New York is suing Donald Trump for $40 million because SPOILER ALERT: his Trump University is complete and total bullshit.

A federal judge ruled this week that the allegedly corrupt, cousin-dating, cocaine-smuggling, big-spending playboy son of the ruler of Equatorial Guinea may not have his Michael Jackson "Bad Tour" glove back from the US government just yet.

A body armor mogul who threw his daughter a $10 million bat mitzvah with performances from 50 Cent, Tom Petty, and Aerosmith, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for his role in swindling $200 million from his company and its investors.

When Amy Wellman got yet another call from an advance fee scammer asking her for a bank account number in order to route a large sum of money with no strings attached she didn't get mad, she got out her camera and recorded herself messing with the telemarketer's mind.

Professional reality star/amateur table flipper Teresa Giudice and her walking choad of a husband, Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, have been indicted on fraud and tax charges.

A New York woman has been arrested for using fraudulent hospital records to pose as a Boston Marathon bombing victim and collect $480,000 from a fund for the real victims.

The trial of Fabrice "Fabulous Fab" Tourre — a former Goldman Sachs trader who is accused of intentionally selling bad investments and making up terrible nicknames for himself — begins tomorrow.

An IRS contractor who has been using a minor, possibly non-existent injury from his prep school days 27 years ago to secure government contracts for his company was publicly shamed by Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) in such a magnificent way that it almost made his fraud worthwhile.

After a half-day filibuster that was controversially halted by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Republicans in the Texas Senate scrambled to quickly pass the equally controversial abortion bill SB5, but were halted themselves by two hours of motions and parliamentary inquiries from Democrats trying to run out the clock on Gov. Rick Perry's special session.

George Orwell once said that "a humanitarian is always a hypocrite." In the case of Jeremy Johnson, the government is also trying him as a criminal.

Psychic medium to the Stars Derek Acorah has made quite a career for himself being a glorified Ouija board and OK! magazine's go-to prognosticator of vague celebrity tattle.

A New York City woman pleaded guilty to fraud today for using Facebook and phone calls to solicit money for a "funeral fund" for her nephew, who was killed in last year's Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. No such nephew ever existed.

A North Carolina postal carrier who claimed she was unable to lift mail trays as a result of a 2004 on-the-job injury pleaded guilty to worker's comp fraud after Federal investigator proved she was lying. Exhibit A: Her 2009 appearance on The Price is Right.

In her new book, Primates of Park Avenue, social anthropologist Dr. Wednesday Martin claims to expose a troubling trend: "Upper crust" moms using a "black market" connection to hire handicapped tour guides to walk them through Disney World so they can take advantage of the line-skipping auxiliary entrances for disabled patrons.

It's the age-old Nigerian folktale. A long, long time ago, a prince lost his way. Riches and wealth seized by an evil government, the prince wandered the Bay Area, searching for an ordinary citizen with a heart of gold to break the curse. All it would take, the prince told the goodhearted citizen, was a little cash infusion that would break the government's evil spell, releasing millions of dollars for the prince to share with his savior.

"Your Jewish friend" Sarah Silverman is still on her political kick, this time setting her sights (literally) on voter ID laws and their potential to disenfranchise millions of voters — especially those likely to vote for the incumbent.

Scott Thompson had only been Yahoo's CEO for four months, and now he's out. All because his résumé embellished his college degree.

Mystery solved, sort of: It seems reasonably clear to me that Daniel Kaufman, a.k.a., Dan Kay, a.k.a. Dan Katze, a.k.a. the Busted Chef, a.k.a. the Montauk Grifter, never actually worked as a producer on Hell's Kitchen, as he repeatedly claimed to the people he conned. But he definitely managed to convince several of the show's former contestants that he worked there, which is some fairly acrobatic grifting.

Yesterday, we brought you the tale of Daniel Kaufman, a.k.a. Dan Kay, a.k.a. Dan Katze, the preternaturally prolific conman who told his victims, among many other things, that he was a world-class chef and a producer on Hell's Kitchen and Chopped—even though he can't cook. Since then, we've learned that he probably did manage to grift his way onto Hell's Kitchen. Also: We've gotten tons of emails from people who have crossed Dan's path, which we've published below.

He is Dan Kaufman, Dan Kay, Dan Katze. He is a celebrity chef, an internet entrepreneur, a television producer. He has worked for Apple, Google, AOL, the Rainbow Room. He hangs out with Steve Case, Gordon Ramsey, Tim Armstrong. He's a world-class surfer, a AAA baseball legend, the founder of a seminal punk band. He's one of the more persistent and obsessive grifters to ply the streets of New York City—not to mention online dating sites—in recent decades.