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#373 Updated: 3/12/07 7:58 a.m.

To valley residents:Don’t be so polite
Fraud expert says too many of us are still willing to volunteer information

LANL Former worker pleads guilty to embezzlement
A former Los Alamos National Laboratory worker accused of using bogus purchase
orders to embezzle more than $55,000 from the lab has pleaded guilty in the
scheme.

Former investment firm executives indicted for fraud
Two former Global Power Global Wealth Enterprises executives were indicted on
multiple charges involving a fraudulent investment scheme, U.S. Attorney
Catherine Hanaway said Friday.

Grandmother faces prison in embezzlement
A 68-year-old grandmother will spend a year in prison for embezzling nearly
$200,000 from a Greenwich company to help her crack-addicted son pay rent and
raise his children, attorneys said yesterday.

Five East Valley men accused of fraud
A federal grand jury in Phoenix on Friday returned a 33-count indictment against
nine men, including four from Scottsdale and one from Cave Creek, on charges of
operating what law enforcement authorities called a wide-ranging mail fraud and
money-laundering scheme that took in $40 million and defrauded more than 300
people.

Russia's Interior Ministry investigates PriceWaterhouse on tax dodging allegations
Russian police investigators visited the Moscow office of international auditing firm
PricewaterhouseCoopers on Friday as part of an ongoing probe into alleged of tax
dodging.