According to the state the Mississippi, guess who's stiffing victims of the Gulf oil spill? The state's Attorney General wrote yesterday that thanks to "sweeping deficiencies and violations of law," BP is allegedly "underpaying" legitimate claims. Surprised? [Bloomberg]

Vitaly Borker, the eyeglass-selling prick profiled in the Times, was arrested by the feds for fraud and cyberstalking.

Canadian cancer scam artist Ashley Kirilow has been charged with seven counts of fraud for raising $20,000 for her fake cancer charity, and nabbing free trips to Disneyland with her elaborate cancer lie.

With the election only days away, a few single-minded patriots have decided to take on the biggest problem bedeviling our political system: election fraud! Yes, a problem so huge, only 95 people were charged with it between 2002 and 2005.

Larry Wilcox — better known as Ponch's sidekick Jon from the 70's-80's cop show CHiPs — was caught in a sting operation by FBI agents and the Securities and Exchange Commission allegedly seeking kickbacks in exchange for penny-stock manipulation.

A 54-year-old Parisian is either a modern Casanova, a fraud, or the French incarnation of the "anchor baby" bogeyman. He claims to have fathered 55 children, each with a different foreign-born, welfare-collecting mother. Expect this story on Fox News tonight.

Ponzi schemer to the stars Ken Starr pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, money laundering, and investment advisor fraud; his plea deal will put him behind bars for10-12 years. His pole-dancing wife was "notably absent" from the courtroom. [image via]

Former Democratic party fundraiser Hassan Nemazee, who raised large sums for both the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama presidential campaigns, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraudulently acquiring $292 million in loans from three banks.

Goldman Sachs is trying its own brand of top kill: The New York Times and Wall Street Journal report the investment bank plans to settle with the SEC for a lesser offense, so it doesn't have to admit to fraud.

Prosecutors say Adam Wheeler committed larceny and identity fraud, stealing $45,000 in Harvard scholarship money. Peers recall a quiet overachiever with a knack for grandiose self-description and a plan to become a lawyer—or so he told them.

Someone hit the "panic" button beside Larry Summers' desk—the Ivory Tower has been breached! A 23-year-old former Harvard student, Adam Wheeler, stands accused of lying in his Harvard, Fulbright, and Rhodes applications, and now faces 20 criminal charges.

Adedamola Olatunji lived in a small apartment on the South Side of Chicago. Where he pretended to be Ben Stiller, David Duchovny, Paul Haggis, Paul Schrader and Noah Baumbach and used their credit cards for iTunes and online dating.

As any good drug mule/terrorist knows, Puerto Rican birth certificates are perfect for obtaining fraudulent U.S. passports. What's the government solution? Render all Puerto Ricans retroactively nonexistent by invalidating all birth certificates on July 1, 2010. This will go well.

An investment firm just got busted for defrauding clients of $120 million—some of which was funneled into a "sexually-oriented charter cruise venture." What is a "sexually-oriented charter cruise venture"? And does it have an unlimited soda plan?

Emma Charlton pretended she had terminal cancer and was the editor of Vogue. Before that, she used the name Golightly and operated a gold-digging scam. Now, she will go to jail for defrauding her fiance and grandmother, among others.

A 24-year-old in a motel room in Texas used the internets and his squeaky voice to e-and-phone date men posing as model Bree Condon. Police found him with an iPhone and a small dog that were gifts from his suitors.

Wesleyan, an annoying school populated by rapping sex magazine columnists, is suing its former C.I.O. for illegally using his post at the school to help his fledgling hedge fund. Why was Wesleyan employing a square in the first place? [Dealbook]

Math is hard and taxes are Satan's invoices, which is why Fox News' Clayton Morris calls it an "honest mistake" to claim $10 in income when you made $1,000,000: Who can figure those "stinkin' tax forms" out anyway?

They say bickering intensifies as stakes diminish; this helps explain the enmity engulfing the U.S. Chess Federation. A struggle over board seats turned into a flurry of lawsuits, all rooted in the following obscene and allegedly faked internet postings.

A Senate panel has issued subpoenas to Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and others, to investigate whether or not company executives knew in advance that the economy-destroying mortgage-related securities they created were complete crap.