Court documents filed on Thursday alleged that a bank often allowed South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to overdraw his account, sometimes in the six-figure range. FITS News reported that Palmetto State Bank apparently allowed Murdaugh to keep his accounts in the negative for the past several years. Despite this, the bank allegedly gave Murdaugh large …
An Alabama-born Florida man is expected to plead guilty Thursday to federal wire and mail fraud and money laundering charges, all related to his alleged romance scams that netted him more than $750,000 from at least 21 women in eight states. Brian Brainard Wedgeworth, 46, was indicted last October and arrested in Nashville not long …
Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh allegedly made a series of unsubstantiated — and contradictory — claims about a housekeeper who suffered a fatal fall on his property in 2018 to receive substantial insurance payouts. FITS News, citing 911 calls and various documents, reported that at the time of Gloria Satterfield’s fall, Murdaugh had an …
A disgraced former MIT professor is headed to prison after forging documents in an attempt to steal from his late son’s estate. As CrimeOnline previously reported, John Donovan Sr., 80, of Hamilton, was convicted of seven forgery charges on 25 documents, including mortgages, deeds, land transfers, and even his late son’s will codicil. Donovan Sr.’s …
Disgraced former MIT professor John Donovan Sr. was taken into custody inside a Salem, Massachusetts courtroom last week, after a jury found him guilty of forgery and fraud in a scheme to steal from his dead son’s estate. The conviction is the latest chapter in a decades-long saga of criminality, fraud, and family conflict. John Donovan Sr., …
A woman who claimed she was the cousin of a 14-year-old boy who died in March at a Florida amusement park was fired from her job last week after the teen’s family claimed they did not know her. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Lewishena Browning identified herself to the media as Shay Johnson and attended Tyre …
A former employee of the Yale University School of Medicine this week pleaded guilty to fraud and tax offenses related to the theft of $40 million in electronics from the school. Jamie Petrone, most recently director of finance and administration for the Department of Emergency Medicine, bought millions of dollars of purchases from the university’s …
Canadian police have now arrested five people for a widespread scam that targets senior citizens by demanding large sums of money to release their grandchildren from police custody. In the most recent arrest, a 78-year-old woman was contacted by a man pretending to be her grandson, according to Toronto police. The fake grandson said he’d …
The father of Anna Sorokin — who scammed banks and hotels for more than $200,000 while posing as a German heiress — said his fraudster daughter is still living a lavish lifestyle while housed at an immigration center in New York. Speaking with the Daily Mail, Vadim Sorokin revealed that he speaks to his 31-year-old …
A federal jury convicted a former Wisconsin dentist of intentionally damaging patients’ teeth to collect insurance money for fixing them. Scott Charmoli, 61, gave patients more than 1,600 crowns over 20 months, prosecutors said — a rate of 32 crowns per 100 patients, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. An insurance company executive testified during the trial …
A mother-daughter psychic team swindled a 27-year-old upstate New York woman out of tens of thousands of dollars to kill an “unholy sexual spirit” living in her pelvic area and reunited her with an ex-boyfriend. The victim, whose name is being withheld because she also is a sexual abuse victim, paid Honeybee Green and Megan …
A Texas medical examiner is accused of offering to change the cause of death on a man’s autopsy, and investigators say this isn’t the first time he’s been under fire for questionable autopsy results. According to court documents, Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Sandra Lyden was practicing without a license in Nueces County; she was arrested …
