2024-10-11

TD Bank pleads guilty, will pay $3 billion in fines

A TD bank stands in Brooklyn on June 04, 2024 in New York City.  Spencer Platt | Getty Images TD Bank pleaded guilty Thursday to multiple criminal charges and agreed to pay a whopping $3 billion in fines and other penalties to the Department of Justice and financial regulators for failing to monitor money laundering by drug traffickers and…

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2024-08-20

Former New York Rep. George Santos pleads guilty to wire fraud

Former New York Rep. George Santos pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Long Island to committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Santos, a Republican, had been set to begin trial next month on a 23-count superseding indictment accused him of wire fraud, identity theft, and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission. The 36-year-old disgraced ex-congressman,…

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