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Mistrial for teacher accused of defrauding LAUSD

latimes.com | 2/25/09 | $930,000 | suspect: Matthias Vheru | victim: LAUSD

A mistrial was declared Wednesday in a fraud case against a former Los Angeles Unified School District math teacher who prosecutors said conned the district into placing a $3.7-million order to buy math textbooks he wrote.

Feds say professor stole from NASA

chron.com | 2/26/09 | $3.4 million | suspect: Samim Anghaie | victim: NASA Federal investigators are alleging that a University of Florida professor and three other members of his family fraudulently received millions of dollars from NASA and then funneled money to their personal bank accounts, court documents show.

Military Contract Fraud

usdoj.gov | 2/13/09 | $26.3 million | suspect: APL Limited | victim: U.S. Government

APL Limited has agreed to pay the government $26.3 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the United States in connection with contracts to transport cargo in shipping containers to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The government alleges that APL, a wholly-owned American subsidiary of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines Limited, knowingly overcharged and double-billed the Department of Defense to transport thousands of containers from ports to inland delivery destinations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

High roller's paradise lost to debts, fraud case

[seattletimes.com](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008746252_gambler150.html) | 2/15/09 | suspect: Omar Siddiqui | victim: Frys Electronics Omar Siddiqui was well-known on the Vegas strip. Casinos competed to lure the high-stakes San Francisco Bay Area gambler to their tables. They flew him on private jets. They put him up free in opulent suites. And they extended him millions of dollars in credit on his signature alone. He was good for business.

Woman on trial for property management embezzlement

dailytribune.com | $4 million | suspect: Hanan Dallo | victim: Hartman & Tyner, Inc. Hannan Dallo, who worked as an accounts payable clerk at Southfield-based Hartman & Tyner Inc., was part of a scheme involving phony work orders that bilked $4.6 million from the company from 2004 to 2007, Assistant Prosecutor Rob Novy told a jury.

Former oil executive pleads guilty in fraud scheme

businessweek.com | 1/28/09 | $1 million | suspect: Gregory Courtney | victim: Shell Oil Co. A former oil executive accused of diverting more than $1 million from a Shell Deepwater Development contract for his personal use has pleaded guilty to income tax evasion and mail fraud.

FIVE INDICTED FOR CONTRACT FRAUD

usdoj.gov | 12/18/08 | $750,000 | victim: Bossier Parish School Board A scheme to defraud the Bossier Parish School Board of more than three $750,000 in connection with the purchase and maintenance of air conditioning systems within the school district has resulted in the indictment of five individuals, three of whom are employed by the School Board.

Former Gen Re executive Ferguson gets 2 years in prison

ap.google.com | 12/16/08 | suspect: Ronald Ferguson | victim: General Re Corp. The former chief executive of General Re Corp. was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison and fined $200,000 for his role in a scheme that cost shareholders of American International Group Inc. more than $500 million.

Auctioneers subpoenaed in sports memorabilia fraud probe

chicagotribune.com | 8/5/08 | Jeff Coen

There's a lot of money to be made in the sports memorabilia business, as shown by an auction in Chicago late last week in which a single baseball card sold for $1.62 million.

Accountants indicted on claims they failed to report fraud at U.S. Signal

mlive.com | 5/6/08 | Nate Reens

GRAND RAPIDS -- Three accountants who allegedly helped former U.S. Signal executives cover up a kickback scheme face charges for concealing the mail fraud conspiracy.