Fraud
Keith Papini, 36, filed for divorce Wednesday and applied to speed up the process in a second filing made yesterday, DailyMail.com can reveal Two days earlier Sherri Papini, [...]
New York Lt. Gov. Brian A. Benjamin arrested in campaign finance fraud case
Lt. Gov. Brian A. Benjamin surrendered to authorities to face campaign finance fraud-related charges in connection with a past campaign Arrest comes after reports that [...]
Yale School of Medicine administrator stole $40 million ordering thousands of tablet computers in transactions under $10k each: Jamie Petrone-Codrington ran scam over 10 years until anonymous tipster exposed her
Jamie Petrone-Codrington, 42, Monday pled guilty to federal wire fraud and tax charges punishable by up to 23 years in prison The Yale School of Medicine worker stole $40 [...]
Tennessee state senator, Katrina Robinson is handed probation in plea-deal for $600,000 fraud which saw her use federal cash to pay for her wedding, honeymoon and divorce, as well as personal luxury items
Katrina Robinson who was elected to represent a Memphis district in the Tennessee Senate in 2018, was removed from office last month by the Republican-led Senate in a vote [...]
‘Supermom’ Sherri Papini arrested for faking 2016 kidnapping by ‘two Hispanic women’ in California when she was actually with an ex, 600 miles away – Lover identified after his relative’s at-home DNA test matched samples taken from her clothes six years ago
Sherri ‘Supermom’ Papini arrested for staging a 2016 kidnap by ‘two Hispanic women’ when she was actually with an ex-boyfriend Prosecutors charged [...]
Judge grants $3M bail to ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’, denies her husband $5M bail, with couple on trial for ‘laundering $4.5B in stolen Bitcoin – Feds have recovered $3.6B from Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan
Husband jailed, wife freed in alleged laundering of $3.6 billion in hacked bitcoin funds Judge in DC federal court on Monday jailed New Yorker Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, [...]
Michael Avenatti slams former client at embezzlement trial: Defense claims disgraced lawyer made ‘obscure’ porn star Stormy Daniels a ‘household name’ – only for her to turn on him over fees
Michael Avenatti’s defense claims disgraced lawyer made ‘obscure’ porn star Stormy Daniels a ‘household name’ – only for her to turn on [...]
NY Grandma’s quick thinking nails scammers who pretended to be her grandson in police custody, then sent fake bail bondsman to collect $8,000 before cops pounced on him
‘Bored grandma 1, bad guy 0’ muses a Long Island grandma who outsmarted a pack of elder scam artistes, luring them into a police dragnet Identified only a Jean, [...]
Georgia pastor, 55, his wife, 56, arrested after eight disabled people are found ‘imprisoned’ in their illegal group home in the basement of their home, after EMS had to break a window to reach a patient
Curtis Keith Bankston, 55, and his wife Sophia Simm-Bankston, 56, were arrested for false imprisonment after eight residents were found in the basement EMS arrived at their [...]
Disgraced SC attorney Alex Murdaugh is hit by 20 new criminal charges alleging disgraced he embezzled almost $1m from six new victims – Prosecutors allege Murdaugh has swindled clients out of more than $6 million
Alex Murdaugh is facing twenty new criminal charges alleging he stole almost $1m from six new victims The fraud-mired lawyer, 53, is now facing 51 criminal charges alleging [...]
Mom, 48, charged with identity theft after two years living as her stealing ID of her estranged daughter after stealing her ID to secure loans, get a driver’s license, enroll in university and even date guys who believed she was 22
Laura Oglesby adopted the identity of her estranged daughter Lauren Ashleigh Hays in 2016, who was 22 at the time Oglesby applied for a Social Security Card in her [...]
‘Paraplegic’ army vet, 41, accused of ‘scamming more than $1m in benefits by pretending to be crippled’ is caught out by gym selfie
William Rich, 41, has been accused of obtaining $1million after pretending to be paraplegic following a bomb blast in Iraq in 2005 He reportedly was given $800,000 from the [...]
Glamorous Virginia master scammer who fleeced stores of nearly $32M, printing and distributing fake coupons is jailed for 12 years – Lori Ann Talens, 41, blew millions lavish life style and fast cars
Lori Ann Villanueva Talens, 41, was ordered to repay $31.8million to retailers that she defrauded with fake coupons that she sold to a network of shoppers online Talens got [...]
LA Councilman, Ridley-Thomas, and a former USC dean are indicted on federal bribery and fraud charges, after allegations he ‘exchanged lucrative county contracts for his son’s admission to the school’s graduate program’
LA Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas and Flynn 66, and former USC Social Work Dean Marilyn Louise Flynn, 83, have been charged with conspiracy, bribery, and mail fraud charges Th [...]
Massachusetts businessman, David Staveley, 54, who faked his death after he scammed government out of $544,000 in PPP funds is convicted of fraud and sent to prison for 56 months
David Staveley, aka Kurt David Sanborn, aka David Sanborn, faked his own death, left a suicide note, convincing family, feds and some associates that he’d taken his own [...]
Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, ‘covertly stole money from clients and the law office, funneled into a fake bank account for years’, his former firm claims in fresh lawsuit
Alex Murdaugh is accused of years of stealing from clients and business partners, in fresh lawsuit Murdaugh’s former firm claims he funneled stolen money from clients [...]
Alex Murdaugh is issued $20,000 bond by a Hampton County Judge on Thursday – He’s charged with ‘paying hitman to kill him so surviving son would get $10m insurance’ three months after wife and son were found murdered
High profile South Carolina lawyer Richard Alexander ‘Alex’ Murdaugh was issued a $20,000 bond by a Hampton County Judge on Thursday The judge issued a $10,000 [...]
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star, Mo Fayne, is sentenced 17.5 years in prison, after using a $3.7M PPP loan to finance A-List life style including buy $85,000 worth of jewelry, a $136,000 Rolls-Royce and $40,000 in past-due child support
Mo Fayne, 38, has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison and must pay $4,465,865.55 in restitution for his role in a federal bank fraud He pleaded guilty to six counts, [...]
‘We know who killed Alex [Murdaugh’s] wife and son – and it was personal’ – Embattled SC lawyer’s defense attorney makes TV admission, as cops accuse his client of arranging a ‘hit on himself’ in $10M life insurance scheme
Dick Harpootlian the attorney representing South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh in a TV interview said ‘We know who killed Alex’s wife and son – and it was [...]
Embattled South Carolina lawyer, Alex Murdaugh, ‘hired hitman to kill him for $10M life insurance policy that would pay out to son’, but assassin botched roadside shooting – Insurance refuse to pay fraudulent claims
Legal dynasty heir Alex Murdaugh, 53, was changing the tire on his SUV on this rural road in Hampton County, SC, on Sept. 4, when someone shot him from a passing truck [...]
High rolling “skillful Hollwood conman,” Patrick Soria, sentenced to 12 years in prison after he duped more than 2,000 homeowners and buyers out of $7.6M by faking paperwork to divert mortgage payments, sell properties he didn’t own
Patrick Joseph Soria, 35, ran the nationwide mortgage fraud and property theft from 2015 to 2018 Soria was jailed for 12 years after he duped more than 2,000 homeowners and [...]
Senior cop suspended by Nigerian Police after an FBI indictment for receiving cash from jet setting fraudster, Hushpuppi
Usman Baba, Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, has recommended the “immediate suspension” of a decorated Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, pending the [...]
Bitcoin trader brothers, Ameer and Raees Cajee, ‘who fled South Africa with $3.6billion in stolen cryptocurrency, claim portfolio was less than $5M,’ as it’s revealed they bought citizenship to the Pacific Island of Vanuatu months earlier
Ameer and Raees Cajee, founders of a South African cryptocurrency exchange disappeared earlier this year after telling investors they’d been hacked in April The Bitcoin [...]
Alabama sheriff faces corruption charges after calling assistant from a casino and asking her to wire cash from the jailhouse safe – Mike Blakely, 70, is charged with theft and corruption for ‘stealing $29,000 of inmate money’
High profile Alabama sheriff is charged with theft and corruption for ‘stealing over $29,000 of inmate money’ Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely, 70, has been [...]
Dental assistant arrested after burglarizing dental office where she’s employed, Laurel Eich also admitted to extracting 13 teeth from one drugged patient – without a license
Laurel Eich from Reno, Nevada is charged with burglary, grand larceny, conspiracy to commit burglary and preform surgery on another without a license 42-year-old Eich, a [...]
Super mooch Ohio mother, 34, loses custody of her 11-year-old daughter after faking the child’s terminal illness for three years to milk donations – including a trip to Sea World and softball games
Ohio mother, 34, loses custody of her 11-year-old daughter after FAKING the child’s terminal illness for three years to get donations – including a trip to Sea [...]
New Orleans 911 dispatcher, 33, is fired and charged with theft after she ‘refused to return $1.2million mistakenly deposited into her account by Charles Schwab’ – Kelyn Spadoni allegedly used funds to buy a house and car
Kelyn Spadoni, 33, of New Orleans is charged with theft valued over $25,000, bank fraud and illegal transmission of monetary funds Spadoni a former 911 dispatcher is accused [...]
American father and his son who smuggled fugitive ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn out of Japan ‘in a speaker box’ face up to three years in jail as they are charged in Tokyo
American father and son Michael and Peter Taylor have been accused of helping former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn jump bail in Japan The Taylors face a single charge of helping a [...]
Mystery after decomposing foot of business woman accused of defrauding client’s of $25M in Australia washes up on beach, three months after she vanished – Cops think Melissa Caddick may have cut off her own foot while fleeing to throw off investigators
Missing “fraudster” Melissa Caddick may have cut off her own foot to escape police, a top cop has said Caddick, 49, vanished early on Nov 12 last year from [...]
Miserly billionaire Robert Brockman, 79, who is allegedly, ‘behind biggest ever US tax scam’, is faking dementia to avoid trial; Stayed in budget hotels, ate frozen dinners despite being worth $7 billion – Feds
Prosecutors say billionaire Robert Brockman, 79, who is being investigated for tax ivasion, is faking dementia to avoid trial – BFormer employees and associates [...]