Andrea Doherty took over her father's classic Porsche business in Fallbrook after he died in 2021. Federal prosecutors say she then sold consigned cars she did not own, twice, and forged a signature to close the last one.
Brendan and Lisa Lawler ran a small insurance brokerage in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Federal prosecutors say the premiums their clients paid never reached the insurers. The paperwork said otherwise.
Antonio Bonheur ran a 150-square-foot storefront in Mattapan that pulled more SNAP money in a month than a full supermarket. Federal prosecutors say the store had no refrigerator, almost no food, and a bank structure built to hide what the register was actually doing.
Darwin Alberto Corea Calderon was sentenced this week for a three-year scheme that drained more than $464,000 from Home Depot stores across the Carolinas. The mechanism was smaller than a Ponzi and older than the self-checkout aisle.
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.
Franklin Ikechukwu Nwadialo got five years in federal prison this week for a romance fraud that drained $3.5 million from eight people over fifteen years. The court called it devastating. The wire chain called it a business.