A Texas man pleaded guilty earlier this month to a single count of wire fraud after prosecutors caught him in a fraud scheme in which he scammed about 50 victims — individuals and companies — for an estimated $1.5 million in cash, goods, and services in 2020 and 2021. Nicholas Bryant, now 26, told people …
A South Carolina banker has been found guilty for his part in disgraced South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh’s schemes to defraud clients of parts of their legal settlements. A federal jury convicted former Palmetto State Bank CEO Russell Laffitte on wire and bank fraud charges. Each of the six charges carries a maximum sentence …
An Ohio mother is heading to prison after lying about her daughter’s terminal illness and raking in cash from unsuspecting donors who contributed to a fraudulent GoFundMe page. According to CBS 7, Lindsey Abbuhl, 35, of Canton, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of child endangering and theft. The guilty plea came after Abbuhl created a …
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 …
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 …
