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Financial advisors commit investment fraud every year. Here are the red flags consumers should watch for before and during engagement with a money manager.

President Donald Trump’s first national security advisor, Michael Flynn, has tried to undo his guilty plea for more than a year.

Ghislaine Maxwell is in quarantine in jail after possible exposure to a staffer with COVID-19. She is charged with abetting sex crimes by Jeffrey Epstein.

Ghislaine Maxwell tested negative for Covid-19. She is being held in jail on charges of abetting Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls.

Your Social Security number is the No. 1 piece of data fraudsters want. These are the scams you and your loved ones don’t want to fall for.

Two people died and multiple others were “seriously wounded” in a stabbing Sunday night at a church in California, officials said.

Ken Kurson, while editor of Jared Kushner’s paper, advised then-candidate Donald Trump on a speech and sat in the Trump family box at the 2016 GOP convention.

Cybersecurity experts warn sophisticated hacking attacks by Russian and Chinese actors are targeting the Democratic and Republican campaigns gearing up for the 2020 presidential election.

After allegations of forced hysterectomies and other medical practices at a Georgia immigrant detention facility, a doctor is now at the center of a criminal investigation. NBCLX talked to attorney David Dreyer, who represents five of the detainees who allegedly had unnecessary gynecological surgeries, to discuss the systemic problems that allowed this to happen and what happens next.

Law enforcement officials say popular money transfer apps have become portals for criminals to launder money illegally obtained from Covid-19 relief programs.

Quawan “Bobby” Charles went missing from his home in Louisiana on Oct. 30 and was found dead in a cane field four days later with injuries so brutal that they drew comparisons to the infamous murder of Emmett Till. An attorney representing Charles’ family, Chase Trichell, joined LX News to discuss the ongoing investigation and why they are so frustrated...

Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Presidents Trump and Clinton, got a no-prosecution deal from federal authorities in 2007 for alleged sex crimes.

A Leavenworth, Kansas man is in custody after allegedly killing his two sons and abducting his two young daughters. KSHB’s Rae Daniel reports.

Denver’s STAR pilot program recognizes that a mental health worker and a paramedic may be better suited to respond to some 911 calls than police.

Just days before he was supposed to start playing professional basketball overseas, Aswad Thomas was shot twice in his back, ending his career. Today, he is managing director of Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, and working to mobilize other crime victims to use their votes this November to push for services like trauma recovery centers and criminal justice reforms.

President Trump announced a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities “plagued” by violent crime. But many who fear to call the cops during these times ask, does this initiative work? Dominique Johnson, the Senior Director of Community Engagement at the Center for Policing Equity joins LX News to break down her findings on city crimes and if this...

On Monday, all of America reeled at the sight of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile being pillaged by roaming bands of thieves, who seemed to move with abandon through the city’s downtown. Just one week prior, news networks spread similar images of a shootout in front of high-end boutiques on Oak Street. To downtown residents like Gary Hebding, it was no...

In recent months, many downtown residents say they’ve seen an increase in crime. Phil Rogers with NBC 5 Investigates took a closer look and learned about the troubling trend.

A DNA match has solved the strangulation murder of a teenager in southeast Alaska, a case that was cold for 24 years and saw another man acquitted of the crime after confessing, Alaska State Troopers said Tuesday. DNA obtained from Steve Branch, 66, of Austin, Arkansas, at an autopsy matched that of a sample left at the scene where Jessica…

“Park Predators” is a new podcast that takes a closer look at true crime cases from national parks in Canada and the U.S. Investigative journalist and host Delia D’Ambra joined LX News for #TrueCrimeTuesday to discuss the new series.