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Fraud
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International Financial Law Prof Blog
Volkswagen AG Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay $4.3 Billion in Criminal and Civil Penalties; Six Volkswagen Executives and Employees are Indicted in Connection with Conspiracy to Cheat U.S. Emissions Tests
VW to Pay $2.8 Billion Criminal Fine in Guilty Plea and $1.5 Billion Settlement of Civil Environmental, Customs and Financial Violations; Monitor to Be Appointed to Oversee the Parent Company…
Tax
Feds Crack Down on Use of “Tax Zapper” Software by Restaurants and Other Cash Businesses
In December, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against John Yin, a software salesman who worked for a Canadian company that sells “point of sale” software programs that enabled restaurants…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
BIG SURPRISE! – Fraud and identity theft a real problem for online dating sites!
By Peter Vogel
The FBI announced that “John Edward Taylor allegedly trolled dating websites to find unsuspecting women for his ‘romance’ scam, designed to steal their money.” The January 3, 2017 FBI news…
China Law Blog
What to do when Defrauded by an Alibaba Seller
By Dan Harris
Lexology ran an excellent article the other day, entitled, Catching the Bad Guys: Recovery for a Defrauded Alibaba Buyer. Our international manufacturing lawyers can attest to the need for this…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
FTC Action Halts Timeshare Resale Scheme
The Federal Trade Commission has charged the operators of a timeshare reselling scheme with bilking at least $15 million dollars from timeshare property owners by imposing hefty up-front fees based…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Justice Department Recovers Over $4.7 Billion From False Claims Act Cases in Fiscal Year 2016
The Department of Justice obtained more than $4.7 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in fiscal year 2016 ending Sept.…
The Faculty Lounge
Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You, Charlotte
By now, TFL readers are surely aware of the DOE's action to block Charlotte School of Law from receiving federal students loans. The latest development in this saga is this…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Guilty Plea in Cellphone Fraud Scheme To Bilk Compromised Customers
A New York City resident pleaded guilty today in connection with a sophisticated global cellphone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts and “cloning” their phones to make fraudulent…
Minding Your Business
California UCL Standing Requirement — On This You Can Rely
The California Court of Appeal recently confirmed, in case there was any doubt, that plaintiffs must allege (and ultimately prove) actual reliance to adequately state a fraudulent prong Unfair Competition Law claim…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
State Farm Claims Whistleblowers Win in United States Supreme Court and May Get Additional Evidence of Wrongdoing
By Chip Merlin
The Rigsby sisters have now prevailed in the highest court of the land in their decade long fight against State Farm.1 The Rigsby sisters were catastrophe adjusters working for State…