Fraud
State Patrolman Pleads Guilty to Multiple Charges of Fraud
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper pled guilty in a US District Court on Monday to charges of mortgage fraud, bankruptcy fraud and witness tampering, the FBI announced. Benjamin W. Richardson, 46, of Powell, Ohio, plead guilty to the eight-count indictment before US District Judge Gregory L. Frost. Richardson was…
NY Assemblyman Indicted for Bribes
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A New York state Assemblyman has been charged by a federal grand jury for soliciting more than $250,000 in bribes, reports the New York Post. William F. Boyland, Jr. is charged with soliciting more than $250,000 in bribes in order to fast-track development deals and to help a carnival company, the…
Aryan Nations Leader Who Appeared on Jerry Springer Show Sentenced in Fraud Case
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com An Aryan Nations leader of fleeting TV fame was sentenced Wednesday for taking more money than he was legally entitled to from a government he despised, the Associated Press reports. August Kreis III, who appeared multiple times on the Jerry Springer show and in a 2005 interview on CNN called al-Qaeda…
Hunt on for $600M; Smelling Like Fraud
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI investigators have found themselves in a “Whack-a-Mole” like search for $600 million in missing funds, reports MSNBC. The search, in partnership with the Commodity Futures Training Commission and the SEC, is for lost customer cash in an investigation into New Jersey Gov. John Corzine’s now bankrupt brokerage firm MF Global….
More on the Bernie Madoff Fallout: 8 SEC Workers Disciplined
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Madoff scandal is the gift that keeps giving. The latest: David Hilzenrath of the Washington Post reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission has disciplined 8 of its employees as part of the agency’s failure to stop the fraud. But Hilzenrath writes that no one was fired even though SEC’s…
Cyber Ring that Infected Millions Taken Down
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Six Estonians operated a vast internet fraud that infected approximately 4 million computers in more than a hundred countries–500,000 of which were in the US–according to a federal indictment unsealed in New York Wednesday. Their arrests in Estonia on Tuesday were the culmination of a two-year FBI probe named Operation Ghost…
Couple Sentenced in Pregnancy Scam
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com She was perhaps the only lady not carrying for whom you might ask, “how many months along are you?” without being slapped in the face. Serena Carol Mathews, 42, and boyfriend Scott Thomas Smith, 34, of Oklahoma City, were sentenced to 27 months each on Tuesday in Oklahoma City after pleading…