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The SNC-Lavalin affair (French: Affaire SNC-Lavalin) is a political scandal involving attempted political interference with the justice system by the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The Parliament of Canada 's Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion found that Trudeau improperly influenced then Minister ...
Gary Sorenson. Gary Allen[1] Sorenson (born 1943 in Calgary, Alberta) [2] is a Canadian businessman who was arrested at Calgary International Airport on September 29, 2009 for an alleged role in a Ponzi scheme that scammed investors of more than C$ 300 million, the largest in Canada. [3] On July 28, 2015 Gary Sorenson, 71, and Milowe Brost, 61 ...
Long firm fraud. A long firm fraud (also known as a consumer credit fraud) is a crime that uses a trading company set up for fraudulent purposes; the basic operation is to run the company as an apparently legitimate business by buying goods and paying suppliers promptly to secure a good credit record. [1][2] Once they are sufficiently well ...
The Norbourg scandal is a major financial scandal that took place in 2005. The scandal involved the Montreal, Quebec based Norbourg Financial Group, a trust-fund company founded by Vincent Lacroix. He diverted money from a Norbourg trust fund for personal interests. Nearly 9,200 investors in Quebec lost millions of dollars.
Incarcerated. Criminal charge. Securities fraud. Wire fraud. Money laundering. Penalty. 20 years imprisonment. Marc Stuart Dreier (born May 12, 1950) is an American former lawyer who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 2009 for committing investment fraud using a Ponzi scheme.
A former Mastercard executive almost lost $100,000 to an account takeover scam. Scammers accessed her real-estate agent's email and impersonated a title company. Account takeover fraud surged 354% ...
Murder, theft, fraud. Penalty. Life imprisonment, 4 years. Albert Johnson Walker (born 1946), also known as The Rolex Killer, [1] is a Canadian criminal serving a prison term for embezzlement and murder. He is known for murdering an Englishman whose identity he had been assuming, and for posing for years as though his daughter was his wife.
Credit card fraud is an inclusive term for fraud committed using a payment card, such as a credit card or debit card. [1] The purpose may be to obtain goods or services or to make payment to another account, which is controlled by a criminal. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the data security standard created to ...