The co-founder of business automation startup Skael has been accused of illegally inflating its revenues. Baba Nadimpalli, who had also been the CEO of the defunct company, was indicted Tuesday (Sept. 24) by a federal grand jury in San Francisco on charges of securities and wire fraud....
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the unsealing of an indictment Wednesday (May 15) charging two brothers with crimes resulting from an alleged “cutting-edge scheme” in which they stole $25 million worth of cryptocurrency from the ethereum blockchain. Anton Peraire-Bueno, 24, of Boston, and James Peraire-Bueno, 28, of...
If you take your hands off the wheel, you might crash. That proverbial piece of advice, commonly leveled at business leaders and managers, has taken on a new meaning in light of the U.S. Department of Justice‘s (DOJ) investigation revealed Wednesday (May 8) into electric vehicle (EV) automaker...
The looming specter of wire fraud has spurred lawmakers to press big banks for better defenses against bad actors — and a detailing of the impact the scams have had on consumers. On Thursday (April 18), in a letter to the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citi, Sens. Sherrod Brown,...
April 19, 2024
The looming specter of wire fraud has spurred lawmakers to press big banks for better defenses against bad actors — and a detailing of the impact the scams have had on consumers. On Thursday (April 18), in a letter to the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citi, Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and […]
November 04, 2019
Last week, the U.S. subsidiary of Japan’s largest financial media organization, Nikkei, made headlines for the reason that no firm ever wants: The company was the victim of financial fraud...
June 22, 2025
Walmart has agreed to settle a government claim that it ignores scammers within its money-transfer system. The retail giant will pay $10 million to settle the charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the regulator announced Friday (June 20). The commission had brought the case against Walmart in 2022, accusing the company of “turning a […]
September 25, 2024
The co-founder of business automation startup Skael has been accused of illegally inflating its revenues. Baba Nadimpalli, who had also been the CEO of the defunct company, was indicted Tuesday (Sept. 24)...
May 15, 2024
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the unsealing of an indictment Wednesday (May 15) charging two brothers with crimes resulting from an alleged “cutting-edge scheme” in which they stole $25 million worth of...
September 21, 2023
A Florida nurse practitioner has been convicted in a $200 million Medicare fraud scheme. Elizabeth Hernandez, 45, took part in a scheme to defraud the government by submitting phony claims for genetic...