Uber and Lyft have agreed to pay a combined $328 million to settle accusations from New York Attorney General Letitia James that the ride-sharing giants were “stealing earnings” from thousands of drivers in New York City over several years. The settlement includes $290 million from Uber and $38 million from Lyft, covering back pay, paid sick leave, proper hiring and ...

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged two men, Eliahou Paldiel, 52, of Queens, and Carlos Arturo Suarez Palacios, 54, of Brick Township, NJ, with orchestrating a long-running scheme to pocket phony “surge charge” fees and defraud Uber, its drivers, and its customers. The FBI arrested the pair, who appeared in Brooklyn Federal Court on August 28 for arraignment on ...