Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes

  • James Pavlounis, Social Security Fraud, California 2018

    James Pavlounis, Social Security Fraud, California 2018

    New Rochelle con man James Pavlounis is trading in car keys for prison bars after being sentenced to 37 months behind bars for a brazen, decade-long scheme to defraud the Social Security system and evade taxes. The 53-year-old owner of Select Parking Systems wasn’t just providing a service; he was running a sophisticated operation built…

  • Luciano Schipelliti, Securities Fraud, Massachusetts 2023

    Luciano Schipelliti, Securities Fraud, Massachusetts 2023

    Luciano Schipelliti, a 28-year-old Haverhill resident, is facing a potential decade-plus prison sentence after agreeing to plead guilty to defrauding investors out of $700,000 through two spectacularly failed cryptocurrency investment funds. The scheme, built on lies and fueled by reckless trading, left a trail of ruined finances and shattered trust, according to federal prosecutors. Schipelliti…

  • Gerardo Heriberto Nuñez Nuñez, Grandparent Scam Laundering, Massachusetts 2023

    Gerardo Heriberto Nuñez Nuñez, Grandparent Scam Laundering, Massachusetts 2023

    BOSTON – A 42-year-old Dominican national is cooling his heels in a Massachusetts jail cell today, accused of being a key cog in a ruthless, international scam that preyed on the most vulnerable Americans – the elderly. Gerardo Heriberto Nuñez Nuñez arrived in Boston on March 18, 2026, extradited from the Dominican Republic to face…

  • Gerardo Heriberto Nuñez Nuñez, Grandparent Scam and Money Laundering, Massachusetts 2023

    Gerardo Heriberto Nuñez Nuñez, Grandparent Scam and Money Laundering, Massachusetts 2023

    Boston – A Dominican Republic national is cooling his heels in a Massachusetts jail cell after federal authorities finally brought him to account for his role in a sprawling, heartless fraud that bilked over $5 million from vulnerable elderly Americans. Gerardo Heriberto Nuñez Nuñez, 42, faces decades behind bars if convicted of laundering the proceeds…

  • David Quinones, Wire Fraud, Illinois 2023

    David Quinones, Wire Fraud, Illinois 2023

    Chicago – David Quinones, 45, will spend the next four years and four months behind bars for systematically defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. The feds sentenced Quinones yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a single count of federal wire fraud, a charge stemming from a brazen, five-year scheme…

  • Christopher Robert Metsos, Conspiracy to Act as an, New York 2026

    Christopher Robert Metsos, Conspiracy to Act as an, New York 2026

    ⚠️ WARNING: SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AN ESCAPE RISK The ghost they call Christopher Metsos has been slipping through shadows for nearly two decades. Wanted by the FBI, this Canadian national is accused of acting as an unregistered agent for a foreign power, a quiet betrayal masked by a decade of alleged money laundering. The Feds…

  • Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, Conspiring to Commit, California 2026

    Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, Conspiring to Commit, California 2026

    ⚠️ WARNING: SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AN INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT RISK The digital ghosts are the hardest to catch. Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, a name whispered in the back rooms of cybersecurity firms and federal agencies, is one of those ghosts. He’s wanted by the FBI, and the charges read like a roadmap of modern malice: computer fraud,…

  • Cho Chung Pom, Conspiracy to Violate, Missouri 2026

    Cho Chung Pom, Conspiracy to Violate, Missouri 2026

    The rain slicked the streets of St. Louis, mirroring the grime clinging to this case. Cho Chung Pom. The name itself feels foreign, a cold wind blowing in from a nation shrouded in secrets. Federal warrants were cut in December, but this isn’t some two-bit hustler looking at a few years. Pom is accused of…

  • Qian Chuan, Racketeering Conspiracy, Washington D.C. 2026

    Qian Chuan, Racketeering Conspiracy, Washington D.C. 2026

    The rain slicked the monuments of D.C., mirroring the digital grime Qian Chuan leaves in his wake. This isn’t your average street thug, folks. This is a ghost in the machine, a phantom operative linked to APT 41, a Chinese hacking collective known as Barium. The Feds finally slapped his name on the Most Wanted…

  • Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, Conspiracy to Defraud, Washington D.C. 2026

    Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, Conspiracy to Defraud, Washington D.C. 2026

    ⚠️ WARNING: SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AN INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT RISK The rain slicked the monuments of D.C., mirroring the grime clinging to this case. Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin. The name rolls off the tongue like a threat, and for good reason. The FBI’s been hunting this ghost for years, a shadowy figure accused of a calculated assault…