Steven Hendren pleaded guilty in St. Louis federal court to wire fraud after pulling $284,840.44 out of a Missouri pandemic housing program by inventing tenants, leases, and rent rolls. The money was supposed to keep people in their homes. Some of it went to a 2020 GMC Yukon.
Bob Hunter, 72, sold executives in Springfield, Missouri a polished retirement product and then spent their money. The statements he mailed back were the lock on the door.
Ashley Benny, a school board treasurer in a Missouri town of a few hundred people, pitched her board on a "no risk" overseas investment. She did not mention she owned the bank account on the other end of the wire.
By Mark Tell · May 21
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