Former Las Vegas city councilwoman Michele Fiore pleaded not guilty on Friday to wire fraud and conspiracy charges after being indicted on federal fraud charges earlier in the week. According to People, Fiore, 53, was indicted on Tuesday by a federal grand jury on four counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to …
Netflix’s “Owning Manhattan” reality show is using artwork by convicted scam artist Anna Sorokin to sell high end properties and draw viewers. The show follows Ryan Serhant and his luxury property agents as they convince wealthy clients to buy their properties, according to The Decider. In a recent episode, agent Jade Shenker takes a potential …
Convicted liar Sherri Papini claims in court documents she needs her ex-husband to pay her to live, despite shacking up in a three-quarters of a million dollar mansion with her new boyfriend — the same new boyfriend she didn’t bother to mention in those court documents. Papini famously pretended she was kidnapped a tortured for …
Several media outlets, including the New York Times, received responses when they wrote to an email address connected with an attempt to “foreclose” on Elvis Presley’s iconic home in Memphis, Tennessee.
A Kentucky man admitted in March to illegally reporting his death by accessing a secured state health registry. WDKY reported that Jesse Kipf, 39, used a physician’s credentials to open a case for himself in the Hawaii Death Registry System. Kipf not only forged the physician’s signature so he would be listed as dead in …
Brian Walshe, a Massachusetts art dealer accused of killing his wife on New Year’s Day 2023, was sentenced Tuesday to 37 months in federal prison in a separate art fraud case. Walshe had previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud and other charges in which he took photos of a friend’s authentic Andy Warhol paintings and …
A Florida funeral home director has been arrested and charged with grand theft and improper handling of human remains after he allegedly abandoned three bodies in his Jacksonville funeral home and handed out cremains that family members said looked like “chalk or ground kitty litter.” Elliott Maurice Graham, 59, was arrested on Friday in Orlando …
Police in Las Vegas this week arrested a 36-year-old woman for posing as an attorney and accepting fees to help clients “file documents” for divorces, legal reviews, name changes, and adoptions. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Cenia Poulsen defrauded multiple victims since January 2022. She has been charged wih forgery, theft, preparing or …
An Arizona man was arrested last week for breaking into a dead man’s home and selling his vehicle. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said that Michael Macinnis, 45, forged paperwork to say he was the estate’s personal representative before selling the Chevy Tahoe to a Flagstaff resident last May. Macinnis was found to be living …
A 34-year-old Indiana woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for defrauding a 96-year-old widower in an online romance scheme. Brittany Rakia Shawnai Lasley admitted to a judge in September that she created a fake account on the dating site “Plenty of Fish,” according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of …
Janet Mello allegedly bought luxury vehicles, millions of dollars in property, designer clothing and jewelry, and made multiple international trips.
