A mother in Russia avoided jail despite killing her adult son by hitting him over the head with a frying pan and using a power saw to cut his body into more than 70 pieces. According to Metro News, a 63-year-old woman, identified only as Lyudmila R, was convicted of murder but was spared jail as …
A Florida widow says she lost her life savings to a con artist she met on the dating website Match.com. Diane Amanda Standish told News 6 that she met a man who called himself Jerry Michael on the website, believing it was a match made in heaven. But the man she believed to be a …
An ex-Apple employee will spend three years behind bars after perpetrating a brazen plot to steal nearly a quarter of a million dollars from her employer. While 42-year-old Toni Ann Branca spent much of the embezzled money on personal items, it was a series of lingerie purchases that initially raised red flags for investigators. According …
By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Shrkeli, the smirking “Pharma Bro” vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for defrauding investors in two failed hedge funds. The self-promoting pharmaceutical executive notorious for trolling critics online was convicted in …
A Chief Deputy United States Marshal allegedly engaged in sexual activity with multiple women on government property, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). The report also states that the marshal allowed women he had sexual relationships unauthorized access to government parking. The marshal, whose name …
A North Carolina televangelist is facing a federal indictment after being accused of committing massive tax fraud for over a decade, according to NPR. Todd Coontz, 50, was charged with three counts of failure to pay taxes and four counts of aiding and assisting in filing false tax returns. North Carolina news station WSOC conducted their own …
A federal prosecutor from the U.S. Attorney’s office has been found dead on a Hollywood, Florida, beach. According to the Miami Herald, Beranton J. Whisenant Jr., 37, was found dead by a passerby in the water at Hollywood Beach Wednesday morning. Police believe he may have died from a gunshot wound to the head or some …
A Russian escort accused of blackmailing disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has fired back, has accused Spitzer of using his political power to avoid arrest for an alleged violent assault in a luxury Manhattan hotel room. Attorneys representing Svetlana Zakharova, 26, claim the ex-governor attacked her in a $1,000 a night suite at …
The contractor’s lawyer claims he is a hoarder, not a thief
Florida man believes Jesus wanted him to be rich
