The Vatican took a step on Wednesday to show greater financial transparency by publishing the first report from its financial watchdog agency and announcing new regulations to fight money laundering and ... Read more
CARACAS, Venezuela — There may be no honor among thieves, but there certainly is no shortage of chutzpah. First came the hefty kickbacks that employees at a Miami brokerage office pledged to ... Read more
According to the air bill slapped on the crate that arrived at Kennedy International Airport from London, an unnamed painting worth $100 was inside. Only later did federal investigators discover that it was by ... Read more
A brother of two top leaders of one of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico was convicted Thursday of buying racehorses to hide illegal drug profits. A federal jury in Austin found José ... Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States accused two Lebanese money exchange houses on Tuesday of helping launder funds for an international drug trafficking ring and of financing the Lebanese militant ... Read more
Thirteen female correctional officers, seven inmates and five others with gang ties have been charged with plotting to smuggle drugs, cellphones and other contraband into Baltimore’s jail and other ... Read more
The United States blacklisted an affluent Iranian business executive and what it described as his multibillion-dollar money laundering network on Thursday, accusing them of selling oil for Iran in violation of ... Read more
The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida was sentenced Wednesday to one and a half years in prison for stealing $125,000 in party funds. The former official, Jim Greer, 50, was sentenced ... Read more
PARIS — Just hours after an announcement that he would be investigated on charges of tax fraud and money laundering, Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac resigned from the French government on ... Read more
VATICAN CITY — Negotiations over the Vatican’s adherence to international banking standards were reaching a delicate point. During a lunch, a European official later recalled, discussion turned to ... Read more