Fraud

Reports by an LGBT activist group in Africa that a gay Somalian teenager was stoned to death last week as a punishment for the crime of homosexuality, and widely reported by LGBT bloggers on Wednesday, may prove to be false. [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. -- A Virginia man has been found guilty of defrauding investors through a project purportedly developing a treatment for the virus that causes AIDS. [ Read more → ]

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. -- A lesbian student at Central Connecticut State University, who claimed she was harassed by an anonymous person who left threatening, anti-gay notes under her door, has been charged with writing the notes herself. [ Read more → ]

CHARLOTTE — State Sen. James Forrester (R-Gaston) has been accused of falsifying some of his credentials and memberships on his resume and campaign materials. His resume padding might also extend even to claims of membership with the Christian Medical and Dental Association. [ Read more → ]

A Montana pastor and anti-gay activist -- who once testified before a Montana legislative committee that homosexuality was a "sin worthy of death" -- has been charged with six felony counts of theft and fraud in a phony investment scheme that bilked a man of a $150,000 inheritance in 2008. [ Read more → ]