By Steve Neavling tickethewire.com A Philadelphia municipal judge who pleaded guilty last week to mail and wire fraud charges was caught in the act when the FBI invented a defendant, the Associated Press reports. Judge Joseph Waters Jr., who was suspected of corruption, had no idea that the FBI created a bogus defendant, David Khoury,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a former FBI agent, was indicted Monday on 20 counts of fraud and other charges in connection to a Manhattan restaurant he owned, Fox News reports. The Republican from New York evading the IRS and hiding more than $1 million in profits to avoid paying taxes. Grimm, who…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former college professor who was working as an FBI informant investigating mortgage fraud was sentenced to four years and four months in prison Thursdsay for hatching his own mortgage fraud scheme, The Plain Dealer reports. Paul Tomko asked for leniency but got none from U.S. District Judge Christopher Boyko. Tomko pleaded…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Joseph Romano, a convicted con man, wanted revenge for being sentenced to 15 years behind bars. So much so, reports the New York Daily News, that he tried to hire hitmen to torture and decapitate the judge and prosecutor who oversaw his case in New York. An added bonus to the killers:…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Nashville FBI agent who was sentenced last year to four years in prison for wire and bankruptcy fraud may get a new trial after allegations of racial discrimination surfaced, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, the Tennessean reports. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals said the case should be sent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former NFL running back Michael Antwon Bennett couldn’t run away fast enough from this problem. Bennett faces up to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty last week to making fraudulent financial claims in order to get a $200,000 loan, the Florida Sun Sentinel reports. Bennett, 33, tried to get the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former homicide detective in St. Petersburg, Fla. was slapped with two years in prison for public corruption charges, the FBI announced on Wednesday morning. Anthony V. Foster received the sentence after pleading guilty to wire fraud to deprive the public of honest services on October 20, 2011. Court documents show…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal jury in Nashville on Thursday convicted an FBI agent on 15 counts of wire fraud and three counts of bankruptcy fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Agent Darin Lee McAllister, 44, of Brentwood, Tenn., who is married to a Christian gospel singer, was indicted in May on the multiple…
