Nathaniel Anderson sold his foreclosed Willingboro home to a business associate, swore he would leave, and stayed. A federal jury saw through it. On June 1, a judge sent him to prison.
Nikenson Jean Mathurin sat at a keyboard in Sparta, New Jersey, and built fifteen businesses that did not exist. A federal jury in Newark needed four days to see what he had actually built.
Federal prosecutors say a former Brooklyn judge and a 37-year-old investor turned a judicial title into a wire-fraud instrument. The investors thought they were buying a UCC auction position. There was no auction.
Federal prosecutors say a Bergen County man helped move $12.5 million in stolen U.S. Treasury checks through a network of bank accounts and shell deposits. The charging documents describe something older than crypto and quieter than a Ponzi: paper, signatures, and a federal seal turned into a laundering machine.