Dodge County Sheriff Dustin Weitzel spent four years quietly moving money out of the Fraternal Order of Police account he was supposed to guard. He almost paid it all back. Almost is the story.
Federal prosecutors say Fahad Mohamed Nur helped drain a pandemic child-nutrition program of millions before fleeing the country in January 2022. This week the FBI put a $150,000 price on finding him.
Brandon Ellington branded himself "Mr. Finance" on Chicago television, radio, and billboards. The Illinois Secretary of State now calls his operation a Ponzi-like scheme with a closeout date already on the calendar.
Christopher Delgado has agreed to plead guilty to running a $250 million crypto Ponzi out of Orlando. The pool he sold investors on existed mostly as a phrase in a law firm's opinion letter.
The Philippine SEC ordered Easy Franchise and its celebrity-backed founders to stop selling what regulators call unregistered securities dressed up as franchise ownership. The marks were overseas workers who wanted their money to work while they slept.
Xin Liu was the hand at the door. The voice on the phone was someone else, somewhere else, and the cash she collected over eight days in July had a name on it that belonged to a woman who thought she was saving her grandson.
Xin Liu was sentenced to 27 months for driving from one Florida porch to another, collecting envelopes of cash from elderly victims who had been told, by voices on the phone, that their grandchildren were in jail. She was the last visible piece of a machine whose other parts were on a different continent.
In February 2023, someone kept buying SM Entertainment shares above HYBE's tender price until the bid collapsed. A Seoul court acquitted Kakao's founder last October. The appeal began this week, and the tape is still the witness.
Eight men and three companies tied to the Lucchese crime family admitted their roles in a New Jersey gambling and money laundering enterprise that ran offshore sportsbooks through a café, a trucking company, and a consulting LLC. The shell was always the point.
Federal prosecutors say Ibrahim Khaldoon Hilmi ran a network of shell companies that billed Medicare for medical equipment never ordered and patients who never existed. He fled to Türkiye in May 2025. On June 19, 2026, two FBI agents walked him onto a plane.
Polish authorities arrested four people this week in a SIM-swap and money laundering operation that allegedly drained tens of millions of zloty in crypto. A pseudonymous investigator linked one of the suspects to the case through his own Instagram feed.
A Manatee County retiree took a photograph of the woman who came to collect her envelope. That photograph unwound a courier network that had been moving cash across Florida for over a year.
Federal prosecutors say six defendants ran a Publishers Clearing House impersonation scheme out of Florida and Virginia, calling elderly Americans, telling them they had won millions, and collecting the "fees" by mail. The indictment landed June 2. The arrests followed within a week.
Franklin Ikechukwu Nwadialo got five years in federal prison this week for a romance fraud that drained $3.5 million from eight people over fifteen years. The court called it devastating. The wire chain called it a business.
Six men. 999 fake apps. A database of 8,609 phone numbers with PINs and CVVs attached. The Mumbai Cyber Crime Branch says the file that arrived on your phone was never a gas bill. It was the door.
Federal prosecutors say a Boca Raton clinic ran student-athlete heart screenings as an $89 million billing operation. The indictment alleges the medical director rubber-stamped results he never read. One of those results belonged to a teenager who later collapsed.
Police in Jakarta have detained a former Financial Services Authority executive in the PT Dana Syariah collapse, a sharia-branded peer-to-peer lender that prosecutors allege ran fictitious projects to raise Rp 2.4 trillion ($147M USD) from more than eleven thousand lenders. The man who once helped write the rules sat on the company's masthead.
The FTC moved in April 2026 against three sets of high-level MLM recruiters whose pitches promised six and seven figures. The companies' own income disclosures told a different story to anyone who could find them.
Patrick Bucknum ran a network that paid the bills for eleven Washington clinics. For six years, the federal complaint says, he ran the clinics' money through his own brokerage account instead.
Peel Regional Police say Navdeep Boparai used a Brampton mortgage company to take roughly $1.46M from elderly investors who thought they were funding private mortgages and a condominium project. The paperwork had been warning about him for years.