Fraud and false statements

A Connecticut man is facing several charges for allegedly defrauding his former employer out of millions of dollars, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has upheld a fraud conviction against Elizabeth Holmes. The disgraced founder of the blood-testing startup Theranos is serving an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors with false claims of what her company could achieve. A three-judge panel said Monday that she hadn’t proved there were legal missteps during her trial. The judges also...

A Brooklyn man is facing a litany of charges for allegedly staging a car crash as part of an insurance fraud scheme by cutting off another driver on the Belt Parkway, forcing the driver to stop and then reversing into the victim’s car — an incident that was caught on the victim’s dash cam and soon became a viral...

A man is facing charges for alleging defrauding his wife’s grandfather out of the deed to his Bronx house while the then 89-year-old was in a nursing home. Frank Blackshear, 45 and of Manhattan, was arraigned earlier this week on second-degree grand larceny, second-degree criminal possession of stolen property, first-degree falsifying business records, second-degree falsifying business records and first-degree offering…