Florida doctor pleads guilty in $1 billion fraud (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A Florida doctor pleaded guilty on Wednesday to securities fraud in connection with a life insurance scam that cost 28,000 investors nearly $1 billion, prosecutors said.

Heavy-handed music industry having to eat humble pie (Delta Democrat Times)
It's bad enough there are hordes of computer geeks out there who have nothing better to do than make life miserable for others. They spam, they scam, they spy, they transmit viruses, they hack, they steal passwords and they steal identities.

Taxes on a wrongful death settlement (Bankrate.com)
Dear Tax Talk, Earlier this year my mother, my sister and I received settlements for a wrongful death lawsuit involving the death of my father. The sums are large enough (the total being well into the six figures) to potentially cause us all problems with the IRS.