Transformers 2 Debuted with 2,000 Sold Out Midnight Shows

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen enjoyed a blockbuster debut on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, according to Fandango. The leading online seller of movie tickets reports that it sold out more than 2,000 midnight and late night/early morning showtimes nationwide, selling more than 8 Transformers tickets per second during peak periods, prior to opening day. [...]

Man Enjoined in $31 Million Offshore Tax-fraud Scheme

A federal court has shut down a Las Vegas promoter of an offshore trust tax scheme. According to papers filed in the case, Reinhold Sommerstedt, a Las Vegas-based promoter, created phony domestic and foreign trusts to move customers’ assets from the United States to offshore banks located in the West Indies. Customers allegedly used phony [...]

53 Doctors, Health Care Executives and Beneficiaries Indicted for $50 Million Medicare Fraud

Fifty-three people have been arrested in Detroit, Miami and Denver today for schemes to submit more than $50 million in false Medicare claims in Detroit, according to Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and FBI Director Robert Mueller. According to the indictments, the defendants participated in schemes [...]