Fraud

The Edwardsville couple used the money to buy a $1.4 million home in town and six vehicles, according to the federal indictment.

Dana Howard, a state champion at East St. Louis High School and an All-American linebacker at the University of Illinois before being drafted by the Dallas Cowboys and playing for the St. Louis Rams, was named in the indictment along with two others.

A pair of studies found that tens of thousands of construction workers in Missouri and Kansas are incorrectly classified as independent contractors. That means employers are avoiding withholding income tax and paying into programs like Social Security, unemployment insurance and Medicare.

An indictment unsealed Thursday in the U.S. Court for the Southern District of New York alleges the strip mall's owner used a “sham company” to attempt to lure a rush of investors that would artificially inflate the property's value and potentially make him millions.

The strip mall has shown signs of neglect and mismanagement in recent years. Now, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the owners for allegedly engaging in a scheme to "misappropriate" more than $35 million in investor funds.

A long-awaited audit found an array of weaknesses at state unemployment agency.

The podcast “Sympathy Pains” follows the path of lies left by a Highland, Illinois, woman convicted of fraud.

Glenda Seim, 81, fell in love with a man she met online. He was actually a scam artist. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Berry and journalist Ryan Krull discuss the twists and turns of her case.

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 26, 2009 - As of this writing, former financial genius Bernard Madoff sits in the clink…

Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, his wife and his brother-in-law are under federal criminal investigation for a dubious residential property tax…