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French Trader Gets 3 Years in Prison After $6.7B Loss

(Oct. 5) -- The young French stock trader whose risky, unauthorized deals lost his bank nearly $7 billion on the eve of the Great Recession will spend the next three years behind bars after being convicted of forgery and breach of trust. A Paris court handed Jerome Kerviel a five-year prison sentence today, with the...

German Woman Sentenced for Selling Fakes of Fakes

(Sept. 9) -- So you've spent $3,000 on what you thought was an authentic forgery by a master forger, only to find out that the forgery you bought was itself a forgery. What do you do next? You take the forgery forger to court, of course. Dresden, Germany, resident Petra Kujau, 51, was fined $380,000 this week and given a...

Cops: Teacher Lied About Brain Cancer to Skip Work

Lower Swatara Township Police Department

(July 19) -- Teachers receive plenty of questionable sick notes from students. Authorities in Pennsylvania say one special-education teacher has been dishing them out. Police believe Middletown educator Leslie Herneisey, 51, lied about tumors and cancer for more than a decade so she could skip work. Herneisey began...

French Rogue Trader's Trial Opens in Paris

NICE, France (June 8) -- A trial pitting France's rogue trader-turned-folk-hero Jerome Kerviel against the giant French bank that says he gambled away billions of its money in secret trades opened today in Paris. Kerviel arrived in court with five lawyers, fighting their way through a throng of 200 journalists from around...

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06/03/12 Cedar Falls Police Looking For Woman Who Used Fake... Source: ABC - KCRG 9 News - Cedar Rapids IA The Cedar Falls Police Department is asking the public's help in identifying a woman suspected of passing a large amount of counterfeit $100 bills.
06/03/12 Woman forged prescriptions Source: Owen Sound Sun Times - ON - Canada For passing five forged prescriptions for narcotics and possession of pot, Carrie Langlois was fined $220 Thursday in the Ontario Court of Justice but must wait until July 19 for the rest of her sentence.
06/03/12 Four arrested in Kohl's forgery case Source: Lawrence Journal-World & 6 News - Lawrence KS Two Lawrence men and two Lawrence women were arrested Saturday at around 8 p.m. for passing bad checks at Kohl's, 3240 Iowa, according to Lawrence Police Sgt. Kirk Fultz.
06/03/12 I Team 10 Investigation: Secret Service raid Penfield... Source: NBC - WHEC-TV News10 - Rochester NY A Penfield man is under arrest, accused of running a credit card fraud operation out of his home.
06/03/12 Second in check forging ring sentenced Source: The Ironton Tribune - Ironton OH One of 11 Kentucky residents involved in check forging in Lawrence County was sentenced Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.