Fraud doesn’t mean what it used to. A string of high-profile federal prosecutions are falling apart as courts apply a newly narrowed legal definition of the crime. The latest case came this week in ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Federal Reserve today announced an industry-recommended definition of synthetic identity fraud, which was developed by a focus group of fraud experts in response to a ...

Defense attorney Alina Habba called the assets at issue 'Mona Lisa" properties—meaning they couldn't be overvalued as long as there was a prospective buyer who would pay the stated price. The ...

Identity fraud is the unauthorised use of a person’s personal information by another person to commit a crime or deceive or defraud that person or a third party in order to take advantage of the ...