A 19-year-old Iowa woman was charged earlier this month with scamming nearly $40,000 with false claims that she had cancer. The Eldridge Police Department said Madison Russo claimed to have acute lymphoblastic leukemia, stage 2 pancreatic cancer, and a football-sized tumor wrapped around her spine as she solicited more than $37,000 from 439 donors, according …
Theranos found Elizabeth Holmes booked a one-way ticket to Mexico a year ago, just after she was convicted of defrauding investors. Prosecutors made the claim Friday in a court filing arguing that she should begin her nearly 13-year prison sentence rather than living in a $13,000/month estate while waiting to begin the sentence in April, …
Two Colorado funeral home owners have been sentenced to prison for illegally selling body parts and giving clients fake ashes. Megan Hess, 46, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and her mother, 69-year-old Shirley Koch, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after their guilty pleas earlier this year. Hess and Koch stipulated that, …
A Florida man has been convicted of fraudulently obtaining more than $2 million in pandemic relief funds, which he used to buy a Lamborghini, Rolex and Hublot watches, and designer clothing from Louis Vuitton, Bucci, and Chanel. Valesky Barosy, 27, posted photos of his extravagant purchases on his Instagram account — which he called “@your_favorite_entrepeneur …
A South Carolina grand jury indicted Alex Murdaugh on tax evasion on Friday, a month ahead of his trial for the murders of his wife and son. Greenville News reported that Murdaugh, 64, failed to report $6,954,639 of income garnered from illegal acts from 2011 through 2019. The Attorney General said Murdaugh owes $486,819 in …
State Attorney: “Every incident of alleged elder exploitation or abuse touches our heart and never fails to shock us. It seems particularly harder to understand when the alleged perpetrator of the exploitation is a daughter, or a son or another blood relative”
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 …
