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officers are being scrutinised. welcome to newsnight for your weeknightly interviews and insight. let me introduce you to our political panel for this evening — claire ainsley, former head of policy for sir keir starmer, and henry hill, who is the acting editor of the tory website conservative home, plus dal babu, a former chief superintendent in the metropolitan police, and nick is here as always. nick, the betting scandal has widened today — and here at newsnight we have new revelations to bring to our audience this evening. i have been looking at this. well, i have been lookin...

The east bay. And now police are asking who sent a woman to the hospital. Reporter kron fours Terisa Estacio has the details for us includng how the womans friend came to her rescue. A fremont woman is reporter a freemont woman is recovering after she was attacked and robbed outside her home. She was getting out of her car. In front of her home on curtis drive. In fremonts irvington district. This was about 1 40 monday morning. They took computers and a purse some credit cards. Reporter they did not waste any time. They got to using those credit cards. Yes. We saw that the cars were used in tw...

Good afternoon, chairman nelson, Ranking Member collins and members of the committee. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you on behalf of the federal trade commission to discuss the commissions role in combating telemarketing fraud. As we have heard the jish inflicted by fraud is wellknown. The harm is not just economic but emotional as well. To tackle phone fraud, the ftc uses Law Enforcement with close coordinate with federal and international counterparts, education and outreach and an initiative to spur technological innovation to develop tools that help consumers avoid unwanted...

The victim over the telephone that his or her grandchild or another relative is in jail, is in the hospital or stuck in a foreign country and needs money to get out of the predicament. And since the beginning of 2012, the federal trade commission has received more than 30,000 complaints about scammers who claim to be a friend or a Family Member in distress. And its costing americans more than 42 million. Just since the beginning of 12. Now, this doesnt tell the whole story. Since a majority of these crimes go unreported. What we do know is that the ftc reports that imposter scams have double d...

Next a Senate Aging Committee hearing on phone scams targeting seniors. Witnesses talked about a particular scam where someone pretended to be a Family Member or loved one to get a victim to wire them money. Americans lost more than 73 million to phone scams last year. This is about 50 minutes. Good afternoon. Ive asked all of you to join the table instead of two panels, because we have a vote that is being called around 2 20. So i want to take the advantage of going ahead and getting all of your testimony. This hearing is the latest in a series of investigations the committee has conducted on...