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.
Daiwor Woah-Tee ran a tax preparation business in Belcamp, Maryland for nearly seven years. Federal prosecutors say what he actually ran was a pipeline that turned other people's identities into refund checks and pandemic unemployment benefits, $4 million worth, before the pipeline finally showed.
Maria Roza Tomescu was sentenced this week to 28 months for cloning the EBT cards of food-stamp recipients across five states. The machine she fed turned hunger benefits into bulk baby formula and energy drinks, then into cash.