Antonio Bonheur ran a 150-square-foot storefront in Mattapan that pulled more SNAP money in a month than a full supermarket. Federal prosecutors say the store had no refrigerator, almost no food, and a bank structure built to hide what the register was actually doing.
A Queens grand jury says five people used stolen identities and forged licenses to take out a $688,000 cash-out mortgage on a Flushing home the defendants did not own. The real homeowners kept living in it.
Darwin Alberto Corea Calderon was sentenced this week for a three-year scheme that drained more than $464,000 from Home Depot stores across the Carolinas. The mechanism was smaller than a Ponzi and older than the self-checkout aisle.
A federal indictment unsealed this month alleges Richard Reinaldo Garcia turned faith into a wire-transfer instruction, routing more than $3.2 million from over fifty believers into accounts named for a ministry that mostly existed on paperwork.
Former Anne Arundel County officer Jaron Earl Taylor was sentenced July 10 for helping run a ring of police officers who staged car thefts and wrote the police reports that made the claims stick. The badge was the machine.
A Naples man was sentenced to four years for draining $1.26 million from an elderly Hurricane Ian victim through a contractor scheme that kept running after her husband died, after she sold the house, after she moved into assisted living.