In addition, stories about common financial crimes that affect scores of everyday citizens (Ponzi schemes; real estate and other investment frauds; bank robbery; identity theft; medical fraud; embezzlement; insurance fraud; murder-for-hire; art theft; credit card fraud; and, money laundering) are also featured.
Wattenburg expresses strong support for nuclear power and disdain for the Sierra Club and the environmental movement, supporters of which he calls eco-freaks, eco-frauds or eco-nuts.
To obviate these difficulties and to put a check upon frauds on the revenue, Robert Walpole proposed in his "excise scheme" of 1733, the system of warehousing for tobacco and wine.
The handling of the Schmidt murder case, the prosecution of the poultry trust and of election frauds won for Whitman high commendation.
Hart, Brawner, McCormick, and three other chorus girls were arraigned in West Side Court but were freed by Magistrate Guy Van Amringe, who presided in Commercial Frauds Court, on May 7, 1935.
Feder, Kenneth L. Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology’’.
Pigasus Award, an award given out by James Randi which recognizes paranormal frauds
section 13 of the Debtors Act 1869 and section 13 of the Debtors Act (Ireland) 1872 (which relate to the obtaining of credit by false pretences and to certain frauds on creditors)
Les Henderson, "Crimes of Persuasion: Schemes, Scams, Frauds - How con artists will steal your savings and inheritance through telemarketing fraud, investment schemes and consumer scams" 2000, ISBN 0-9687133-0-0 (paperback)
Shell Games: Studies in Frauds, Scams and Deceit in Early Modern Culture, 1300-1650 with Mark Crane and Margaret Reeves (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004) and The Devil in Society in Premodern Europe (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012) with Peter Dendle (Penn State Mont Alto).
He then served as Master of the Drapers' Company, sat as an alderman on the City of London Corporation, and was president of St Thomas' Hospital, which he probably saved from ruin, by discovering the frauds of a dishonest steward.
Other spirit photographers exposed as frauds include David Duguid and Edward Wyllie.