Con artist who helped Google probe to be sentenced LAURA CRIMALDI - AP - Sun Oct 23, 12:19PM CDT
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A massive federal investigation that resulted in Google Inc. forfeiting $500 million this year to settle criminal claims over its advertising began with the 2008 arrest of a jet-setting career con artist, who took federal agents in Rhode Island into the underground world of peddling pills online.