VIRGINIA BEACH VA January 27 2019 A Virginia Beach woman who went to pick up a prescription for a pain medication says she ended up in jail instead. Lisa Wynkoop, 35, claims in court documents that she was held for several hours after employees of a Walgreens accused her of prescription drug fraud. She filed […]
SAN FRANCISCO CA January 4 2019 Police arrested two women last week as they were allegedly trying to flee to China after extorting members of San Francisco’s Chinese community in blessing scams, police said Monday. Officers apprehended the pair, identified as 51-year-old Mudi Wu and 45-year-old Fuxi Dai, at Los Angeles International Airport on Dec. […]
LAKELAND FL December 31 2018 — Julian Cox works as a security guard, but he had no defense for the growing problem of gift card scamming. The Lakeland man recently purchased $1,100 in Amazon gift cards at three area retail outlets. They were meant to be Christmas gifts for his children and grandchildren. As a […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn .December 21 2018 – A Tennessee attorney is facing more than 20 years in prison for years-long schemes that allowed him to steal $1.3 million, including $1.1 million from the daughter of a fallen LEO, the Tennessean reports. Attorney Jacki Lynn Garton, 54, has been charged with aggravated identity theft, wire fraud and tax […]
Fresno CA December 12 2018 A security firm employee pleaded guilty Monday in a scheme to supply unqualified armed guards to the IRS in Fresno. Scott T. Carlton, 49, of Visalia was an employee of E&A Protective Services, which had a government contract to supply 24-hour-a-day armed security to the IRS campus in Fresno. When […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. November 29 2018— Court records say a South Carolina prosecutor and Air National Guard member is accused of embezzling more than $7,000 in Guard funds. News outlets report federal prosecutors make the allegations against 5th Circuit Solicitor Dan Johnson in records released Monday. Prosecutors say Johnson between 2016-17 accepted reimbursements from the Guard […]
BOSTON MA November 19 2018 – A former Senior Vice President at Bank of America and her husband were sentenced in federal court in Boston for embezzling more than $2.7 million from the bank using fraudulent donations to non-profit organizations. Palestine Ace, a/k/a Pam Ace, 45, a former Senior Vice President of Bank of America’s Global […]
LOS ANGELES CA October 12 2018 A Santa Clarita accountant has been charged with embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from the Girl Scouts and a cancer center over the period of four years. Patricia Cascione, 52, a certified public accountant, was charged Wednesday with two felony counts of embezzlement by a public or private officer. […]
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 9, 2018 The National Retail Federation (NRF) found that merchandise returns climbed from 10.2% in 2015 to 11.3% last year,(1) though Shopify Plus reports eCommerce returns are as high as 20%.(2) NRF data also revealed that fraudulent returns—such as returns of stolen merchandise, wearing and then returning items, and use of counterfeit receipts—rose […]
Raleigh NC October 8 2018 Two men face years in prison over a credit card scheme that involved multiple Triangle-area Walmart stores. Abdoulaie Francis Lowe Nicolas of Raleigh and Salifu Jallow of Georgia were sentenced to two years and five years, respectively, for their role in what the feds have described as a complex counterfeit operation […]