Senior / Family

The letters said the money was safe. The money was already gone.

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.

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Pump & Dump

The wire went out on a Tuesday. The house went with it.

A federal jury in South Carolina convicted Demani and Tanya Bosket this week in a transnational email-compromise ring that drained more than $25 million from people in the middle of the largest transactions of their lives. The pitch was not a pitch. It was a forwarded thread.

Pump & Dump

The landlord who was not a landlord bought a Yukon with the rent

Steven Hendren pleaded guilty in St. Louis federal court to wire fraud after pulling $284,840.44 out of a Missouri pandemic housing program by inventing tenants, leases, and rent rolls. The money was supposed to keep people in their homes. Some of it went to a 2020 GMC Yukon.

Crypto

The mixer had a car's name. The money had no name at all.

Federal prosecutors say two men in the Republic of Georgia ran a Bitcoin laundering service called AudiA6 for almost five years, washing ransomware payouts and dark web revenue through 10,333 transactions. The arrests happened on a Wednesday. The machine had been running since 2021.

Pump & Dump

The badge came off in 2012. The pitch did not.

Jeffrey Royer, a former FBI special agent already convicted once for corruption, pleaded guilty in Detroit to a forex investment fraud that ran from 2020 through 2023. The monthly statements his investors received showed steady gains. The account was bleeding.

Senior / Family

The list was the product. The grandmothers were the inventory.

Troy Murray operated under the name Steve Dixon and ran a database of seven million elderly Americans, selling their names by the hundred to lottery scammers in Jamaica. On May 28, a federal judge gave him 121 months.

The Daily Brief

The man she met online was nine people, and a federal judge just sentenced all of them.

Mark Tell · May 19

The contractor had cancer. The contractor did not exist.

Ray Delgado · May 15

The compound, the script, and the wallet that finally went quiet

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