Roger McClay will escape a jail term after admitting a $25,000 double-dipping rort of cash-strapped charities and the public purse, but he will no longer be able to fly on the taxpayer.

Former Govt Minister Roger McClay has admitted a $25,000 double-dipping rort of cash-strapped charities and taxpayer money.

The former wife of a police officer was today jailed for four years for offending that was described in court as a "huge web of deceit".

A Wellington man accused of duping at least 30 New Zealanders out of millions of dollars appears to have got away with it.

Dozens of people who invested with an Auckland couple have been told they are unlikely to see their money again.

Cabinet is bracing itself for the possibility that the SFO probe into Allan Hubbard will not find any evidence of complex fraud.

Broadcaster Marcus Lush has become the latest celebrity to fall victim to a Facebook faker.

Financial abuse is the second most common form of maltreatment of older people, and the economic downturn may be aggravating the situation.

Like many other conservatives who end up behind bars, former newspaper publisher Conrad Black has become a convert to the cause of prison reform.

383 couples walked up the aisle to trade rings in a flurry of local passion that, at one point, saw the resident vicar hosting a wedding daily.

He had never completed a property sale in his life - but his audacious attempt to "sell" the Ritz hotel nearly worked.

An Auckland churchgoer who defrauded parishioners of $250,000, saying he needed money for cancer treatment, has been jailed.

Some teenagers earn pocket money flipping burgers at the local fast-food outlet but 16-year-old Marcus Lim had bigger ideas.

An Auckland Grammar pupil who forged scores of driving licences which he sold to other students was told in court to "dedicate your obvious talents towards a legitimate enterprise".