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An ex-accounts manager for a University of South Florida medical school-affiliated non-profit has issued a guilty plea to an embezzling scheme that involved nearly $13 million. Most of that money was pushed through an adult website, with some of it eventually being funneled back to him. According to a report from the Tampa Bay Times, 59-year-old Ralph […]
After raising suspicion from the Indigenous community, an art dealer from the Fraser Valley, B.C. has confessed that he’s been deliberately deceiving buyers in Canada and around the world for years. For years, the gift shops at some of B.C.’s most renowned museums and art galleries have carried wood carvings by an artist named “Harvey John,” who, according to an […]
A group of ex-California officers are collectively facing nearly 100 felonies in connection to a multi-year fraud scheme. According to CBS Los Angles, the former California Highway Patrol officers are accused of exaggerating their overtime between Jan. 1, 2016 and March 31, 2018. During that time, the officers reportedly bilked the state out of $23,418.27. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced […]
The woman Diplo filed a restraining order against and sued in April for alleged harrassment has now filed her own lawsuit against the DJ. In legal documents obtained by TMZ, Diplo’s ex-girlfriend, Shelly Auguste, is reportedly accusing the 42-year-old performer of sexual battery, assault, defamation, infliction of emotional distress, and fraud. Auguste alleges Diplo first contacted her on Twitter when she was […]
Former Chicago Cubs star Ben Zobrist filed a lawsuit last month accusing his former pastor of having an affair with his wife and defrauding his charity. Yahoo Sports reports that Zobrist alleges Byron Yawn, who initially started out as a marital counselor for Ben and his wife Julianna, was “secretly pursuing an intimate relationship” one year before he “began meeting her for sex” in […]
Mary Margaret Kreuper, a 79-year-old retired nun from California, has agreed to plead guilty to charges of stealing over $800,000 from a catholic school, New York Daily News reports. Kreuper, who was the principal at Torrance’s St. James Catholic School for 28 years, admitted in a plea agreement that she stole money from the elementary school from 2008 to […]
A Florida man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars in coronavirus relief funds. According to the Department of Justice, 29-year-old Miami resident David Tyler Hines is accused of falsifying federal applications to secure $3.9 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans, which were intended to help small businesses stay afloat during the pandemic. […]
An aspiring rapper who admitted to stealing millions of dollars to boost his music career has been sentenced to 30 months behind bars. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, 33-year-old Chad Arrington, aka “Chad Focus,” received his sentence Wednesday, more than a year after he pleaded guilty to federal wire […]
A California man has been accused of fraudulently obtaining $5 million in federal coronavirus relief loans and using the money to live a luxury lifestyle, NBC News reports. Mustafa Qadiri, 38, of Irvine, was arrested Friday and charged with four counts of bank fraud, four counts of wire fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, […]
G Herbo’s legal drama continues. On Wednesday, The Shade Room reported that the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts filed another charge against the rapper, born Herbert Wright III, for lying about his connection to one of his co-defendants in their ongoing fraud case while speaking to a federal agent. “Herbert Wright III, a/k/a ‘Herb,’ ‘Lil […]
