Jason Lottman pleaded guilty to wire fraud on July 6, 2026, after running a wedding venue that took full payment for weddings it never intended to deliver. The couples paid vendors twice. Some never walked down the aisle at all.
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.
A federal indictment unsealed this month alleges Richard Reinaldo Garcia turned faith into a wire-transfer instruction, routing more than $3.2 million from over fifty believers into accounts named for a ministry that mostly existed on paperwork.
Former Anne Arundel County officer Jaron Earl Taylor was sentenced July 10 for helping run a ring of police officers who staged car thefts and wrote the police reports that made the claims stick. The badge was the machine.
A Naples man was sentenced to four years for draining $1.26 million from an elderly Hurricane Ian victim through a contractor scheme that kept running after her husband died, after she sold the house, after she moved into assisted living.
Dodge County Sheriff Dustin Weitzel spent four years quietly moving money out of the Fraternal Order of Police account he was supposed to guard. He almost paid it all back. Almost is the story.