A man has admitted to stealing over $85,000 from people’s bank accounts on the East Coast. Scott Bagley of Bangor, Maine, has pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to impersonate legitimate bank account holders to obtain money from their accounts, says the U.S. Department of Justice. The scheme involved accessing and draining funds from multiple […]
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A man in Massachusetts is heading to prison for bank fraud involving the theft of over $700,000 in U.S. Treasury checks. Nnamdi Opara, 31, of Woburn, pleaded guilty to two counts of bank fraud and five counts of money laundering, says the U.S. Department of Justice. Opara “wrongfully obtained” two Treasury checks issued to a […]
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A former manager at First Commonwealth Bank is accused of stealing more than $31,000 from dead customers’ accounts in the span of just one month. Jeri Mains, who worked at the bank’s Westmoreland County Derry Township branch in Pennsylvania, allegedly began stealing on April 1st after withdrawing more than $4,500 in cash from a dead […]
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A jury has found a former Wells Fargo employee in Mesa, Arizona guilty of embezzling $655,000 from the bank. The U.S. Department of Justice says Brooke McDonough, formerly known as Brooke Taylor, has been sentenced to 48 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Court documents show prosecutors accused the 35 year-old […]
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A couple in Washington state has admitted to stealing nearly $229,000 from banks and their customers. According to the DOJ, Emily Vranic and co-defendant Heather Marquis stole mail and used personal identifying information to take over and drain victim bank accounts while running up credit cards. “Once they had fully taken over a stolen identity, […]
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A California man is facing federal charges for allegedly defrauding a bank out of nearly $100 million. The U.S. Department of Justice says 44-year-old Mahender Makhijani of Corona del Mar orchestrated a scheme involving manipulated title policies and shell companies. Prosecutors allege he falsified title insurance records, concealed true lien positions and used a network of […]
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A Wells Fargo employee abused his inside position to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California says Tamim Haidar drained more than $800,000 from the bank while working as an assistant branch manager at the […]
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A federal fraud case led to major crypto seizures after prosecutors said nearly $100 million moved through bank accounts and exchanges. Authorities seized some $7.1 million from digital wallets tied to the scheme, while prosecutors separately seek $24,707,031 in restitution. Crypto Seizures Show How Fraud Proceeds Moved Through Digital Markets Millions of dollars in cryptocurrency […]
