The county judge moved $46,500 through his own kitchen and called it a loan repayment
KP George ran Fort Bend County while a jury was deciding whether he had washed his own campaign money through his own checking account. On June 16, they decided.
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The FBI warned her twice. She kept washing the money anyway.
Laura Frantz of Saluda, South Carolina, was sentenced to federal prison this week for moving money stolen through business email compromise. The FBI says they warned her more than once. She kept the account open anyway.
The application took six minutes. The prison sentence took forty-one months.
Currin Caridine ran a kickback assembly line through the PPP program, recruiting Mainers and New Hampshire residents into fake applications for businesses that did not exist. The Small Business Administration paid out roughly $475,000 before the machine got names.
She thought she was funding a wedding. She was funding a wire route through Esenyurt.
A Hong Kong dentist spent two years wiring her savings to a man she believed was an American businessman in Istanbul. Turkish police now say the man was Nigerian, the romance was a script, and the bank accounts were a relay system.
The cousin sent a text. The retired trader sent in the orders.
Gerard Ryan, 62, spent decades on a trading floor before retiring to Mississippi. Then a family member at a New York biotech told him what the FDA was about to do, and he could not leave it alone.
The private shares were never private. They were never shares.
An Italian citizen running a New York investment advisory firm sold investors what looked like access to private company shares. Federal prosecutors say the shares did not exist. A judge sentenced him to four years.
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