On March 12, 2014, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an official investigation of the nutritional supplement company Herbalife, based on allegations that the company was ...

Andrew Bloomenthal has 20+ years of editorial experience as a financial journalist and as a financial services marketing writer. Hiroko Masuike/Getty Images A pyramid scheme funnels earnings from ...

Five years ago Sunday, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for running the biggest fraudulent scheme in U.S. history. Even now, only a few of his victims have since regained all of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting from Europe, Jeff McMahon covers the environment. The world economy is based on ever-increasing population, said Nobel ...

At the heart of the latest federal indictment of former President Donald Trump is a scheme to use "fake electors" to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The strategy attempted to find a way to ...

The college admissions scheme revealed Tuesday is the largest of its kind ever prosecuted, federal prosecutors said, and features 50 defendants across six states, millions of dollars in illegally ...

The government has begun inviting applications for the Turing scheme, which will enable UK students to study in other countries. The scheme is named after the mathematician Alan Turing, and replaces ...