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The article reports that Princeton Review Inc. has been fined up to 10 million dollars for forgery of attendance records for its tutoring services in New York. It notes that Princeton Review has resorted to such crime due to pressure from supervisors to meet quotas. It mentions that the firm has been providing services to public school students who struggle with their academic performance.

Officials investigating the disappearance of a Long Island man who seemed to try to fake his own death last week said on Saturday that he had returned to New York, but that they had not decided whether to charge him with a crime. The man, Raymond Roth, 47, disappeared in the waters off Jones Beach on July 28, prompting an extensive police search, involving a helicopter and boats, that turned up nothing. His wife, Evana Roth, said on Friday that she had found e-mails implicating Mr. Roth in the staging of his death and that she feared for her safety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A bookkeeper in the office of the Brooklyn public administrator stole more than $2.6 million from the estates of people who died without wills over a period of three years, prosecutors charged on Friday. The bookkeeper, Richard Paul, wrote forged checks from seven estates, diverting money that was supposed to be deposited in the city treasury to himself and three co-conspirators, who were also charged, according to criminal complaints in the case and a prosecutor's remarks in court. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Years before federal authorities opened their forgery inquiry into a cache of Modernist paintings handled by high-end art dealers, the Knoedler Gallery agreed to refund $2 million to a client who had questioned the authenticity of one of the works, according to court testimony this week. Two former Knoedler employees testified about the refund for a work attributed to Jackson Pollock during hearings in Manhattan as part of a federal lawsuit brought by a London collector, Pierre Lagrange, who bought another disputed Pollock paintings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In one of the least welcome signs of the success that the musical ''The Book of Mormon'' is enjoying on Broadway, representatives said on Monday that counterfeit tickets had been sold to and presented by theatergoers on at least five different occasions in recent weeks. Adam Miller, the company manager for ''The Book of Mormon,'' said in a telephone interview that counterfeit tickets were first identified at the Eugene O'Neill Theater about two weeks ago; a group entered with eight tickets for orchestra seats, but when each ticket was scanned by an usher it came up as an invalid seat in the theater's mezzanine. Mr. Miller said similar incidents occurred as recently as the show's Friday and Saturday matinee performances, and each time, the fraudulent tickets showed the same mezzanine seat when they were scanned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two businessmen have been indicted on charges of falsifying business records as part of a multimillion-dollar check-cashing scheme that was uncovered after the deaths of two firefighters in the former Deutsche Bank building two years ago, Manhattan prosecutors said on Tuesday. Each man -- Riad Khalil, 46, of Brooklyn, and Neil Goldstein, 53, of Marlboro, N.J. -- was indicted on 122 counts of falsifying business records and 64 counts of failing to file currency transaction reports, District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau announced at a news conference. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers news briefs in Amsterdam, New York. The Supreme Court decides to allow the conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal to stand and a meeting was organized to defend the rights of death row inmates. Enrique Castillo, also known as Enrique Fernandez was indicted on one count of attempted grand larceny and one for criminal possession of forged instrument. Nana Camille Yarbrough, a cultural activists, poet and storyteller will appear in an interactive discussion on African American families.

The article reports on the arrest and indictment of real-estate investor Adam Hochfelder by Manhattan, New York City district attorney Robert Morgenthau. The investor was charged with grand larceny, forgery and falsifying business records, among others. Hochfelder, who was the former chairman and chief executive of Max Capital Management Corp., defaulted on loans and became the subject of lawsuits by former business associates and family members.

The article reports that Marco Rivero, owner of an Italian restaurant, has filed theft charges against his 30-year-old chef Jason Neroni at a police station for forging two checks to himself from the restaurant in New York. Neroni charged with third-degree petit larceny and forgery. The case will be presented before the criminal court on May 14, 2007.

Discusses the popularity of fake IDs among American youth. Efforts of police and bar owners to battle against false identification cards; Technological methods used in identifying counterfeit IDs; How students acquire fake IDs; Why the nation's fixation with security cards and ID systems has been a boon for manufacturers of fake IDs; Sales of IDs offshore and online; Penalties for possessing and making fake IDs; Comments of Sergeant William Planeta, who runs the New York Police Department's document fraud squad.

Focuses on con artist Mark Edwards, who took money from business owners in New York City after promising to produce publicity campaigns that would bring them success in business. Sting operation orchestrated by business owner Elliott Bey, one of Edwards' targets; Report that Edwards was arraigned on forgery and fraud charges; Employment of Edwards with the TGE Marketing Company; Report that Edwards swindled over a dozen business owners, including Sergio Mormile and David Silver.

Reports that Joan E. Mahon-Powell, high-ranking school official in the New York City public school system, was arrested on two felony counts, charging her of forging her credentials throughout her career. Statement by investigators that she was never even certified as a teacher; Plea of guilty to reduced charges of presenting a false instrument; Details of her climb through the ranks from a substitute teacher in the late 1970's to school superintendent to chief of staff to Chancellor Harold O. Levy.

Profiles Ronald A. Roberts, also known as Sachem Golden Eagle of the Western Mohegans, who has plead guilty to United States federal charges of submitting false documents and perjury. Report that Roberts tried to convince New York state that he was the descendant of a Mohegan chief and the leader of a lost tribe of American Indians; Desire of Roberts to run a casino; Statement that Roberts submitted a false genealogy to the federal government; Law that allows legitimate Indian nations to operate casinos.

Reports on the charges filed against the couple Richard and Eleanor Rinaldi for allegedly forging documents in their asbestos removal business in Westchester County, New York as of September 13, 2002.

Reports on the illegal manufacturing of identification in New York City. Creation of Governor George Pataki on a task force for forged identification operation; Arrest of phony identification traffickers; Efforts of Pataki on the seriousness of the forgery problem.

Reports that two bus drivers and a bus dispatcher in New York City, New York have been accused by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Inspector General office submitting forged doctors' notes between 1989 and 1991. How the notes were detected as forgeries; Disciplinary action that will be taken against Robert Filan, Richard Bermudez, the bus drivers and dispatcher, George Figueroa.

Reports that New York City detective Roberto Neves was arrested on December 26, 1995 on a forgery charge. Details on forgery of Neves' supervisor's signature; Neves arraignment.