Tag: DOJ
Milwaukee Mom Swindled Medicaid for $2.3M
⏱ 3 min read Milwaukee mom Markita Barnes, 33, is starting a decade-plus stretch in federal prison after a jury convicted her of systematically looting Wisconsin’s Medicaid program. Barnes ran a prenatal care coordination company in Milwaukee and siphoned off a staggering $2,361,799.17 meant to help at-risk pregnant women and mothers with young children. The…
SC Woman Admits Filming Child Abuse
⏱ 2 min read Florence, South Carolina. Alaina Ny’sha Thomas, 24, admitted in federal court today she didn’t just have child pornography – she made it. Thomas pleaded guilty to producing child sexual abuse material, meaning she actively filmed the abuse of minors. The details are shielded, as they always are in these cases, but…
Bankster Nails $25M Venezuela Scam
⏱ 2 min read Ex-Nodus International Bank CEO, whose name is being withheld pending sentencing, is looking at serious time after admitting to a $24.9 million wire fraud. Federal prosecutors in Alabama say the scheme stretched across the country, and brazenly blew holes in U.S. sanctions against Venezuela. The grift involved diverting funds and hiding…
Bank CEO Admits $25M Scam
⏱ 2 min read A Puerto Rican banking executive just torched his career – and potentially his life. Former Nodus International Bank CEO admitted today to running a $24.9 million wire fraud and sanctions evasion scheme, right here in the Middle District of Alabama. Prosecutors say he and his crew used fake IDs and bogus…
Harvard Faces DOJ Over Campus Hate
⏱ 2 min read Harvard University is in the crosshairs of the Justice Department. The DOJ filed a civil rights lawsuit today in Illinois’ Southern District, accusing the Ivy League school of fostering a systemic pattern of antisemitic harassment and discrimination against its Jewish and Israeli students. It’s not isolated incidents, say sources – it’s…
WV Biz Owner Cashed In on COVID Chaos
⏱ 2 min read Bradley Temple, 48, formerly of Wheeling, West Virginia, is facing years in federal prison after copping to ripping off nearly $300,000 in COVID-19 relief money. Temple, now living in Delray Beach, Florida, pled guilty in Wyoming federal court this week to unlawful money transactions. The feds say he systematically siphoned funds…
Wheeling Grifter Scoops $300K in COVID Funds
⏱ 2 min read Bradley Temple, 48, a former Wheeling, West Virginia business owner now living in Delray Beach, Florida, just confessed to ripping off nearly $300,000 in COVID-19 relief money. The scheme unfolded sometime during the pandemic, as businesses were desperately seeking aid, and Temple allegedly helped himself to funds he wasn’t entitled to.…
Wheeling CEO Nabbed in $300K COVID Scam
⏱ 2 min read Bradley Temple, 48, the former CEO of a Wheeling, Alabama business, copped a plea this week to a felony charge for ripping off nearly $300,000 in COVID-19 relief funds. The feds say Temple wasn’t using the cash to keep his business afloat, but lining his own pockets. The scheme unfolded sometime…
WV Biz Owner Pilfered $300K in COVID Funds
⏱ 2 min read Bradley Temple, 48, a former Wheeling, West Virginia business owner, just confessed to treating nearly $300,000 in COVID-19 relief funds like a personal piggy bank. He pled guilty today in federal court to unlawful money transactions, admitting he didn’t use a cent of the money for its intended purpose. The scheme…
San Antonio Advisor Ran $2.5M Scam
⏱ 3 min read San Antonio financial advisor Brooklynn Chandler Willy, 46, admitted in federal court Thursday to running a classic Ponzi scheme that ripped off investors for at least $2.5 million. Willy, operating Texas Financial Advisory (TFA) and Chandler Capital Holdings, wasn’t building fortunes—she was building a house of cards with other people’s money,…
