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.
A federal jury convicted Morteza Amiri, a former police officer, of one count of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a scheme to obtain pay raises from the Antioch Police Department, California, by falsely obtaining a university degree.
If you are going to storm the Capitol, filming yourself in the act is a bad idea. The world had a front-row seat to the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol because more than a few participants filmed themselves and others at the event.
Dominique Lasconi Mulamba, a 100-meter sprinter from the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been suspended for using banned substances during the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Almost nine years ago, a supposedly publicly-spirited tennis coach for underprivileged youth took a sexual interest in one of his 13-year-old students.
When Quandelle Joseph was a guard at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, he used his position as a cash cow to provide drugs, cell phones and other contraband to inmates in exchange for bribes totaling over $20,000. The 34-year-old Brooklyn resident pled guilty in January to a charge of accepting bribes.
Mozambique’s former finance minister, 68-year-old Manuel Chang, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Aug. 8 after being convicted of conspiring to commit wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a $2 billion scheme that targeted investors in the United States and other countries.
After eluding authorities for seven years, an Orlando man has been sentenced to almost 5½ years in federal prison for fraud and identity theft, the U.S. Attorney for Central Florida reported in a press release.
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