A former U.S. Marine lance corporal, known to neighbors for parading around an apartment complex with a ceremonial sword, has agreed to plead guilty to stealing the identity of a fellow Marine to order a plasma television online. ...more

August 20, 2008

A federal court ordered the former president and founder of a hedge fund to pay nearly $300 million for defrauding clients. ...more

August 20, 2008

The former top attorney at Apple Inc. on Thursday agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle federal regulators' charges that she altered company records to conceal improper backdating of stock options for senior executives including Steve Jobs. ...more

August 15, 2008

Once a cop, always a cop? While his days as a police officer are long behind him, Highlands County Administrator Michael Wright used an old police trick to not only find an unknown suspect but also to get him to immediately admit his guilt. ...more

August 12, 2008

A lawyer in Clearwater Beach charged with public intoxication and DUI; a lawyer in Clearwater whose client did not return two diamond rings in a divorce case; others who mishandled immigration cases, misappropriated money or owe clients money. ...more

July 29, 2008

Boy band architect Lou Pearlman has been transferred to a federal penitentiary in southeast Atlanta to serve his 25-year prison sentence. ...more

July 25, 2008

Former boy band creator Lou Pearlman has finally been transferred to a federal penitentiary to serve his 25-year prison sentence. ...more

July 24, 2008

The ex-wife of former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Ricky Reynolds pleaded guilty this morning to one count of criminal mischief in a deal with prosecutors. ...more

July 21, 2008

Lou Pearlman and federal authorities have finally agreed on how much the former boy-band promoter swindled from banks and investors in a decades-long scam: a staggering $300 million. ...more

July 17, 2008

A former analyst for a St. Petersburg check authorizing company was sentenced Thursday to four years and nine months in federal prison for stealing more than 8.4 million consumer records that were sold to direct marketers. ...more

July 11, 2008