Ill-Gotten Gains

By harshly rating films with sexual content, the MPAA curried favor with conservatives in Congress who rewarded them by passing intellectual property laws that have added billions of dollars to film studios coffers.

Financial corporations can earn money without creating real economic value. This problem is much larger than perfidy of any one bank.

In fact, Charlie filed a lawsuit against Capri – whose real name is Christina Walsh - alleging extortion among other things.

Raffaello Follieri allegedly posed as a Vatican representative to fleece wealthy investors that sought to buy and redevelop Roman Catholic Church property.

The 1978 Lufthansa heist was planned by the infamous Jimmy Burke -- $5.8 million in untraceable cash, stored in cardboard boxes in a vault at NY's Kennedy Airport, was stolen.

The vast majority of Chinese giant salamanders being traded are from the wild. Their harvesting is not regulated and it is a lucrative option for hunters.

Even rich folks are pawning their stuff these days and 'collateral lenders' are cashing in.

Seventy-three people have been charged over attempts to defraud the country's medical insurance system -- setting up fake clinics using stolen identities to make false claims for treatment.

The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue.

CVS unwittingly supplied large amounts of pseudoephedrine to traffickers in Southern California. Federal law limits how much pseudoephedrine a person can buy in a day.