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Fraudster Real Estate Investor Who Stole From Elderly Sentenced to 181 Months

Brett Barber, 45, of Costa Mesa, Calif., was sentenced to 181 months in prison for running fraudulent investment schemes in which most of the victims were elderly citizens. Barber co-owned BNZ Capital One and National American Capital, both based in Newport Beach, Calif.

Report Strahinja Nikolić

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Identity Theft

Kosovo National Arrested and Charged with Running Online Marketplace for Stolen ID, Financial Information

Liridon Masurica, a 33-year-old Kosovo native, was indicted by the U.S. and arrested by the authorities in Kosovo after he was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and five counts of fraudulent use of unauthorized access devices.

Report Strahinja Nikolić

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Cocaine Cops Sentenced to Four Years

Two Columbus, Ohio, police officers have been sentenced to four years in prison for their part in a scheme to sell stolen cocaine.

Report Jessika Saunders

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High School Dean of Students Allegedly Ran a Cocaine Ring on the Side

Lavante Wiggins, 30, the Dean of Students at Pittsfield High School and Theodore Warren, aka Monty, 42, both from Pittsfield, Mass., were arrested on Dec. 11 on charges of conspiracy and trafficking cocaine in Western Massachusetts, according to a DOJ press release.

Report Jessika Saunders

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Embezzlement

California CFO Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $1.3 Million From Employers Via Fraudulent Nonprofit Account

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.

Report Jessika Saunders

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Misrepresentation

Chinese Man Allegedly Illegally Exported DOD Data, Illegally Imported Rare Earth Materials

A man allegedly lied to two U.S. defense contracting companies by concealing that the products he sold to them from his American-based company were repacked goods from the China-based company he owned.

Report Jessika Saunders

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Identity Theft

Feds: North Korean IT Workers Steal Money to Siphon Back to Homeland

Fourteen people alleged to be North Korean nationals were indicted on Dec. 11 on charges of identity theft, wire fraud and money laundering in a years-long conspiracy to violate U.S. Sanctions, according to a DOJ press release.

Report Jessika Saunders

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Bribery

American Multinational Company Fined $122 Million for Bribing South African Officials

McKinsey Africa, a company that operates as a wholly owned and controlled subsidiary of international consulting firm McKinsey & Company Inc., will pay more than $122 million to resolve an investigation by the Justice Department into a scheme to pay bribes to government officials in South Africa between 2012 and 2016.

Report Strahinja Nikolić

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Embezzlement

Accountant and Sister Embezzled $1.5 Million from Employer

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.

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Misrepresentation

Man Convicted of Counterfeiting Money… Again

Jacob R. Kirkley, a 48-year-old man from Bismarck, Ill., was found guilty on Dec. 4 of five counts of counterfeiting U.S. currency and selling and possessing counterfeit U.S. currency, according to a Justice Department press release.

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Financial Gains

White Supremacist Florida Man Sentenced for Meth and Guns

A federal district judge has sentenced Danny Ray Boree, 39, of Keystone Heights, Fla., to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to a Justice Department press release.

Report Matthew Koelher

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Embezzlement

Investment Advisor Steals $2.1 Million from Clients

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 […]

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Fraudster Real Estate Investor Who Stole From Elderly Sentenced to 181 Months

Kosovo National Arrested and Charged with Running Online Marketplace for Stolen ID, Financial Information

Cocaine Cops Sentenced to Four Years

High School Dean of Students Allegedly Ran a Cocaine Ring on the Side

California CFO Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $1.3 Million From Employers Via Fraudulent Nonprofit Account

Chinese Man Allegedly Illegally Exported DOD Data, Illegally Imported Rare Earth Materials

Feds: North Korean IT Workers Steal Money to Siphon Back to Homeland

American Multinational Company Fined $122 Million for Bribing South African Officials

Accountant and Sister Embezzled $1.5 Million from Employer

Man Convicted of Counterfeiting Money… Again

White Supremacist Florida Man Sentenced for Meth and Guns

Investment Advisor Steals $2.1 Million from Clients

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