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Fraudster Pretended to Be Trump-Vance Official to Take $250K in Crypto, DOJ States

Fraudster Pretended to Be Trump-Vance Official to Take $250K in Crypto, DOJ States

Simply put Nigerian nationals are reportedly pretending to be officials from Trump Vance’s Inaugural Committee, using fake emails to swindle $250,000 in Ethereum-based USDT. Experts suggest that AI and DeepFake technology could serve as effective tools against such fraud, but it requires a collaborative approach to tackle the growing scale and sophistication of these schemes. […]

Goldman Sachs calls for prison sentence for 1MDB fraudster Timothy Leissner

Goldman Sachs has urged a Brooklyn federal judge to impose a severe penalty on their former partner, who previously faced a hefty fine linked to a foreign bribery scandal involving the investment bank. In court on Thursday, the bank’s leading attorney targeted U.S. District Judge Margo Brody, criticizing Timothy Reissner, a 53-year-old banker originally from […]

New Jersey deli fraudster gets six months in prison for $100 million scheme

A father and son involved in a fraudulent scheme worth $100 million related to a New Jersey deli have pleaded guilty and received prison sentences. On Tuesday, Peter Coker Sr., aged 82, was sentenced to six months in prison followed by six months of home detention. He was also ordered to pay a $500,000 fine […]

Jailed fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried rips Dems, warms to Trump

Sam Bankmanfried tore the Biden administration for the “politicization” of the Justice Department and expressed sympathy for President Donald Trump in a recent prison interview. The disgraceful FTX fraudster, a leading Democrat financial backer, is sentenced to 25 years after being convicted of using client funds to make a dangerous bet in a hedge fund […]

CEO fraudster Elizabeth Holmes says lockup is ‘hell’ in first prison interview

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the infamous Terranos, once celebrated as the first woman's homemade billionaire, broke her silence in her first interview from a federal prison in Texas. Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in November 2022 for fraud and conspiracy, scamming hundreds of millions of dollars investors by lying to raise money for […]

Prosecutor who helped but FTX fraudster Bankman-Fried in jail named interim Manhattan US Attorney

The veteran prosecutor who helped convict crypto fraudster Sam Bankman Freed has been named acting Manhattan federal prosecutor, taking over Mayor Eric Adams' corruption case and other high-profile investigations. Daniel Sassoon, who earlier in his career served as law clerk to conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, was appointed to the powerful position Monday […]