Embezzlement
Tony Archuleta-Perkins, 48, formerly from San Francisco but currently living in Palm Springs, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and money laundering on Dec. 11, according to a DOJ Press Release. The crimes were related to a years-long embezzlement scheme that cost Archuleta-Perkins’ former employers $1.3 million.
On Dec. 5, a federal court sentenced Margaret Ward Heilman, 66, of Darlington County, S.C., and her sister Katherine Ward Gray, 60, of Florence County, S.C., to prison for their involvement in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to a Justice Department press release.
Kristi Margaret Berge, the 48-year-old founder and CEO of Keep Safe Investments, aka KSI Financial, a planning and investment services firm, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and two years of supervised release for her role in a wire fraud scheme in which millions of client investment funds were misappropriated, according to the […]
Joshua Paul Armbrust, a 44-year-old man from Orr, Minn., was indicted for an illegal so-called “cryptojacking” scheme that led to significant financial losses, according to a public statement by the Department of Justice.
On Nov. 26, a U.S. district court sentenced Evan Bobzin, a 39-year-old man from Chester, Pa., to 24 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for theft and tax offenses in which he embezzled $2 million, according to a Justice Department press release.
Teresina DeAlmeida, 59, from Warren, N.J., was sentenced to 36 months in prison on Dec. 6 for her part in a scheme to defraud Seton Hall Law School of over a million dollars, according to a DOJ press release. DeAlmedia, her sister Silvia Cardoso, 61, from Warren, N.J., and Rose Martins, 44, from East Hanover, […]
The owner of a property management company stole over one million dollars from over 70 homeowner associations in Virginia.
Brian Logan, 50, an attorney in Frankfort, Ky., pleaded guilty on Nov. 20 to aggravated identity theft, money laundering, wire fraud and bank fraud in a scheme to steal from charities, according to a DOJ press release.
A New York bank manager received a prison sentence for stealing from a customer who was about to die.
A Springfield, Va., has pleaded guilty to a heinous act– stealing money from former prisoners of war.
Sally Lynn Elmore, a 56-year-old woman from Clarkston, Michigan, was sentenced to three years in prison on Oct. 25, according to a Justice Department statement. The sentence comes on the heels of Elmore pleading guilty in July 2024 to one count of wire fraud.
On Oct. 12, Colby Parks, a 65-year-old former lawyer from Seattle, was indicted for twelve counts of wire fraud for allegedly embezzling from a client’s trust account.
Jeffrey A. Royer, 61, from Montrose, Colorado, was indicted on Oct. 17 on charges of participating in a foreign exchange (forex) trading scheme, according to a DOJ press release. He allegedly defrauded his many investors out of over $1 million.
A renowned art advisor Iadmits to scamming clients out of millions of dollars.
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Jarett Robert Lewis, a 44-year-old man from Washington D.C, was arrested on Sept. 5 and charged with embezzling more than $320,000 from a non-profit advocacy organization.
Nothing grinds the gears of law-abiding taxpayers more than a city official stealing nearly a million dollars from the city.
With great power comes great responsibility. One trusted town clerk didn’t learn this lesson as he decided to steal the town’s money he was hired to protect.
If you can’t trust a Health Department employee, who can you trust?
Long-time Des Peres Alderman John Pound was sentenced on Aug. 1 to five years of probation and ordered to repay $292,305 he embezzled from two clients of his property management company from 2006 to mid-2020, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri.
Christopher Adam Jensen-Tanner, a former escrow company owner from Roswell, New Mexico, has been sentenced to 46 months in prison for defrauding his clients, according to a July 29 press release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, New Mexico District.
Nonprofit organizations perform some of the most laudable activities on earth: bringing medicine to the poor, education to the disenfranchised, and micro-loan programs so the impoverished can start their own businesses.
Employees at the Sandia National Laboratories worked unnecessary overtime and changed project codes on official paperwork, an internal Department of Energy audit released on April 1 found.
There’s nothing worse than getting stabbed in the back by one of your own.
