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She told them she was caring for a sick aunt. She was reporting to federal prison.

Tracey Smith, 58, of Clairton, pleaded guilty this week to bank fraud in a scheme that ran across four employers and survived a federal prison sentence in the middle of it. The machine was her resume.

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The badge was still warm. The trust was already spent.

Joelle Mopiti, 27, pleaded guilty to ten counts of theft and two counts of money laundering after using a bank staff badge to collect cards from AIB customers. The badge did most of the work.

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The twenty-year hunt ended in a town the ledger never named

A ₹1.25 crore hole at an SBI branch in Dhanbad opened in 2002. The men accused of digging it lived under other names for two decades. Last weekend, the names caught up.

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The collateral was a PDF. The loan was ninety-nine million dollars.

Federal prosecutors say a Newport Beach borrower used edited PDFs to convince Western Alliance Bank his collateral was clean. The deeds of trust said otherwise. By the time the bank looked underneath, the properties were already in foreclosure.

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The books said growth. The ledger said laundry. Bengaluru learned the difference.

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The teller smiled. The driver's license was a costume.

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