For nearly seven years, TERO fee checks meant for the Oglala Sioux Tribe's general fund took a detour through a personal bank account in Porcupine, South Dakota. Buffy Redfish was sentenced on June 29 to six and a half years. The window she sat behind is the story.
Forty-six state attorneys general say Cash App sold a safety it never built. The $45 million settlement is the receipt for what happened to the people who believed the pitch.
Kondagaon Police arrested five men this week in an alleged ₹12 crore ($1.4M USD) loan scheme that ran through 43 teachers' salary accounts. The pitch was simple. The math was the trap.
India's markets regulator says a listed textile company with almost no textile sales somehow climbed 842 percent in a year. The looms were empty. The order book was in the trading terminal.
Curtis Quigley drowned in the Okanagan before he could stand trial. A B.C. judge just ruled the trustee can move fast on the investors who came out ahead, because in a Ponzi scheme, coming out ahead means you were paid with someone else's money.
A Ghanaian man named Isaac Oduro Boateng, known as Abu Trica, was extradited to the United States this week to face charges he ran a grandparent scam that took millions from elderly Americans. This is what that call sounds like from the other end of the line.