Federal prosecutors say two attorneys turned confidential merger files at Sidley, Latham, Goodwin, and three other firms into a decade-long trading tip line. This week, two more men are set to plead guilty.
Jennifer Fleener spent nine years learning how her employer paid claims. Then she spent five more years turning that knowledge into $1.2 million, a network of fake policyholders in the Philippines, and eight federal sentences handed down this summer in the Southern District of Indiana.
Michelle Acker pleaded guilty this week to a six-year wire fraud that drained more than $670,000 from an elderly woman and her friend. The mechanism was a voice on the phone, an emergency that never ended, and an insurance agent who never existed.
Rossen Iossifov was already doing 111 months for laundering nearly $5 million when, prosecutors now allege, the crypto the court ordered him to forfeit walked out of a Kraken account and through a mixer. The story is not the theft. The story is that the keys never actually left the cell.
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.
Joseph Kwadwo Badu Boateng spent ten years running a long con out of Ghana under the name "Dada Joe Remix," courting elderly Americans through screens and asking them to pay the taxes on a fortune that was never going to arrive. He pleaded guilty in Arizona on a conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge and agreed to $4.4 million in restitution.