2015 Event Swiss criminal investigators charge FIFA President Sepp Blatter with suspected fraud; 14 FIFA officials have already been arrested in the corruption scandal, but Blatter has stated that he has no knowledge of or involvement in wrongdoing 2014 Event Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah have agreed to share power in a unity government, with Ghani as president and Abdullah as chief executive officer of Afghanistan; both men claimed fraud after the election, prompting a U.N.-monitored recount 2014 Event Bank of America must pay $1.3 billion in a civil lawsuit over fraud committed by lending unit Countrywide Financial, which operated a scheme nicknamed 'Hustle' that resulted in large numbers of unsubstantiated mortgages during 2007-2008 2014 Event Afghan presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani agree to an election vote recount to settle allegations of fraud after Ghani was declared the winner; the process could take weeks, requiring the inauguration ceremony to be postponed 2014 Event The European Banking Authority cautions banks against accepting or trading in virtual currencies such as Bitcoin until such transactions can be regulated by the European Commission; regulators cited the risk of fraud and money laundering 2014 Event Credit Suisse has pled guilty to criminal charges of assisting U.S. customers in tax fraud and evasion; however, the Swiss government will not allow the bank to cooperate with the U.S. government's request for the names of those customers 2013 Event Ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expelled from parliament due to his tax fraud conviction 2013 Event Individuals from the Imperial Petroleum company in Indianapolis, Indiana, face charges for the largest tax and securities fraud scheme in Indiana history 2012 Event Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a sentence of four years for fiscal fraud 2011 Event Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling loses his appeal against his conviction for fraud in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 2010 Event The 46-year old son of convicted fraud king Bernard Madoff kills himself in a Manhattan apartment 1997 Event Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud and time served 1997 Event Former rep Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud 1992 Event Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel 1991 Event NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud 1991 Event Charles Keating, Jr. (Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud), found guilty 1989 Event Reverend Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud 1989 Event Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud 1989 Event U.K. physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud" 1988 Event Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud 1988 Event North Carolina federal grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud and conspiracy 1988 Event Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment 1988 Event Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case 1986 Event Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud 1984 Event Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud 1982 Event Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud 1964 Event Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy 1958 Death Warner Fabian, S Adams, U.S. author (Great American Fraud), dies at 87 1950 Event Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud 1893 Event Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud
