Fraud

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

January 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

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

January 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

‘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

January 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

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

December 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

December 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

November 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

October 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

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’

October 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

October 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

October 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

September 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

September 16, 2021 // 1 Comment

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

September 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

September 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

August 4, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

August 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

July 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

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’

July 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

July 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

May 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

April 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

March 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

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

March 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

March 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

Prosecutors say billionaire Robert Brockman, 79, who is being investigated for tax ivasion, is faking dementia to avoid trial – BFormer employees and associates [...]

Ex-college student, 29, is charged with ‘conspiring with her classmate’s sex cult dad, 61, who moved into his daughter’s student apartment before pimping out her friends, blackmailing them and extorting them out of $1 million’ – Isabella Pollok and her ‘pimp daddy’, both face life in prison

March 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

Isabella Pollok, at 19, was Talia Ray’s best friend and college roommate In 2010, her friend’s dad Lawrence Ray started sleeping in her room, claiming she needed [...]

Kirbyjon Caldwell, is jailed for six years for bilking investors out of millions of dollars, persuading them to invest in worthless historical Chinese bonds – Texas megachurch pastor once was spiritual adviser to two presidents

January 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

Kirbyjon H. Caldwell, 67, who was indicted in 2018 along with Gregory A. Smith in a junk bond scam, was sentenced Wednesday to serve six years in a Louisiana prison The Texas [...]

West Point cadets are caught cheating on remote exam in biggest academic scandal at military school in four decades – ALL of the first-year students made same mistake in their math test

December 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

More than 70 West Point cadets are caught cheating on remote exam in biggest academic scandal at military school in 44 years Investigation reveals ALL of the first-year [...]

Former head of workers pensions scheme, accused of embezzling workers funds, collapses in Nigerian courtroom during trial

December 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Embattled boss of a Nigerian federal agency Abdulrasheed Maina Thursday collapsed during proceedings at the Federal High Court in Abuja court on Thursday Maina the former [...]

Florida woman, 48, charged after hiding man’s ‘rapidly decomposing’ body in a trash can, for months, so she can collect his Social Security checks

December 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Florida woman hides man’s ‘rapidly decomposing’ body in a trash can so she can collect his Social Security checks Michelle Haney, has been charged with abuse of a dead [...]

Nebraska drug kingpin, Howard Farley Jr, on the run for 35 years, found living in Florida after applying for a passport under a dead baby’s identity

December 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

Howard D. Farley Jr., 72, was living in Ocala, Florida at the time of his arrest on Wednesday The alleged Nebraska drug kingpin has been on the run for 35 years after evading [...]

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Film producer David Pearce, 39, held in deaths of LA model and her designer friend wants his $3.4m bail lowered, while he fights separate rape charges of sexually assaulting four other women between 2010 and 2020

Teen brothers arrested in Texas along with a friend, for beating their stepdad to death, ‘with Brass knuckles’, after he sexually abused their half-sister, nine

Biker sues Lake Worth police officer after dash cam footage captured officer running him over with his SUV as he tried to flee a traffic stop on foot – plaintiff, Dustin Bates, suffered fractured spine, broken leg and ribs

Bridgeport police reopen investigation into death of college student, 23, as it’s revealed she died of drug cocktail OD, including fentanyl, after night of ‘drinking’ with man she met on Bumble

Wyoming Sheriff’s Department fires ‘racist’ deputy ‘who taunted a black colleague with vile n-word slurs and drove him to quit’ law enforcement

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