• Richmond Times-Dispatch By Iris Taylor Call it tax aftershock. You filed your return and now you owe the Internal Revenue Service a bundle of money that you don’t have. You’re panicking because you know if you ignore it, the IRS […]

  • A multi-million dollar [tag]bank fraud[/tag] and [tag]money laundering[/tag] scheme led to the arrest of Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery today. He, his track coach Steven Riddick, and 12 others have been indicted by a [tag]grand jury[/tag] in New York. The […]

  • Exxon Mobil is taking heat for reporting “record profits” of $8.4 billion for the first quarter of 2006. This was up 7% from the same quarter last year. While this is a record-breaking figure dollar-wise, the media is scarcely reporting […]

  • The four men involved in the [tag]tire slashing[/tag] of 25 vans rented by Republicans to help transport voters to the polls in November 2004 have all been sentenced to jail. Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Michael Brennan said the vandalism was […]

  • [tag]Kenneth Lay[/tag] maintained on Tuesday that [tag]Enron[/tag] was a financially healthy company that was just a victim of outside forces. He claimed that in late 2001 he was just a desperate executive who was trying to fight off a negative […]

  • This weekend, Reggie Bush’s parents and brother moved out of the Spring Valley home they’e been living in since last year. Apparently, information has surfaced linking the property to Michael Michaels, a man affiliated with a sports marketing company and […]

  • The first civil case over the tax shelter called “Son of Boss” went in favor of the IRS. Tax Court Judge David Laro granted summary judgment to the IRS in its case against RJT Investments X LLC in Omaha, Nebraska. […]

  • Robert Brownell, the former CEO of Bielinski Brothers Inc. who masterminded a multi-million dollar fraud, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison today. This was the maximum sentence allowed by law for his guilty plea to charges of conspiracy […]

  • Last week, Sheron L. Jerdee of Cameron, Wisconsin was found guilty of four felony counts of forgery-uttering and two felony counts of [tag]medical assistance fraud[/tag]. Jerdee, 64, owned Ambu-Lift Transports, Inc., a company that provided transportation to people covered under […]

  • Enron had a history of trying to elicit favorable opinions on accounting issues from Arthur Andersen. The executives were aggressive in their reporting of income and expenses, always seeming to find a way to report things in the way that […]