The Illinois Times covered the story of a man who was convicted of defrauding the Illinois EPA out of millions of dollars.  He was sentenced to five years in federal prison in 2015 — but now he’s back in business and has collected more than $1.5 million from the same state agency he defrauded.

Fraud is all around us, from pyramid schemes to spam phone calls. Illinois-based forensic accountant Kelly Richmond Pope writes about why people do it — and how we can better protect ourselves — in her book “Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories and Secrets from the Trillion Dollar Fraud Industry.”

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Fraud is all around us, from pyramid schemes to spam phone calls. Illinois-based forensic accountant Kelly Richmond Pope writes about why people do it — and how we can better protect ourselves — in her book “Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories and Secrets from the Trillion Dollar Fraud Industry.”

In this week's Legal Issues in the News the University of Illinois College of Law's Verity Winship explains the potential decision Lorenzo versus the SEC.

The organic industry is trying to battle fraud, given that it could undermine consumers’ trust and burst its burgeoning $43 billion food market.