51% attacks are quite possibly wire fraud so I would refrain from bragging about them. More accurately, trying to double spend the coins is wire fraud.
Not if you have the consent of the counter-parties (or are the counter-parties.) It might be against some other law to manipulate the price like that, though.
The person they are swindling can go through their own authorities, and if the authorities in the criminal's country are alerted to his activities, they can go after them as well.
Theft and fraud don't take on different meanings just because the currency is digital.