A Rotorua man has admitted benefit fraud which lasted more than 15 years.

A woman living in the country's most valuable state house cheated WINZ out of more than $88,000 by hiding her relationship for six years.

One of the biggest civil court actions in New Zealand legal history has been filed against former directors of the failed finance company Bridgecorp.

Jacqui Bradley was sentenced to seven years five months in jail today for a "classic Ponzi-scheme" that abused her victims' trust and left them "completely devastated".

Fraudster Jacqui Bradley - who swindled 28 investors out of around $15.5 million dollars - has been sentenced to seven years and five months in jail.

A man caught posing as a medical student for two years went to "great lengths" to hide what he was doing from his classmates, staff and his family.

Would-be trainee doctor attended lectures, talked to patients and could access dissection labs - for two years.

A woman stole several thousand dollars from her elderly neighbour to play the pokie machines after befriending her.

An African drug dealer who entered a sham marriage within weeks of arriving in New Zealand to help him get residency is to be deported.

A nurse whose short skirts and long fingernails raised eyebrows where she worked has been struck off for forging her practising certificate.

Jailed National Finance boss Trevor Allan Ludlow is appealing his sentence on the grounds it was "manifestly excessive" but has been denied bail to prepare for the hearing.

If the collapse of NZ's finance companies left a stench wafting through the business community, Adam Feeley says the jailing of dishonest directors has sent a chill blowing through boardrooms.

Tenants of New Zealand's most expensive state house - with sweeping views over Auckland's harbour - have been ordered out after one was convicted of benefit fraud.

A woman who admitted falsely claiming more than $90,000 in benefits said she wanted security for her children.