A pharmaceutical trader, as per the ACB, Rangila is a key conspirator in the case pertaining to medical procurement fraud ...

Crumbling infrastructure, systemic operational paralysis, and brazen extortion schemes have pushed Johannesburg’s electricity ...

Professional squatters allegedly use forged deeds, fake leases and identity theft to hijack Los Angeles homes, prompting ...

A California man will spend six years in federal prison for his role in a brazen daylight abduction and extortion scheme that targeted his business partner in Upstate New York. Lewis Li, 36, of ...

A Lucchese gangster who sent one of his shakedown victims an online bio with his mob bonafides told a judge Tuesday that it’s not his fault he has such a scary reputation. Speaking at his Brooklyn ...

As America’s auto debt nears $1.7 trillion, repossessions are reaching levels not seen since the Great Recession. Inside an industry at the front line of the country’s affordability crisis.

(CBS) — A New Jersey council member, who previously admitted to several murders as a mob enforcer, was arrested for extortion amid other charges on Friday. John Alite, 63, a councilman in Englishtown, ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

Last month China’s authorities revealed that three men in Zhejiang, an eastern province, had been sentenced for a curious crime known as “news extortion”. They had dug up (or in many cases made up) ...