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If you live in one of these states, take special care of your personal info and monitor online transactions: The FBI reports instances of online fraud are on the rise.

When Billy McFarlands ‘FYRE FESTIVAL’ was set to hit the Bahamas to  become the mother of all music festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, and the birth mother to all music festivals, Woodstock to shame.  Unlike Coachella that is in the middle of the dessert designed for the real music connoisseur, Fyre Festival was suppose to give […]

Finally someone is going to pay for the abysmal sandwiches and electricity-less tent sham known as Fyre Festival, and it isn’t Ja Rule. The fest’s organizer and promoter Billy McFarland has been sentenced to six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud back in March. McFarland was sentenced on Thursday, per the New York Times, for his elaborate festival scheme that promised […]

Dolezal is a glaring reminder that the main beneficiaries of the welfare system are overwhelmingly white. Yes you read that right.   After three years in the headlines, Rachel Dolezal finds herself wrapped in another complicated matter involving race. Dolezal, who is most famously known for being exposed as a white woman after years of performing blackness, […]

The South Florida teen accused of pretending to be a doctor was arrested again on new fraud charges Tuesday night, police said. Malachi Love-Robinson, the 18-year-old who has been dubbed “Dr. Love,” already faces seven charges including fraud and theft after listing himself as “president, CEO and founder” of a West Palm Beach clinic without […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.– Eight former employees of Jimmy Haslam’s Pilot Flying J are facing federal charges related to a fuel rebate scheme. Cleveland Browns owner and Pilot CEO Haslam was not among the group indicted. Continuing coverage of the Pilot Flying J investigation here Ex-Pilot President Mark Hazelwood and seven others were indicted on one count of conspiracy […]

Melodie Gliniewicz, the widow of disgraced Illinois officer Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, was arrested this week after being charged with money laundering in connection to her husband's crimes.

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According to reports, President Obama has received enough votes to move forward with his Iran nuclear deal.

Uh-oh! Teddy RIley is in trouble. The Receivables Exchange, an online investment company, is an electronic marketplace. Sellers can auction off eligible receivables for sale to investors. The investment company sells off debt owed to them.  As the debtor owes money, the buyer can legally collect on that money. According to the JasmineBRAND.com, Riley agreed to sell receivables […]

Leroy Barnes (pictured), a dancing hamster on the wildly popular Kia car commercials, is reportedly facing disability fraud charges for collecting in excess of $51,000 in benefits over a year’s time, starting in September 2010. The actor/dancer who was reportedly arrested in March, allegedly lied to doctors that he was unemployed so they’d sign off on […]

*Apollo Nida is reportedly ready to cut a plea deal with the government just two months after his arrest for identity theft, bank fraud, and conspiracy in his gearing up to follow in their footsteps. The “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star and husband of Phaedra Parks was arrested on January 24. On February 14, the […]

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27-year-old Ryan Greer racked up one large bill with a stolen credit card. According to reports, Greer ran up a $20,000 bill at the Townsend…