BANGKOK — A court in China sentenced 11 people to death on Monday for their roles in a family-run crime syndicate accused of running illegal gambling and scam operations worth more than $1.4 billion and for the deaths of disobedient workers. The Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Zhou Weichang — all…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – If you received an invitation to Louisville Fashion Week or purchased tickets from the website, the Better Business Bureau says the event is likely a scam. Mellwood Art Center alerted BBB via BBB’s ScamTracker of a website promoting an event called “Louisville Fashion Week.” The website promotes a four-day event scheduled for November 6 through 9 at…
A Missouri woman was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in federal prison for scheming to defraud Elvis Presley’s family by trying to auction off his Graceland home and property before a judge halted the brazen foreclosure sale. U.S. District Judge John T. Fowlkes Jr. sentenced Lisa Jeanine Findley in federal court in Memphis…
A conservative lawyer who has said she was falsely accused of being at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been named to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia, according to a copy of an email she sent to staff obtained by CBS News. The Virginia office was…
New York’s attorney general moved Thursday to have the state’s highest court reinstate President Trump’s staggering civil fraud penalty, appealing a lower-court decision that slashed the potential half-billion-dollar fine to $0. Attorney General Letitia James’ office filed a notice of appeal with the state’s Court of Appeals, seeking to reverse the mid-level Appellate Division’s ruling…
The scandal involving a company using fraudulent documents to win a HK$52.9 million (US$6.78 million) bottled water supply contract has put the spotlight on the Hong Kong government’s procurement mechanism. Equally worthy of concern is the long-standing practice of subcontracting works in the construction industry, with the city’s railway operator looking into a suspected fraud…
Hong Kong police have granted bail to a man who allegedly pretended to be a lawyer and tricked his date into paying a restaurant bill of more than HK$80,000 (US$10,258). The 23-year-old man, surnamed Wong, who was arrested on suspicion of obtaining property by deception, was released on bail on Sunday but must report back…
Illegal cross-border work has long been an issue of concern in Hong Kong. Even though the problem might not be considered rampant, the growing travel convenience between the city and the mainland has created more room for abuse. The police have launched an investigation after a driver on a mainland Chinese ride-hailing platform purportedly told…
Hong Kong and Shenzhen authorities have arrested a total of 12 people in a joint operation targeting the manufacturing and sale of suspected fake concert tickets. Items seized by Hong Kong police in a joint operation with Shenzhen authorities against suspected fake concert tickets. Photo: Screenshot, via Facebook. More than 400 high-quality counterfeit or half-finished…
Hong Kong authorities have arrested two people suspected of misleading the government into entering a now-partly suspended HK$52.9 million contract to supply water bottled from mainland China to government offices in the city. The Hong Kong government suspended the contract with Xin Ding Xin Trading Co. as a bottled water supplier to certain government offices…