Three women who run Los Angeles County stores are the main focus of an investigation that led to charges against 17 people who allegedly took part in the misuse of food stamp benefits. Maria Teresa Ramirez, 37, her 54-year-old mother Maria Magdalena Salgado, and 37-year-old Yessica Raquel Garay each reportedly…
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Model Conned Half a Million Dollars From Elderly Man
A well-to-do South Carolina man has accused a woman that he believed he was dating for the last decade of exploiting his emotions in order to extort $500,000 from him. 75-year-old Diarmuid Hogan was visiting New York City in 2009 when he met a 23-year-old woman who was employed as…
Man Accused of Fraud Denies Staging Slip and Fall
A New Jersey contractor was accused of insurance fraud after a surveillance camera allegedly revealed that he had purposely faked it when he slipped on ice and fell on the ground before filing the claim. 57-year-old Alexander Goldinsky is an independent contractor who was recently hired to provide his services…
Woman Scammed Donations Intended for Holy Fire Crews
A San Juan Capistrano woman who said she was married to a firefighter started a fundraiser that was claimed to be support for active fire crews has been accused of accepting thousands of dollars in donations that she allegedly intended to keep for herself. In August, posts on several social…
Suspects of Voter Fraud Bribed Skid Row Homeless
After allegations that they participated in a voter fraud scheme, nine people are being accused of enticing homeless people with goods in order to get them to falsify signatures. When suspicions regarding fraudulent signature collection on petitions containing ballot measures and voter registration cards during the 2016 and 2018 elections…
Fraud Suspects Used Child’s Cancer Campaign for Fundraising
Three people have been accused of allegedly accepting money from donors after claiming they were family members of a little girl with cancer, and it was discovered that they allegedly have no relation to the child or the fundraising efforts for her recovery. The family of a 6-year-old girl named…
Dealerships Lost Thousands on Leased Cars Due to Hacked Odometers
A man has been charged with many theft-related felonies after the authorities became suspicious of his business activities and allege that he offered to turn back the mileage on the odometers of cars for customers leasing them from dealerships. For the past year and a half, a man has allegedly…
Suspected Scammers Scored Hundreds of Free Flights
Three people are being accused of creating fake airline employee identification cards in order to fly without having to buy tickets. In early May of 2017, a man allegedly tried to take a flight out of Los Angeles International Airport on Spirit Airlines and when he was asked for identification…
Roofing Company Collected Payments for Jobs Never Done
The owner of a North Carolina roofing company is under suspicion of fraud after he allegedly accepted payment from nine different homes for roofing work that he never fulfilled. 34-year-old Ricardo Romero is the owner of Above and Beyond Roofing in Raleigh, NC. Over the past year his company has…
Owner of Auto Broker Lot Arrested for Tax Evasion and Theft
36-year-old James Hensley was the owner and president of Knoxville Auto Brokers in Knoxville, Tennessee, from 2012 until the day he shut his business down last April. When Hensley closed his doors for good he allegedly left some of the clients of his establishment with financial problems because he accepted…