Former Mayor Kevin H. White, who led the city for 16 years including racially turbulent times in the 1970s, died Friday, a family spokesman said. He was 82.
White, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2003, died peacefully at his Boston home surrounded by his family, spokesman and friend George Regan said.
"He was a man who built Boston into the world-class city it is today," said Regan, who called his loss "devastating." Read More
A retired architect and military veteran told jurors at Texas financier R. Allen Stanford's fraud trial Friday that he lost nearly all of his life savings investing with Stanford, and has survived by eating "a lot of macaroni and cheese" and selling his possessions on eBay. Read More
A Nevada state psychiatrist testified Friday that despite two strokes, the embattled former physician-owner of Las Vegas outpatient clinics involved in a 2008 hepatitis outbreak is mentally competent to stand trial on criminal charges. Read More
Federal and state law enforcement officials announced Friday they have launched a fraud-fighting unit, starting with 55 prosecutors and investigators, to root out wrongdoing in the market for residential mortgage-backed securities. Read More
A six-year legal battle involving the jailed father-son duo who headed now-defunct Adelphia Communications Corp. has ended after prosecutors withdrew tax fraud charges related to their earlier conviction in a $1.9 billion fraud case.
Prosecutors said they withdrew the tax-related charges Wednesday against the Pennsylvania cable company's founder John Rigas and his son Timothy because they weren't likely to end in substantial additional jail time or restitution. Read More
A Taiwan representative accused of underpaying and overworking two Filipina housekeepers at her suburban Kansas City home was sentenced Friday to time served and immediate deportation.
Liu Hsien Hsien, who is also known as Jacqueline Liu, pleaded guilty Nov. 18 as part of a plea agreement to one count of fraud in foreign labor contracting. Liu had been the director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City where she was arrested Nov. 10. Read More
Three Southern California men have been arrested on federal tax fraud charges for allegedly using stolen identities to file fake tax returns seeking thousands of dollars in refunds.
Internal Revenue Service spokeswoman Linda Lowery says the men claimed to be tax preparers to gather identifications and use them to falsely claim the $8,000 first-time homebuyer credit. Read More
A political action committee backing Newt Gingrich is opening up a new line of attack against Mitt Romney, questioning his connection to a company that paid a multimillion-dollar fine for Medicare fraud.
Winning Our Future released a clip on Thursday of a seven-minute online documentary they plan to unveil on Friday labeled "blood money." It takes aim at the acquisition by Romney's private equity firm, Bain Capital, of the medical testing company Damon Corp. Read More
The in-vitro treatments. The suburban house. The lavish trips and dinners out.
None of it was worth it, a soccer mom-turned-"abduction hoax" mom told a federal judge Thursday before she was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for a $1 million swindle. Read More
A former operator of a New York-based immigration law firm has been extradited to New York from Canada to face charges he led a massive immigration fraud ring that processed thousands of false immigration applications. Read More
