Ex-head of union for newspaper mailroom workers is accused of embezzling more than $200,000

Ex-head of NYC union accused of stealing $200,000

Attorney who reviewed ACORN videos says he found no pattern of intentional, illegal conduct

ACORN prober finds no illegal pattern on videos

Audit of Okla. Land Office finds accounting weaknesses in division where embezzlement occurred

Audit: Accounting weaknesses in Okla. Land Office

Detroit man charged in theft of nearly $1M from city of River Rouge prescription drug plan

Detroit man charged in funds theft from drug plan

State investigators seize computers, records while searching ACORN offices in New Orleans

Computers, records seized at ACORN offices in La.

Prosecutors won’t appeal decision to try ex-French President Chirac in corruption scandal

Prosecutors won’t appeal decision to try Chirac

Prosecutor won’t appeal decision to try ex-French President Chirac in corruption scandal

Prosecutor won’t appeal decision to try Chirac

Former NY Senate GOP leader Bruno, 80, faces trial on federal corruption, influence charges

NY Senate leader Bruno, 80, faces corruption trial

Ex-benefits manager in Missouri gets 27 months in prison for embezzling from union plans

Mo. benefits manager gets prison for embezzlement

Former French President Jacques Chirac ordered to stand trial in alleged corruption scandal

France’s Jacques Chirac ordered to stand trial

PARIS — A French judge ordered former President Jacques Chirac to stand trial on embezzlement charges predating his presidency — a case that could mark the first time a former leader of modern France is forced to defend himself in court.

Court documents: Ex-South Carolina agency official to plead guilty in $5M check cashing scheme

Ex-South Carolina agency official to plead guilty

Costa Rica convicts ex-president of embezzlement from Finnish gov’t loan: 5-year sentence

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A former Costa Rican president was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison Monday for embezzling funds from a Finnish loan intended for medical equipment for public hospitals.

Costa Rican ex-president convicted of embezzlement, sentenced to 5 years in jail

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A Costa Rican court has found former President Rafael Calderon guilty of embezzlement and sentenced him to five years in prison.

Former radio exec who embezzled to buy lottery tickets learns he won before he pleads guilty

GIRARD, Kan. — A former Kansas radio executive who admitted that he embezzled to support an addiction to scratch-off lottery tickets won a $96,000 lottery prize.

Peru ex-president pleads guilty in trial for alleged illegal wiretaps, bribes

LIMA, Peru — Former President Alberto Fujimori, who already faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison, pleaded guilty on Monday to authorizing illegal wiretaps and bribes of politicians, journalists and businessmen.

Jailed former oil tycoon accuses Russian prosecutors of withholding exonerating evidence

MOSCOW — Jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is accusing Russian prosecutors of withholding evidence exonerating him of new charges that could keep him in prison for decades.

Peru’s jailed ex-president on trial for alleged illegal wiretaps, bribes to congressmen, media

LIMA, Peru — Former President Alberto Fujimori, who already faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison, went on trial again Monday, charged with authorizing wiretaps and bribes of politicians, journalists and businessmen.

Lebanon’s own ‘Madoff’ embarrasses militant Hezbollah group after investments vanish

TOURA, Lebanon — A Mideast version of the Bernie Madoff scandal is threatening to tarnish Hezbollah’s reputation in Lebanon for being incorruptible, and the powerful Shiite militant movement faces calls to bail out small investors to keep its position from being undercut.

ACORN names former Mass AG Harshbarger to investigate housing program

WASHINGTON — The community activist group ACORN said Tuesday it has selected a former Massachusetts attorney general to investigate its housing program and other public service projects after employees were caught on video giving advice to a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp and Congress moved to cut off its federal funding.

Obama: Actions in ACORN video ‘inappropriate,’ favors investigation into scandal

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says there should be an investigation into the hidden-camera video involving employees at the activist group ACORN and a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp.

Obama: ACORN video ‘inappropriate,” favors investigation into community group’s activities

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says there should be an investigation into the hidden-camera video involving employees at the activist group ACORN and a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp. The two ACORN workers are seen apparently advising the couple to lie about her profession and launder her earnings to get housing aid.

ACORN grew from local charity to national conglomerate with radio stations, schools

WASHINGTON — Activist group ACORN started in 1970 to help poor people in Arkansas and by decade’s end went national, expanding into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate with a mission so far-flung that schools now bear its name, two radio stations are affiliates and a man its political arm endorsed is the president. Oh yeah — and it’s the unwilling star of a hot Internet video featuring a couple dressed as a hooker and her pimp.

Bolshoi: Big theater, big scandal as investigators say millions embezzled in reconstruction

MOSCOW — Russia’s top investigative body said Monday that millions of dollars have been misspent in the reconstruction of the renowned Bolshoi Theater.

Facing drug, embezzlement and other charges, police chief in Vt. resigns

VERGENNES, Vt. — Officials in Vergennes say the city’s police chief — who’s facing drug, embezzlement and other charges — has resigned.

Taiwan court convicts former first lady on perjury charges, sentences her to 1 year

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The wife and adult children of Taiwan’s former president were convicted of perjury and sentenced to prison for lying to investigators in a high-profile corruption case against the ex-leader.

Prosecutors: Police chief in Vt. gave gun used in suicide to officer in exchange for vitamins

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Prosecutors charging Vergennes Police Chief Michael Lowe with embezzlement say he converted to his own use a pistol that was used in a suicide.

Former Dairylea administrator admits embezzling nearly $600,000 from milk cooperative

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A former Dairylea administrator has admitted stealing nearly $600,000 from the upstate New York milk cooperative over seven years.

South Korean court finds ex-Samsung chairman guilty of breach of trust over bond deal

SEOUL, South Korea — A Seoul court ruled Friday that former Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee was guilty of breach of trust and handed him a suspended prison sentence in another legal blow to the South Korean tycoon.

5 Detroit Public Schools employees charged with embezzlement in ongoing fraud, theft probe

DETROIT — Five Detroit Public Schools employees have been charged with embezzlement in an ongoing investigation into the “culture of corruption” that took hold in the state’s largest district, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

CEO charged with embezzling more than $1 million from failed W.Va. credit union

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal prosecutors say the former chief executive of a failed West Virginia credit union has been charged with embezzling more than $1 million.