Fraud
‘She had consensual sexual intercourse with an individual in Hillsborough County, then she felt guilty about it because of her marital status, and she wanted to get [...]
New York cop is arrested, charged for sending menacing texts to herself, then filing complaint blaming colleagues for messages calling her ‘useless, dumb, a reject’, suggesting she ‘should commit suicide’
New York cop, 36, is arrested for sending bogus harassment texts to herself, then claiming that her colleagues sent them Emily Hirshowitz, a cop employed by the Village of [...]
Utah widow who penned children’s grief book after her husband died, before being arrested for the fatal poisoning of her spouse, is being sued for $13 million by sister-in-law
Utah children’s book author who prosecutors accused of fatally poisoning husband Eric Richins sued for $13 million by one of his sisters Lawsuit claims Kouri Richins stole [...]
Alex Murdaugh faces 480 years in prison, $13m fine, after 22-count indictment in multi-million fraud – stealing his housekeeper’s life insurance and embezzling from his law firm’s clients
Alex Murdaugh is hit with 22-count fraud indictment over $4m scheme to steal his housekeeper’s life insurance and embezzling from his family law firm for 16 years [...]
Mastermind behind iSpoof.cc website jailed for 13 years by UK court – the online operation enabled criminals to impersonate banks to defraud victims across the world of more than $124M
iSpoof website mastermind jailed for 13 years over UK’s biggest fraud sting, that stretched across the US, as well as several other countries Tejay Fletcher, who founded [...]
Pennsylvania woman arrested after hoax – Chloe Stein, 23, faked her own disappearance, sparking two-day search ‘because she was too embarrassed to admit she was not going to graduate this year’
Pennsylvania woman is arrested for staging abduction hoax, sparking two-day search Cops said Chole Stein faked her disappearance because while her friends and classmates were [...]
Alex Murdaugh admits he lied about cause of his housekeeper’s death, to collect insurance payout – his lawyers advise insurers to go after deceased’s estate to recover payout their client embezzled
Jailed one time South Carolina lawyer, Alex Murdaugh admits he lied in insurance claims to collect payout in the ‘accidental death’ of about his housekeeper, [...]
Home ownership swindle – Elderly woman, 78, sues neighbor, 35, for transferring her $350,000 New York home with ‘forged deed, that cost just $10, to become legal owner of the property,’ as imposter claims owner gifted her
Elderly woman, 78, loses her $350,000 New York home after her neighbor’s 35-year-old daughter ‘FORGED deed to become legal owner of the property for just [...]
New York cops scale building to end 8-hour standoff with attempted jumper – Ian Mitchell, broke the window inside an apt within the 72-story condo building and attempted to climb out
Video shows NYPD scale building to end 8-hour standoff with attempted jumper on Wednesday morning The suspect threatened to jump from a 20th-floor window of a Manhattan [...]
Social worker, Kaitlyn Braun, 24, charged with sexual assault, after hiring doulas to help her through multiple pregnancies and stillbirths, ALL fake, lying that ‘she’d been raped and was terminally ill’
Social worker is charged in Canada with sexual assault after hiring doulas to help her through multiple pregnancies and stillbirths that were all fabrication Kaitlyn Braun [...]
Glamour chasing California lawyer, 39, charged with embezzling $10.2M belonging to her firm, in six month period, to finance her ‘extravagant lifestyle’
LA attorney Sara Jacqueline King, is accused of embezzling blowing $10.2M of her law firm’s money, to finance her ‘extravagant lifestyle’ King allegedly [...]
Usain Bolt defrauded of $12.7M life savings, ‘his account has only $12,000’ left in it – Investment firm is given 10 days to return it or face charges
World sprints record holder Usain, Bolt, 36, has been defrauded of his life savings The eight-time Olympic champion put his fortune in a private investment firm in Kingston, [...]
Jamaican financial authorities launch probe after millions ‘Walk’ from Usain Bolt’s account
Jamaican financial authorities launch investigation into SSL, the company holding investments for eight-times Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt Probe began after millions was [...]
Portland lawyer, Lori E. Deveny, 57, sentenced to eight years in prison, ordered to pay $4.5M in restitution, after stealing insurance payouts for 135 clients to ‘fund her lavish lifestyle’
Portland lawyer Monday was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing $3.8M in insurance payouts for 135 clients to pay for her lavish lifestyle Lori E. Deveny was [...]
After crypto fraud, extradited FTX’s co-founder is released on $250 MILLION bond with restrictive terms – Sam Bankman-Fried and his ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison, had taken plea deal on federal charges on Wednesday
Arraigned in New York on Friday, Sam Bankman-Fried was released on $250 million bond with restrictive terms Bankman-Fried was in FBI custody after being extradited from the [...]
Online sexual blackmail of teens which has led to suicides on the rise, say FBI, as they charge ‘Sextortionist’ who ‘drove boy,17, to suicide by posing as a teenage girl and threatening to post his explicit photos if he didn’t hand over $5,000’
Jonathan Kassi of Van Nuys, CA, was arrested on Monday for allegedly posing as a teenage girl online and sharing explicit photos with Ryan Last, 17, before demanding $5,000 [...]
NYC doctor vanished in a midnight boating accident 25 miles off Long Island coast a week before he was due in court on federal charges for being part of a $100million health fraud scheme
Manhattan doctor mysteriously vanished in a midnight boating accident 25 miles off Long Island coast a week before he was due in court on federal charges for being part of a [...]
Georgia max security prison inmate, Arthur Lee Cofield Jr, 31, ‘stole $11M from cell, using illegal phones after claiming to be billionaires and opening fake bank accounts in their names,’ bought $4.4M mansion – faces murder charge after contract ‘hit’ on love rival, from jail
Georgia gang inmate, reportedly stole $11M from max security jail after impersonating billionaires including Sidney Kimmel and opening fake bank accounts in his name’ A [...]
Hoaxer California mom, Sherri Papini, 39, sentenced to 18 months in prison with $300,000 fine for staging her own kidnap, as Judge extends 8-months prison time sought by prosecutors
‘Kidnap faker’ Sherri Papini, 39, of Redding, California, today was sentenced to 10 months more than prosecution was seeking in a Sacramento court by senior U.S. [...]
More bad news for jailed South Carolina lawyer – Alex Murdaugh is disbarred, charged with murders of wife and son, cops exhume body of housekeeper who died in 2018, revisit mysterious 2015 death of teen boy
South Carolina legal heir Alex Murdaugh is to be charged with the murders of his wife and son this week South Carolina prosecutors have informed the Murdaugh family that [...]
Estranged husband of California ‘Super Mom’ Sherri Papini, files for divorce two days after she pled guilty to faking her own kidnapping and lying to the FBI in 2016; She’s awaiting sentencing
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 [...]