Category: White Collar Crime
Chad Hoppe, Fentanyl and Dilaudid Diversion, Iowa 2026
⏱ 2 min read Chad Hoppe, a 49-year-old former registered nurse from LeMars, Iowa, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for diverting large quantities of fentanyl and dilaudid. Between May 2024 and March 2025, Hoppe, who was working as a licensed nurse, stole the controlled substances for personal use and falsified medical records…
Omar Barron, Employment Tax Evasion, Pennsylvania 2024
⏱ 2 min read Omar Barron, 49, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 12 months plus one day in prison for failing to pay employment taxes for his business, Miracle Steel, Inc. Barron, the owner of the structural steel company, was charged in 2024 with failing to account for and pay over employment taxes…
Jefry Castro, Embezzlement, Massachusetts 2026
⏱ 2 min read Jefry Castro, a 34-year-old bank manager from Lawrence, Massachusetts, has been sentenced to prison for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Citizens Bank branch in Tewksbury. Between May 2024 and August 2025, Castro stole $374,233 from the bank, primarily by taking cash from ATMs and covering his tracks by…
S&K Towing Inc., SCRA Violation, California 2023
⏱ 2 min read S&K Towing Inc., a San Clemente-based towing company, has been caught red-handed violating the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by illegally auctioning off as many as 148 vehicles owned by members of the military in Orange County, California. The company, which had a contract with Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, made…
Brooke Haller, Prescription Forgery, Kansas 2024
⏱ 2 min read A former Kansas City nurse, Brooke Haller, 41, has lost her nursing license and is banned for life from working at hospitals that receive federal funding after forging prescriptions for Percocet and Oxycodone. Haller, who worked as a registered nurse at a Kansas City, Kansas hospital, used a coworker’s prescription pad…
Brady Lum, Embezzlement, Georgia 2024
⏱ 2 min read Brady Lum, the former Chief Operating Officer of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to embezzling over $600,000 from the museum. Lum, who served as COO from January 2019 to December 2025, used his position to doctor invoices and approve transactions for personal purchases, including luxury…
Christopher Wargo, Inflating Graduation Statistics, Pennsylvania 2026
⏱ 2 min read American Higher Education Development Corporation (AHED), a for-profit college chain, has agreed to pay over $1 million to resolve allegations of inflating graduation statistics and failing to return federal student aid money at three of its schools: Stautzenberger College in Ohio, Rockford Career College in Illinois, and Madison Media Institute in…
Ty Mauldin, Obtaining Drugs by Fraud, Delaware 2026
⏱ 2 min read Ty Mauldin, a 35-year-old South Dakota man, pleaded guilty to ordering thousands of opioid pills by stealing the identities of medical professionals he worked with in Delaware. Mauldin used his access as a medical biller and credentialer to obtain medical professionals’ licensure information and order oxycodone pills from wholesale pharmaceutical suppliers.…
Marian Charitun, Voting by an Alien in a Federal Election, New Jersey 2022
⏱ 2 min read Marian Charitun, a 62-year-old resident alien from Slovakia, was arrested in New Jersey for voting in a federal election and making false statements while applying for US citizenship. Charitun, who lives in Middlesex County, cast his ballot in the November 8, 2022 midterm election, despite not being a US citizen. He…
Andrew Milgrim, Oxycodone Tampering, Massachusetts 2024
⏱ 2 min read A Gardner man, Andrew Milgrim, 37, has agreed to plead guilty to tampering with oxycodone intended for hospice and memory care patients in a Fitchburg healthcare facility between September 2024 and February 2025. Milgrim diverted oxycodone pills prescribed to patients, consuming some himself and replacing others with allergy and thyroid medications.…
