Bob Hunter ran a Springfield retirement shop called The Summit Group of Missouri. For years, his clients got statements showing their money was right where it should be. On June 11, he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering. The statements were the crime.
In 2012, a man in A Coruña handed his usual lottery slip across a counter and was told it was nearly worthless. The clerk and his brother, a state lottery official, tried to pocket the €4.7 million themselves. Fourteen years later, a court finally named what happened at that counter.
For three decades, Miles Burton Marshall did taxes for his neighbors in Hamilton, New York, and sold them shares in something he called the Eight Percent Fund. On June 11, 2026, a judge entered $85 million in judgments against him for 988 people who thought they had savings.
Federal prosecutors say Winston Batino, a minister at the Chicago Church of Christ's North Ministry Center, spent five years collecting money from about 40 of his own congregants for luxury rehab facilities that never existed. The pews were the pipeline.
Bob Hunter, 72, sold executives in Springfield, Missouri a polished retirement product and then spent their money. The statements he mailed back were the lock on the door.
The Enforcement Directorate arrested Nowhera Shaik's personal assistant on June 3, 2026, in a case that ran a faith label over a Ponzi engine. Roughly 172,000 investors were promised up to 36 percent. The returns, the agency alleges, were never paid.