Fraud

Histadrut corruption probe: Judge blocks extension of restrictions on union chairman

Arnon Bar-David, the longtime chairman of Israel’s largest labor federation, became the central figure in a sweeping corruption investigation that came to light in November. 

Arnon Ben Dor, Chairman of the Histadrut, visits in the Northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona., June 27, 2024.
An illustration of an extradition order and handcuffs.

Mexican authorities extradite Roy Cuzin to Israel in UTrade investor fraud case

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Tel Aviv court for criminal trial, June 3, 2025.

How will revoking fraud, breach of trust offenses change Netanyahu's trial? - explainer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 5, 2026.

Coalition advances bill repealing fraud, breach of trust offenses amid Netanyahu trial


Florida woman swindles Holocaust survivor out of $2.8m in romance scam

The suspect used the Holocaust survivor's money to buy a house, a boat, cars and other extravagant luxuries as the elderly man lost his life savings.

Shekels and dollars

Pet fish commit credit card fraud, doxxing while playing video game

On the Mutekimaru Channel, a YouTube streamer where fish play video games, the buggy game Pokémon Violet glitched and let fish access the Nintendo eShop.

 A Siamese fighting fish, also known as a Betta (Illustrative).

Fox chief Rupert Murdoch to be deposed in $1.6b. Dominion defamation case

Fox has argued that it had a right to report on election-fraud allegations made by Trump and his lawyers and that Dominion’s lawsuit would stifle press freedom.

  Donald Trump speaks to media mogul Rupert Murdoch as they walk out of Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland, June 25, 2016.

Special ed care provider for NYC yeshivas charged with $2.8m. embezzlement

Martin Handler was accused of overbilling the government for services, stealing funds and other crimes amounting to $2.8m in damages.

 CHILDREN GET OFF a yeshiva school bus in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

US Rep. Santos says he won't resign, only leave if voted out in next election

George Santos, who lied about his educational, professional and religious background, promised to resign if 142 people asked but later rescinded the statement.

US Rep.-elect George Santos, a New York Republican, greets a colleague in the House Chamber during the fourth day of voting for Speaker of the House at the US Capitol Building on Jan. 06, 2023.

Donald Trump ordered by judge to face New York fraud lawsuit

Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka and the Trump Organization last September over what she called ‘staggering’ fraud.

Former US President Donald Trump, who announced a third run for the presidency in 2024, hosts a New Year's Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, US, December 31, 2022.

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty in crypto fraud case

Once hailed as the Jewish king of cryptocurrency, the 30-year-old entrepreneur known as SBF pleaded not guilty to criminal charges on Tuesday as as he faces up to 115 years in prison.

 Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, leaves following a hearing at Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. January 3, 2023.

US charges investor Avraham Eisenberg with fraud in Mango crypto case

Eisenberg's trades in futures related to the MNGO crypto token enabled him to withdraw $110 million in cryptocurrencies from other investors' deposits, with no apparent intention to repay.

Representations of cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Ethereum and DogeCoin are placed on PC motherboard in this illustration taken, June 29, 2021.

Sam Bankman-Fried to be extradited to US

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Bahamas said in a statement that the foreign minister had signed off on allowing Bankman-Fried's extradition to the United States.

 Sam Bankman-Fried testifies during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 2021.

Israeli in US smuggled 'sensitive' tech used for nukes to Russia

Alexey Brayman was charged with bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy as part of a Russian sanction-evading network

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a ceremony to declare the annexation of the Russian-controlled territories of four Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, after holding what Russian authorities called referendums in the occupied areas of Ukraine that w