Pump & Dump

The Michelin plate on the table, the Lamborghini in the driveway, the ledger that was never kept

Buntono ran one of Singapore's most beloved late-night eateries for two decades. On July 3, prosecutors laid out how the frog porridge allegedly paid for the supercar, the landed house, and the S$2.4 million in cash.

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The phone was not listening. The salesman was lying.

Cox Media Group will pay $880,000 to settle FTC charges that it sold small businesses an AI service it claimed listened to consumers through their phones. The service did not listen. It resold email lists.

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The bookkeeper labeled her thefts "US TREAS." Nobody opened the file.

Daniella Vasquez worked the books at a Shavano Park homebuilder and a second San Antonio employer. Between May 2021 and September 2022 she moved $759,235.74 to herself and her husband, hiding the wires behind labels that looked like tax payments. On May 13, 2026, a federal judge gave her 51 months and called her lucky.

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The invoices were for trucks that never moved. The Lamborghini was real.

A federal indictment unsealed in Chicago accuses an Orland Park freight company owner of billing for shipments that never happened and inflating bakery franchises before selling them. The receipts are parked in his garage.

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