Shivanand Maharaj, an IT consultant from New Jersey, was convicted by a federal grand jury July 29 of running a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme in connection with an employee benefit plan. Maharaj39, of Cresskill, New Jersey,  faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The jury found Maharaj guilty of honest services wire fraud, paying kickbacks in connection with an employee benefit plan, and conspiracy, following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl.

A court in India on Wednesday found a local bartender guilty of raping and killing British schoolgirl Scarlett Keeling on a Goa beach in 2008, overturning his earlier acquittal.

An Indian-American hedge fund founder of a Manhattan-based investment firm was convicted July 11 along with a former trader for participation in a scheme to inflate the net asset value (“NAV”) reported to investors for hedge funds managed by his firm by more than $100 million.

A 44-year-old mother of five, who allegedly has been the gang leader of a string of armed home robberies targeting Indian-Americans and other Asians across the United States for years, was found guilty of a nine-count indictment by a federal jury last week for her role in leading several robbery crews.