Jordan Khammar pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn this week to a decade of wire fraud and money laundering. The machine that moved the money was the same machine he was hired to protect.
John S. Winslow spent four years moving a widow's life savings out of her brokerage accounts and into a hot tub, a new car, and an island home. The grocery runs were part of the structure.
Federal prosecutors in Ohio unsealed an indictment this week against two Ghanaian brothers and a Virginia woman accused of running a romance fraud ring that fed on lonely Americans for nearly two years. The script is older than the internet. The pipes are new.
Fifteen Ghanaian nationals have been arrested, indicted, or jailed since 2024 in a sprawling romance fraud crackdown. The newest names walked off a plane in May and never made it to the curb.
Tamara King and Paul Waln sold 22 Seattle investors a West Seattle apartment deal called Halcyon. When the ten years were up, the money was gone and the excuse was a lie about a sick contractor.
Jarrell Curne told a bank his entertainment company had a hundred employees and a $1.5 million payroll. It had neither. The wire cleared in forty-eight hours, and the federal government just sentenced him for what came after.
Daniella Vasquez worked the books at a Shavano Park homebuilder and a second San Antonio employer. Between May 2021 and September 2022 she moved $759,235.74 to herself and her husband, hiding the wires behind labels that looked like tax payments. On May 13, 2026, a federal judge gave her 51 months and called her lucky.
Federal prosecutors say a sitting New York Supreme Court justice let his name sit on a bank account two investors believed was an escrow. The wire cleared. The money moved. Only a fraction came home.
Roody Metelus ran a tax shop in Dania Beach. The government says he turned wage earners into fake sole proprietors and skimmed a percentage off every PPP loan that cleared. He pleaded guilty last week.
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.
Christopher Delgado told a television camera he failed his investors. The federal complaint says he ran a three-year crypto Ponzi that drained more than 2,000 people while he bought houses, watches, and silence. The math of what remained tells the rest.
Arsen Lusher told more than twenty investors he ran a profitable trucking company with contracts at major retailers. Federal prosecutors say the trucks were a story, the returns were other people's money, and the falsified bank statements were the last room of the house before it came down.
A federal indictment unsealed in Chicago accuses an Orland Park freight company owner of billing for shipments that never happened and inflating bakery franchises before selling them. The receipts are parked in his garage.
Aivaras Zigmantas was sentenced May 6 to five years in federal prison for stealing $10.1 million in interstate cargo without breaking a single lock. He used aliases, fake websites, and a load board that takes strangers at their word.
Christopher Knight Lopez ran a Houston investment shop for nearly ten years on forged bank letters and a fictional $2 billion in Treasury bonds. On May 7, 2026, a federal judge called it the most offensive white-collar crime he had seen.
Poul Thorsen vanished in 2011 with a federal indictment trailing him and a Harley, a house, and a stack of forged invoices in his wake. On Thursday, May 8, 2026, U.S. Air Marshals walked him into Atlanta.
Tina Louise Yager prepared taxes at a Jackson-Hewitt in Republic, Missouri. Federal prosecutors say she filed returns her clients never authorized and routed the refunds to herself. The total was small. The mechanism was not.
Christopher Knight Lopez ran a fraudulent investment shop out of Katy, Texas for nearly ten years, forging bank letters and selling access to $2 billion in Treasury bonds that did not exist. On May 7, 2026, a federal judge called it the worst white-collar crime he had seen from the bench.
A Rochester man joins the long line of defendants ordered to repay millions in the largest pandemic fraud in American history. The meals were on paper. The money was not.
Two brothers from Ohio invented a fake Emirati royal house, a fake hedge fund, and a fake claim on a historic industrial complex. A federal judge in Cleveland just gave them a combined forty-seven years.