Cuban citizen convicted in U.S. streaming piracy scheme
Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A federal jury in Las Vegas found Yoany Vaillant guilty of conspiring to commit criminal copyright infringement for his work on…
Green hydrogen or greenwashing? Mojave water scheme takes new twist
Cadiz Inc. has been called a “zombie,” a “poison pill” and a scheme to “suck the desert dry” by draining a delicate groundwater aquifer north…
Son of ex-Ecuador financial official, former Florida banker guilty in $16M bribery scheme
Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The son of a high-ranking ex-financial official in Ecuador who was a Florida banker pleaded guilty for his role in an…
Jackson, Miss., mayor, two others indicted in alleged bribery scheme
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (C) of Jackson, Miss., was indicted in a bribery scheme on Thursday. File Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI | License Photo Nov.…
Peruvian man gets 8 years in prison in fraud scheme targeting U.S. immigrants
Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A Peruvian national was sentenced Thursday to more than eight years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $700,000 in restitution…
Teva pays $450 million to settle kickback scheme charges
The Teva Pharmaceutical logo is seen in English and Hebrew at its tablet production plant in Jerusalem in 2019. The company agreed Thursday to pay…
North Carolina doctor will pay more than $600,000 over laboratory kickback scheme allegations
Dr. Eric Troyer, a North Carolina physician for more than 30 years, agreed to pay the U.S. government $429,254 and $195,746 to his home state…
Former Colorado clerk sentenced to 9 years for voting system data scheme
DENVER — A judge ripped into a Colorado county clerk for her crimes and lies before sentencing her Thursday to nine years behind bars for a…
Offender freed from prison under early release scheme ‘sexually assaulted woman inside an hour’
AN offender who was freed from prison under the Government’s early release scheme allegedly sexually assaulted a woman inside an hour.Amari Ward, 31, got out…
Hiltzik: Draftkings’ heads-I-win, tails-you-lose NFT scheme
It’s always amusing to see a business suffer from the turnabout-is-fair-play principle, so we owe props to the National Football League Players Assn., which has…
Woman charged in Elvis’ Graceland extortion scheme
A woman has been charged in a brazen attempt to scam Elvis Presley’s family out of ownership of the King’s iconic Graceland home and museum.…
Woman charged in alleged scheme to steal Graceland from Presley family
A Missouri woman is accused of trying to defraud Elvis Presley's family of millions of dollars and steal the family's ownership interest in Graceland, the…
Smartmatic executives indicted in alleged bribery scheme
A federal grand jury in Miami has charged the co-founder of Smartmatic, a voting machine maker that is separately suing Fox News for defamation, with…
Nashville man arrested in alleged North Korea weapons scheme
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) supervises the test-firing of a "super-large multiple rocket launcher" weapon in 2019. On Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department…
Defence giant Bae Systems opens door to more ‘like-minded’ countries joining UK-led fighter jet scheme
DEFENCE giant Bae Systems has opened the door to more “like-minded” countries joining the UK-led Tempest project amid speculation about the fighter jet scheme.BAE has…
Two men plead guilty in China-backed scheme targeting Falun Gong
Falun Gong supporters protest against China outside of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., in 2012. On Thursday, two men pleaded guilty for…
UK planned to spend 10bn pounds on Rwanda deportation scheme: Home minister | Migration News
The recently scrapped asylum scheme intended to send people who arrived in Britain without permission to Rwanda.Britain’s previous government had planned to spend 10 billion…
Rapper Sean Kingston, mother charged in wire fraud scheme
Jamaican-American rapper Sean Kingston was arrested in May following a police raid on his Florida home. File Photo by Michael Bush/UPI | License Photo July…
Prison release scheme and the pound surges
The Times leads on government plans to free thousands of prisoners early to ease chronic overcrowding in jails in England and Wales. It says the…
UK looking at what money can be recouped from Rwanda scheme
The government will be looking carefully at what money can and cannot be recouped after it scrapped the Rwanda deportation scheme, Downing Street has said.A…