A Portage County man convicted of helping to cash the Social Security checks of his presumably dead mother-in-law has been sentenced to 54 months in prison, and now his wife might have similar charges reinstated.

Expressing an unwillingness to dramatically expand the scope of offenses that fall under the federal bank fraud statute, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court searched for some type of limiting principle this week during arguments in Loughrin v. U.S., 13-316.

Federal prosecutors in Milwaukee say two Illinois men have been indicted on charges related to credit card theft and fraud.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice has accused a Racine business executive of misusing a loan from the now-defunct state Department of Commerce.

A trial is scheduled to begin for a Portage County man accused of cashing the Social Security checks of his mother-in-law, who hasn't been heard from in about 30 years and is presumed dead.

A drug wholesaler has agreed to pay Wisconsin nearly $14 million to settle allegations of Medicaid fraud.

A Lansing, Mich.-based company that allegedly tried to defraud thousands of corporations settled for $340,000 Wednesday in a case brought by the Wisconsin Department of Justice.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court says a former prison inmate was properly convicted of setting up a phone scam.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Milwaukee spinal surgeon on 13 counts of federal health care fraud.

A proposed rule to drastically increase whistleblower rewards paid for information leading to successful Medicare fraud actions to as high as nearly $10 million was proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services this week.

The lawyer for a Portage County man accused of helping to conceal his mother's death for decades and collecting her Social Security payments has entered not-guilty pleas on his client's behalf.

A former Oshkosh woman has been convicted of two felonies for election fraud and falsification of nomination papers.

A former associate to Gov. Scott Walker will face a jury trial next month on charges that he embezzled about $42,000 from veterans' groups.

A final pre-trial hearing has been postponed for Kevin D. Kavanaugh, a former associate to Gov. Scott Walker who's accused of embezzling about $42,000 from veteran groups.

A judge has ordered a new trial after the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay challenged a civil fraud verdict.

A northeastern Wisconsin judge will start sorting out this week whether a career con man who prided himself on outsmarting authorities set up a diploma mill from behind bars.

A federal grand jury has indicted the president of a Wausau insurance company on 24 counts of fraud.

A jury has been selected to hear a fraud trial against the Green Bay Catholic Diocese.

Jury selection is expected to begin Monday in a fraud trial against the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, after an Outagamie County judge denied the diocese's latest attempt to have the case dismissed.

A federal judge has sentenced a former Beloit official to prison for using city funds to purchase personal items.

A woman who built a mansion and bought a Jaguar while collecting roughly $3 million in taxpayer subsidies from her Milwaukee child care centers has pleaded guilty to fraud, theft and conspiracy.

As tax season ends, tax fraud is in the air.

The state attorney general argued that Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, illegally marketed the drug by telling doctors it was safer and more effective than competitor drugs, downplayed its risks and marketed it for unapproved uses including treatment for the elderly and children.

A Brookfield attorney who pleaded guilty to felony fraud charges received the maximum sentence allowable Wednesday.

Resident aliens committed a deportable offense by filing a false tax return that resulted in the federal government sustaining a loss in revenue in excess of $10,000, the U.S Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-3 decision.

A Brookfield attorney who pled guilty to felony fraud charges on Wednesday could face a stricter sentence structure than normal because of missed court appearances that resulted in his arrest and incarceration.

A Southern California woman who challenged the legal status-quo by filing a small-claims action against Honda won her lawsuit Wednesday when a judge ruled that the automaker misled her about the potential fuel economy of her hybrid car.

Wisconsin law governing fraudulent misrepresentations can fairly be described as charitable. It’s too bad the law doesn’t apply to so-called charities, which are some of the worst fraudsters operating in this state.

Executives have the means to commit and cover up the largest frauds.

A Brookfield attorney facing felony fraud charges wants to surrender his law license in Wisconsin.