Counterfeiting And Forgery
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The former chief operating officer at the law firm run by convicted Ponzi scheme operator Scott Rothstein was sentenced Friday to the maximum 10 years in federal prison for her role in the $1.2 billion fraud.
PARIS - The lawyer for former French bank trader Jerome Kerviel says he is appealing a Paris court's verdict sending Kerviel to prison for three years and ordering him to pay a staggering euro4.9 billion ($6.7 billion) in damages.
PARIS - A Paris court has convicted former trader Jerome Kerviel guilty of all charges in one of history's biggest trading frauds, sentencing him to three years in prison and ordering him to repay Societe Generale SA the staggering euro4.9 billion ($6.72 billion) that the bank lost.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A man who admitted forging 10,000 documents in a $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme allegedly led by Minnesota businessman Tom Petters has been sentenced to five years in prison.
ALGIERS, Algeria - A lawyer says a prominent Algerian anti-corruption activist has been convicted of forgery, after human rights organizations expressed fears the case was designed to silence him.
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