Tag: financial crimes
Alabama Advisor Ran $2M Ponzi
⏱ 2 min read Brooklynn Chandler Willy, a financial advisor operating in Alabama, confessed today to running a $2 million Ponzi scheme that left investors scrambling for cash. The fraud unfolded over an unspecified period in the Middle District of Alabama, with Willy using new money to pay off old investors while skimming off the…
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.…
Pandemic Funds Pilfered: Vet Gets 2 Years
⏱ 3 min read A former Navy member and reservist is heading to federal prison after bilking the government out of pandemic relief money. Tiara Jenee Bryant, 36, was sentenced to two years in Norfolk, Virginia, after pleading guilty to fraud related to the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. The scam unfolded in the…
Greer PPP Crook Gets 6+ Years
⏱ 3 min read Jonathan Wade Sumter, 54, is going back to the slammer after a federal judge hit him with over six years for a brazen scheme to steal over $1.8 million in Covid-19 relief funds. The scam, unfolding between June 2020 and January 2022, involved bogus applications for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and…
Old Man Rips Off Troops: Guilty!
⏱ 3 min read Donald Smith, 75, of Pittsburgh, is staring down a long stretch after a federal jury slammed him with guilty verdicts yesterday. The old man wasn’t just scamming any chumps – he was ripping off the U.S. military, pocketing over a million bucks meant for gear headed to the front lines. The…
Lehigh Valley Con Man Gets a Year
⏱ 3 min read Chinedu Ekuma, 45, of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, is trading sidewalks for cell blocks after getting 12 months and a day in federal prison. The sentence, handed down yesterday by Judge John M. Gallagher, is the result of a cold-blooded scheme that bled nearly $2 million from victims between August 2020 and March…
Loan Shark Lands 5.5 Years in Federal Pen
⏱ 3 min read Frank Hamilton, 55, of Simi Valley, California, is facing 5.5 years in federal prison after a Philly judge sentenced him yesterday for orchestrating a multi-million dollar loan fraud. Hamilton ran a scheme that skimmed over $6 million from banks, lenders, and the Small Business Administration (SBA), stretching from pre-pandemic loans all…
Art Hustle: Medicare Bilked
⏱ 3 min read Irina Segal, the woman behind Bucks County’s Segal Arts, just cut a check for $200,000 to settle federal charges that she was running a Medicare scam. For an unspecified period, Segal allegedly billed the program for bogus occupational therapy – really just group art classes at assisted living facilities in Pennsylvania…
Tax Ghost Nabbed: $2.1M Fraud
⏱ 3 min read Tracey Hernandez, 39, of Burlington, North Carolina, is trading her tax prep software for a federal prison jumpsuit. The IRS-CI busted Hernandez for a brazen $2.1 million tax fraud, and a judge handed down a 25-month sentence today. She ran the scheme in 2021 and 2022, filing hundreds of bogus tax…
