The sale of the Eiffel Tower was perhaps the mostunbelievablefraud in the recorded history. The man behind this fraud was Victor Lustig, who was known as ‘the man who sold the Eiffel Tower.’ He was born in Bohemia in 1890 and his first fraud was to sell a money printing machine,...
Some famous honest services fraud cases
Bernie Madoff orchestrated the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, defrauding thousands of investors out of tens of billions of dollars over several decades. His fund, which promised unusually steady and high returns, was nothing but a facade for a massive fraud operation. The Wizard of Lies...
Some of the biggest accounting scandals in history are nowadays among the least known, despite the frauds having led to new accounting industry regulations and in some cases, new laws. 4. Republic of Poyais The Poyais fraud was a major scandal in the 1800s. This fraud was certainly the mo...
James Burke, also known as Jimmy the Gent, and The Irishman (July 5, 1931 – April 13, 1996), was an Irish American gangster and Lucchese crime family associate who is believed to have organized the 1978 Lufthansa heist, at the time the most lucrative cash theft in American history, and...
While opioid painkillers have made life easier for a lot of patients dealing with chronic pain, the overreliance on these drugs, and the subsequentopioid crisis, makes this innovation one of the most harmful in the history of the world. ...
Robbing banks,stealingpaintings, embezzling millions of dollars; these notorious thieves have gone down in history for their criminal escapades and illicit activities. But as you will note in most cases, crime never pays. That said, their stories are still fodder for newspaper journalists, authors,...
Throughout the years many people have perpetrated hoaxes – often for publicity, and sometimes just for the hell of it. Of all the hoaxes through history, the ten in this list are the most famous. In at least two cases (the Book of Mormon, and the Priory of Sion) millions of people ...
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After Earhart disappeared in 1937, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard launched the largest and most expensive air and sea search in American history to find her. Military ships scoured the ocean at a cost of $250,000 per day, but no conclusive evidence has ever been found. ...