Fraud
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 [...]
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, [...]