A Midtown con man faces a possible life sentence after being convicted of attempted armed robbery for pulling a carpet knife on a Swedish Navy official after a botched scam. Louis Parson was found guilty of his fourth violent offense for taking out the blade after trying the "broken bottle scam" (which is similar to the "broken glasses scam"). He faces between 16 years and life behind bars. more ›

A Jackson Heights woman has been ordered to pay $3 million in penalties and restitution for convincing illegal immigrants to give her money in exchange for helping them become citizens, then doing nothing on their behalf. The State Supreme Court ruling comes after Attorney General, and still undeclared gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Cuomo filed a lawsuit against Miriam Mercedes Hernandez for swindling undocumented immigrants out of up to $15,000 each in Green Card and citizenship scams. more ›

A storefront pastor has been sentenced to two to six years in prison after swindling more than 100 immigrants with promises of U.S. visas and green cards. Gregorio Gonzalez, 57, was sentenced on Tuesday after pleading guilty to collecting more than $840,000, mainly from Ecuadorian immigrants who visited him at the Iglesia Pentecostal Roca de Salvacion Eterna in Corona, according to 1010WINS. "He took our money," 27-year-old office cleaner Viviana Ordonez told the Daily News. "He took our trust in him. We right now have nothing. We don't have hope. We want justice." After Gonzalez gets out of prison, he will face deportation proceedings. more ›

From running a law firm that employed two hundred lawyers to facing life behind bars: Marc Dreier appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty to "money laundering, conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud." His admission read in part, "I engineered a scheme to issue and sell fictitious promissory notes purportedly issued by companies in the United States and Canada," and he noted that the scheme took place between 2004 and 2008. more ›

Hey, it's a twist on the Nigerian scam! The U.S. Department of Justice said that a Nigerian national apparently successfully convinced Citibank to transfer money—over $27 million— from the National Bank of Ethiopia into accounts controlled by him and his associates. Luckily, the many of receiving accounts were unable to accept the transfers and the banks alerted Citibank. more ›

The Post spoke to a former employee of the Upper West Side resident accused of swindling Fortune 500 companies out of millions. The Department of Justice claims that Dina Wein-Reis and others would buy products, from contact lens and snacks to diabetes equipment and laundry detergent, at lower prices, claiming they'd be given out as promotions but actually sold them at higher prices to retailers like Walgreen's--raking in millions. The former employee said, "She treated people like crap, so she ended up going through staff very quickly,. She was very nasty to people and slow to pay... She was a good businesswoman, but she really just used her good looks to swindle people. She was very shrewd." Wein-Reis is being held without bail; the DOJ has asked that her and husband's West 75th Street and Riverside Drive mansion, full of millions of dollars worth of art, be seized. more ›

It's one thing to believe the the supernatural. It's another to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to a storefront psychic. But that's what happened to a stock trader when he came into contact with Tammy Mitchell, who ran a fortune telling business in Midtown. more ›