The ex-girlfriend of swindler Samuel Israel III has admitted in a New York court that she tried to mail him $300 while he was in jail. Defense attorney Richard Strassberg says Debra Ryan of Armonk, N.Y., pleaded guilty Thursday to introducing contraband into a ...

A hedge-fund swindler who faked his own death in an effort to skip out on a 20-year prison term was sentenced Wednesday to two extra years. Federal Judge Kenneth Karas said Samuel Israel III was "thumbing his nose at the system" when he staged a suicide and jumped bail last year rather than do time for taking hundreds of millions ...

WHITE PLAINS, New York (Reuters) - Hedge fund swindler Samuel Israel was ordered to serve two more years behind bars on Wednesday for a wild escapade in which he faked his own death in an attempt to avoid a 20-year prison sentence. Israel's vanishing act in June 2008 sparked an intense manhunt, after his abandoned car was found on a ...