Category: White Collar Crime
John Smith, Tax Evasion, Texas 2020
⏱ 2 min read A Houston tax prep shop owner allegedly cooked the books for her clients, filing fake tax returns that swindled the IRS out of thousands. Bobbie Zermeno, aka Roberta Villarreal, made a living charging hundreds per return, then lied about business losses and car mileage to inflate refunds. From 2017 to 2022,…
John Doe, Mail Theft, California 2022
⏱ 3 min read A Boston federal court just wrapped up the case of Michael Murray, a 38-year-old former USPS postal clerk who made off with $8,553 in mail and government funds. Murray worked at the Beach Street Post Office in Revere and the Melrose Post Office. Between September 2022 and July 2023, Murray used…
John Doe, PPP Loan Fraud, California 2020
⏱ 2 min read Mutoh America Inc., a Phoenix-based printing manufacturer, got caught red-handed in a brazen PPP loan scam. The company’s greed landed it a $900,000 fine for faking its employee count to secure a second-draw loan. According to the settlement, Mutoh had over 300 employees at the time of the loan application, far…
John Smith, COVID Relief Fund Embezzlement, California 2020
⏱ 3 min read Two Atlanta scammers got away with millions in COVID-19 relief funds, ripping off thousands of innocent victims in the process. Ikponmwosa Erhinmwinrose, 39, and Nyerhovwo Presley Agbure, 34, used stolen identities to apply for over $90 million in government benefits, netting a whopping $7.6 million. The duo and their crew used…
Sarah Johnson, Embezzlement, New York 2020
⏱ 3 min read A 49-year-old personal assistant from Queens, NY, Catalina Corona, swindled nearly $10 million from her elderly employers in a brazen Long Island, NY, wire fraud scheme that spanned seven years. Between 2017 and 2024, Corona deposited hundreds of checks from her victims’ bank accounts without their knowledge or consent, using the…
Austin School Bookkeeper, Embezzlement, Texas 2020
⏱ 2 min read Austin school bookkeeper Alysa Dietz Gisser, 56, swindled over $1 million from a non-profit private school in Austin, Texas, between 2018 and 2021. Gisser, who worked as a bookkeeper and accountant for the school, used her consulting business’s PayPal account to misdirect funds from parents’ tuition payments. She also altered the…
Amira Medunjanin, Naturalization Fraud, Lexington KY 2023
A West Virginia woman who committed torture and war crimes in Bosnia was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison for naturalization fraud based on lies about her prior criminal conduct to obtain U.S. citizenship. Amira Medunjanin, 55, of Charleston, West Virginia, was a naturalized U.S. citizen from Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to court documents,…
Northern Iowa Leadership Team Announced
⏱ 2 min read U.S. Attorney Leif Olson is shaking up the leadership in Northern Iowa, naming a new team to oversee federal prosecutions in the region. At the helm is Matthew Cole, a veteran of the U.S. Attorney’s Office since 1999, who’s been tapped as First Assistant U.S. Attorney. Cole’s resume is a laundry…
John Doe, Bank Fraud, California 2022
⏱ 4 min read A Montgomery woman’s brazen scheme to steal mail and cash in on the checks it contained has landed her in the joint for 10 years. Rhashema Shackleford, 37, orchestrated a massive bank fraud operation that netted hundreds of thousands in ill-gotten gains. Between August 2022 and June 2023, she and her…
Victoria M. Tam, Counterfeit Botox Distribution, Florida 2022
⏱ 2 min read A Stoughton, Mass., woman injected hundreds of clients with fake Botox and dermal fillers, raking in over $1 million in the process. Rebecca Fadanelli, 40, the owner of Skin Beaute Med Spa with locations in Randolph and South Easton, Mass., imported counterfeit Botox, Sculptra and Juvéderm from China and Brazil and…
