Former Silicon Valley darling Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 135 months in prison on Friday after she was found guilty in January of four counts of wire fraud related to teh collapse of her company, Theranos, which had promised to deliver health information from a drop of blood. The problem: The technology didn’t work.
A New York man was arrested on Tuesday for faking his 4-year-old son’s death for financial gain. According to WWNY, Kaleb Stevens, 30, cheated his co-workers and boss at FineLine Constructors in Adams out of more than $1,500 by claiming his son had died of cancer. An administrative assistant told police that in August, Stevens …
A North Carolina man with a lengthy history of arrests for impersonating a law enforcement officer was arrested again this week on the same charge, just over five months after his last conviction. According to an arrest warrant, Adrian Michael Crump, 59, was pretending to be a CIA officer on Thursday at a Wake Forest …
Anna Sorokin, the German con artist who was the basis for the Netflix show “Inventing Anna,” was released from prison on Friday in upstate New York and driven to Manhattan, where she will be under house arrest while immigration authorities seek to deport her, Fox News reports. Sorokin left the jail in Orange County around …
Three Virginia men were arrested this week and charged with conspiring to defraud Zachary Cruz, Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s brother, and exploiting mental incapacity.
A California mother who claimed she was kidnapped and tortured for three weeks in 2016 — but was actually staying with an ex-boyfriend 600 miles from her home — has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for her elaborate hoax. According to the Record Searchlight, prosecutors asked for an 8-month sentence followed by three …
A 31-year-old Texas woman has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud for her part in internet-based “romance scams” perpetrated against victims across the United States. Dominque Golden admitted to personally collecting more than $1.26 million between February 4, 2018, and December 12, 2018, and depositing it in into bank accounts …
On Wednesday, federal authorities in New York arrested three owners of a national yoga studio chain for tax fraud. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement that Yoga to the People netted more than $20 million and that Gregory Gumucio, 61, Michael Anderson, 51, and Haven Soliman, 33, failed to pay taxes on the …
A bride-to-be left her fiancé at the altar this week — or rather, a ticket counter at Heathrow airport, where they were preparing to fly to Rome for the wedding. The groom-to-be told airport staff that he’d stepped away to go to the restroom, and she was gone when he returned, with all of their …
A US defense contractor and his wife have been charged with stealing the identities of two dead children in Texas and living under their names for decades. Walter Glenn Primrose, who was an avionics electrical technician in the US Coast Guard before his retirement, and Gwynn Darle Morrison were arrested last week Kapolei, Hawaii, on …
On Tuesday, the South Carolina Supreme Court formally disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh, who remains jailed on a slew of financial fraud charges and is expected to be charged with his wife and son’s murders this week. The state court had suspended Murdaugh’s license in September 2021, days after he was left injured in an alleged …
