Category: US News
Iftekhar Latif Nieon, Wire Fraud Conspiracy, New York 2025
⏱ 2 min read In a shocking case of elder abuse, Iftekhar Latif Nieon, a 24-year-old Bangladeshi man, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in Western New York. The scheme, which unfolded in 2025, targeted three victims, including a 68-year-old woman and a 73-year-old man, and involved fake tech support and credit card…
Daniel Keith McDougal, Counterfeit U.S. Treasury Check, Wyoming 2023
⏱ 2 min read Daniel Keith McDougal, a 37-year-old from Florida, traveled to Wyoming in January 2023 to pull off a brazen scam. Along with accomplice Kennard Bouk, McDougal attempted to pass a counterfeit U.S. Treasury check valued at $560,625 at a bank in Cheyenne. The motives behind the scam are unclear, but the consequences…
Candia V. Williams, Tax Refund Fraud, Florida 2023
⏱ 2 min read Candia V. Williams, a Jacksonville woman, has been charged with conspiring to submit false claims and submitting false claims to the United States government. Williams, also known as Wisdom Shield El, allegedly caused at least four fraudulent tax returns to be submitted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seeking over $130…
Alexander Telewoda, Mail Theft, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 3 min read Alexander Telewoda, 26, of Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, was part of a conspiracy that stole thousands of US Treasury checks worth over $84 million from the USPS Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center between June 2023 and September 2024. Telewoda and his co-conspirators, including Saahir Irby and Tauheed Tucker, who worked as USPS…
Eric Kendrie Shuler, Bank and Wire Fraud, Alabama 2024
⏱ 2 min read Eric Kendrie Shuler, a 34-year-old from Brooklyn, New York, and his accomplice, Kyara Ivelisse Rosario-Berenguer, 30, from Reading, Pennsylvania, pulled off a brazen debit card scheme in Alabama’s River Region, making off with over $214,000. The scam involved illegally obtaining debit cards and associated account information from a local credit union,…
Kenneth Thom, Investment Adviser Fraud, New York 2026
⏱ 2 min read Kenneth Thom, a suspended broker, scammed 66 social media followers in New York, promising lucrative investment returns. Between late 2023 and March 2025, Thom, aka K$ or K Money, raised nearly $800,000 from his victims, claiming he would manage their investments and share the profits. Instead, he spent most of the…
Mo Yuong Kang, Wire Fraud, Massachusetts 2026
⏱ 2 min read A former U.S. Department of Labor employee, Mo Yuong Kang, scammed over $40,000 in pandemic unemployment assistance benefits in Massachusetts. Kang, 51, from Woburn and Dracut, worked as an Industrial Hygienist with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration from 2016 to 2023. In 2020 and 2021, while earning over $85,000 annually,…
Herbert Leon Kimble, Healthcare Fraud and Failure to Appear, South Carolina 2026
⏱ 2 min read Herbert Leon Kimble, a 60-year-old international fugitive, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and failure to appear in a South Carolina federal court. Kimble was involved in a massive $1.2 billion telemedicine and durable medical equipment scheme that was uncovered in 2019. He fled to the Philippines…
Luciano Schipelliti, Wire Fraud, Massachusetts 2026
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Jonathan Lawrence Eubanks, Federal Crop Insurance Application Falsification, Alabama 2026
⏱ 2 min read Jonathan Lawrence Eubanks, a 46-year-old insurance agent from Slocomb, Alabama, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for falsifying a federal crop insurance application. On August 11, 2026, Eubanks was found guilty of making a false statement to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) or a company insured by…
