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The latest chapter in the Brett Favre welfare fraud saga comes via new report which details how two companies backed by the Hall of Fame quarterback allegedly took millions of dollars in welfare funds, and lied about the effectiveness of their products, Pharmaceutical companies Prevacus and PresolMD, both founded by Jake VanLandingham and backed by Favre, have been trying […]
A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty in connection with staging a fire and falsely blaming it on, among other conservative boogeymen, “Antifa.” The fire in question, per a regional report from KSTP, was first reported to authorities in September 2020. At the time, 30-year-old Denis Vladmirovich Molla claimed to local law enforcement officials that a group […]
A Georgia inmate is accused of stealing millions from a billionaire movie mogul by pretending to be him while behind bars. Arthur Lee Cofield Jr., 31, allegedly ran an elaborate operation inside the Georgia Department of Corrections’ Special Management Unit in which he tricked customer service representatives at Charles Schwab into believing he was Sidney […]
Anna Sorokin, the fake German heiress who was the subject of Netflix’s Inventing Anna drama series, has given her first interview following her release from jail. The Russian-born con-artist, who posed as an heiress named Anna Delvey in New York from 2013 until her arrest in 2017, was released earlier this month on a $10,000 bail bond. Currently under […]
A man in Ohio was convicted on Friday after swindling 14 people out of more than $800,000 as part of a six-year operation where he claimed to be a Ghanaian prince. A press release from the Justice Department explains Daryl Robert Harrison, 44, pretended to be Prince Daryl R. Attipoe and Prophet Daryl R. Attipoe. He sought investors for alleged African mining […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that she’s filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump, his company, and his three eldest children over alleged business fraud, the Associated Press reports. In the 220-page suit, James accused Trump of inflating his net worth in order to negotiate better loan agreements. Her office is seeking $250 million in penalties. “Donald […]
Self-described “Crypto King” Aiden Pleterski had $2 million in assets seized, including luxury cars, as investors try to recoup millions given to him and his company, according to a CBC Toronto investigation. Among the assets seized from the 23-year-old Whitby, Ontario, native include two McLarens, two BMWs, and Lamborghini. Investors also asked about a Patek […]
A New Jersey woman has been sentenced in connection with a GoFundMe scam that raised $400,000 by creating a fake story about a homeless veteran. According to the Burlington County Sheriff’s Office, a federal judge on Thursday sentenced Katelyn McClure, 32, of Bordentown, to one year and one day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. McClure […]
Jen Shah, one of the stars of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty on Monday to defrauding hundreds of victims in a telemarketing scheme. NBC News reports Shah entered her guilty plea in a Manhattan federal court for one charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. As a result, a second charge for […]
A rapper who boasted about committing unemployment fraud has agreed to a plea deal. According to the Department of Justice, 33-year-old Fontrell Antonio Baines, aka Nuke Bizzle, has confessed to illegally obtaining COVID relief funds in the summer of 2020. Baines is accused of bragging about the scheme in the music video for “EDD”—a reference to the Employment […]
