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#333 Updated: 1/8/07 7:37 a.m.

Fraud may cost county $2 billion
One deputy district attorney says the assistance programs are "a pot of gold."

Good credit can attract a bad deal
More mortgage fraud scammers are targeting area, and an FBI team is targeting
them

Supreme Court to rule on whistle-blowing
After 17 years, James Stone has perhaps a few more months to wait before he
learns whether he will collect up to $1 million for exposing fraud by a government
contractor at a now-closed nuclear weapons plant.

Ex-CEO's appeal backfires; Judge extends Wittig's sentence in 2003 fraud case
Former Westar Energy executive David Wittig was resentenced Monday to 60
months in prison in a 2003 bank fraud case, nine months more than his original
sentence in the matter.

86 arrested in insurance fraud scheme, 16 others wanted
Eighty-six people have been arrested on suspicion of bilking insurance companies
out of more than $500,000, one of California's largest ever insurance fraud cases,
the district attorney's office said.

Four people plead guilty in mortgage fraud conspiracy
Four people accused of participating in a mortgage fraud conspiracy that stole
millions of dollars and left a gated community in Arapahoe County ravaged by
foreclosures pleaded guilty in federal court Friday.

News from the San Joaquin Valley
The former chief financial officer for a Bakersfield nonprofit agency that offers job
training for the mentally retarded has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for
embezzling more than $420,000.

Billings, Mont. Man Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
A Billings, Mont., insurance agent who pleaded guilty to fraud was sentenced to
three years in prison

Pennsylvania's Top 10 Insurance Fraud Cases of 2006 Released Today
The con artists inducted into this year's Top 10 list include a fugitive minister, a
few insurance agents and some just plain dumb crooks