Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Attorney General Ken Paxton’s long-delayed trial on securities fraud charges has been set for April 15. State District Judge Andrea Beall scheduled the trial during a hearing Monday morning in Houston. Paxton attended […]

Rep. George Santos is a co-sponsor of the bill, which would cut funding to crack down on unemployment fraud.

As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushes to expand anti-LGBTQ policies, the lawmaker behind key anti-LGBTQ legislation is facing decades behind bars for wire fraud and money laundering.

Republican state Rep. Joe Harding was charged with allegedly trying to defraud the government.

‘This investigation revealed that Donald Trump engaged in years of illegal conduct to inflate his net worth, to deceive banks and the people of the great state of New York,’ state Attorney General Letitia James said at a news conference.

As more employers impose vaccine mandates, a legal showdown over religious exemptions could be brewing, experts say.

In earlier months of the pandemic, when masks were in short supply, fraudsters starting popped up.