Federal prosecutors say Fahad Mohamed Nur helped drain a pandemic child-nutrition program of millions before fleeing the country in January 2022. This week the FBI put a $150,000 price on finding him.
Christopher Delgado has agreed to plead guilty to running a $250 million crypto Ponzi out of Orlando. The pool he sold investors on existed mostly as a phrase in a law firm's opinion letter.
Xin Liu was the hand at the door. The voice on the phone was someone else, somewhere else, and the cash she collected over eight days in July had a name on it that belonged to a woman who thought she was saving her grandson.
Xin Liu was sentenced to 27 months for driving from one Florida porch to another, collecting envelopes of cash from elderly victims who had been told, by voices on the phone, that their grandchildren were in jail. She was the last visible piece of a machine whose other parts were on a different continent.
Federal prosecutors say six defendants ran a Publishers Clearing House impersonation scheme out of Florida and Virginia, calling elderly Americans, telling them they had won millions, and collecting the "fees" by mail. The indictment landed June 2. The arrests followed within a week.
Patrick Bucknum ran a network that paid the bills for eleven Washington clinics. For six years, the federal complaint says, he ran the clinics' money through his own brokerage account instead.
Peel Regional Police say Navdeep Boparai used a Brampton mortgage company to take roughly $1.46M from elderly investors who thought they were funding private mortgages and a condominium project. The paperwork had been warning about him for years.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ₹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.
For ten years, Northwest Capital in Toledo told two hundred people their money was working. A grand jury in Ohio says it was moving in a circle. This summer, the circle finally opened in a courtroom.
Federal prosecutors in Davenport say Chad Boal and Corey Richards ran a Ponzi scheme out of Burlington called the Golden Bar Foundation. The pitch was risk-free returns. The proof, allegedly, was parked in the driveway.
A former kindergarten teacher stood in a Shah Alam courtroom on Friday and pleaded not guilty to laundering RM133,550 (about $31K USD) tied to an alleged scheme to relocate a stranger's child to New Zealand. The complainant is a 39-year-old mother who believed she was buying her child a future.
James Shuford Price III pleaded guilty in federal court on June 24 to running a Los Angeles lab that billed taxpayer-funded health programs for tens of millions in respiratory tests, many authorized by physicians who had never heard of the patients. The doctors did not know their names were on the paperwork. Neither did most of the patients.
John Sterling Myers ran money for people who knew him by his first name. Federal prosecutors say the statements he mailed them were fiction, and the accounts behind those statements were already dust.
On June 24, 2026, Tricolor's former COO admitted he helped pledge the same car loans to multiple banks. The borrowers were Hispanic immigrants buying used cars. The shortfall was eight hundred million dollars.