News tagged with 'Consumer Fraud'

Injury Board would like to Congratulate Gibson Vance for his recent appointment as President of the American Association for Justice. Vance will be one of six officers representing AAJ’s...

Beware on false rumors being spread via Twitter, as scammers come out of the woodwork regarding Haiti. The FBI warns that you could be come a victim of identity fraud if you respond.

A federal judge has given the green light to an investigation into whether Countrywide Finiancial Corp. abused and defrauded borrowers, a key component of this country's failing mortgage industry. Judge Thomas Agresti of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Pittsburgh gave the okay to a Justice Department arm, the Office of the U.S. Trustee, that polices the bankruptcy courts.

The United States District Court, for the Southern District of California, Judge Larry A. Burns presiding, declined to grant a preliminary injunction sought by the U.S. Department of Justice, and dismissed a receiver that had been appointed pursuant to a temporary restraining order that the Government secured on Novemb