Federal prosecutors say a father and son in Lawton, Oklahoma billed the military's health program for more than 650,000 in-person breathing-machine visits that never happened. The indictment came down last week. The trucks and the cash were already gone.
A Cleveland man pleaded guilty in a transnational scheme that turned ride-share drivers into unwitting cash couriers and grandchildren's voices into the lock that opened a generation's savings accounts. The machine ran from October through January. The drivers never knew what they were carrying.
Wesley Marley watched his money grow on a screen for months. The screen was the product. The growth was the bait. The withdrawal was the trap.
Kypros Perikleous spent thirty-seven years inside the City of Toronto's transportation department. On Friday he pleaded guilty to washing money for an offshore gambling network allegedly run by a fugitive. The neighbors are still trying to square the two men.
A Lahore accountability court froze the assets of the man behind Prpal.com this week. The freeze is small. The hole behind it is not.
A New Orleans police officer responded to a theft call in October 2019 and, prosecutors said, turned the call itself into the scheme. Six and a half years later, a federal jury saw the badge for what it had been doing.
Seth Adam Depiano was already serving twelve years for a $24M real estate Ponzi when prosecutors say he built another one from inside federal prison. The second machine ran on contraband phones, dead people's houses, and a 26-year-old who just pleaded guilty.
South Korean prosecutors are asking for a 4.5-year sentence against the alleged operator of CATFI, a Solana memecoin that rose 1,001-fold in a day and collapsed 99% by the next week. It is the first rug pull prosecution under the country's new Virtual Asset User Protection Act.
A class action filed in New Jersey alleges ADMA Biologics inflated its 2025 revenue through channel stuffing and an undisclosed related-party distributor tied to its own vice chairman. In two trading days, the stock lost twenty-nine percent.
India's market regulator says a small listed company turned itself into a closed loop: the boss funded the buyers who funded the boss. A retail investor watching the ticker never saw the door behind the door.
A Delhi cafe brand promised assured monthly returns to people who thought they were buying a franchise. The Economic Offences Wing says the kitchen was a cash register pointed the wrong way.
Twenty-two people, including a former gang member, ran the money through a company that looked like it sold gift certificates. It did not sell gift certificates. It sold cover.
Jean Wilson, 54, built a career teaching healthcare compliance and then ran a telehealth operation that the Justice Department says billed Medicare for $136 million in braces and pills no one needed. On Tuesday she got ten years.
Joseph Kwadwo Badu Boateng spent ten years running a long con out of Ghana under the name "Dada Joe Remix," courting elderly Americans through screens and asking them to pay the taxes on a fortune that was never going to arrive. He pleaded guilty in Arizona on a conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge and agreed to $4.4 million in restitution.
A federal grand jury in Knoxville says four men ran military parts through a laundry of fake labels and altered paperwork, then split the profit. The label was the whole trick.
Eleven defendants have pleaded guilty in a $65 million elder fraud and money laundering operation that used call centers in India, money mules in Flushing, and a nationwide grid of short-term rentals to launder cash mailed by more than 2,000 elderly Americans. This is what the machine looked like from the kitchen table.
A federal order tagged a pig butchering operation for $5.5 million after months of manufactured crypto profits scrolled across a woman's WhatsApp screen. The number is real. The friendship on the other end never was.
Hua Wang pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court to running the pickup end of a $65 million elder fraud ring that reached from India-based call centers to short-term rentals across America. The machine ran on cash mailed in shoeboxes by people who thought they were saving their own money.
A ₹143.79 crore ($17M USD) stock manipulation ring in India ran on text messages that looked like they came from Zerodha and ICICI. SEBI's 394-page final order names Hanif Shekh at the center and penalizes 225 others around him.
South Korean regulators sent two alleged crypto market manipulators to prosecutors this week. One of them, they say, bought roughly half a token's global supply on foreign exchanges, then bled it out onto Korean screens where the buyers were waiting.