether anything could slow the company's growth.
Kim Woo Choong, long Korea's most respected tycoon and lately its most famous fugitive, appears smaller than life. Once a commanding figure in a smart business suit, the founder and former chairman...
It was a violently windy spring day in downtown Wichita, Kansas (think Wizard of Oz), but she insisted on standing on a street corner to smoke a cigarette. The 38-year-old mother of two still isn't...
FORTUNE's Ronald Henkoff met with Mark Whitacre in North Carolina and New York. The following interview focuses on the reasons behind his falling out with the FBI--beginning with his original conta...
"I've disappointed a lot of people, mainly myself. I've destroyed my life." So ends the latest cautionary tale of charities with lax accounting practices, this time involving the American Parkinson...
Apart from the dangers of cuts in benefits and poor investments, there is a more sinister threat to your retirement savings. It's the possibility that someone will steal -- or grossly mishandle -- ...
THE CROOKS in your company have never been so tempted. The spread of technology that makes office work easier can make white-collar crimes almost laughably simple. Laser printers can forge document...
SACRAMENTO -- The number of women being arrested for embezzling . . . is increasing at a rate more than twice that of men . . . Statistics gathered by the FBI show that the number of women arrested...
WHATEVER HAPPENED to Robert Vesco? For years he was a fixture on evening news broadcasts: the fugitive financier, heavyweight champion of embezzlers. Back in 1970 he took over Investors Overseas Se...
An unusual wrinkle for gaming casinos is an expected rash of suits from employers of gamblers . . . One such suit was filed by Vic Snyder, a Philadelphia plumber who also is an attorney, against Re...
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