CONFRAUD

wire fraud

White-Collar Crime

Kevin L. Lawrence: $91.6M Znetix Stock Fraud Scheme

Kevin L. Lawrence sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay $91.6M in restitution for his role in the Znetix stock fraud scheme involving securities fraud.

Victoria Chase
Ponzi Schemes

Stafford Y.L. Mew's $10M Prime-Bank Fraud Scheme

Stafford Y.L. Mew and four co-defendants sentenced in Western District of Washington for $10 million prime-bank fraud scheme involving wire fraud and money laundering.

Daniel Reeves
White-Collar Crime

Alfred M. Lemcke Sentenced for $843K Investment Fraud Scheme

Alfred M. Lemcke sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $843,470 in restitution for defrauding investment clients in Massachusetts.

Victoria Chase
Con Artists

Leslie Chinedu Mba's $4M Romance Scam and Immigration Fraud

A Houston man orchestrated a $4 million romance scam while attempting to stay in the U.S. through fraudulent marriages.

Maria Santos
White-Collar Crime

Josh Lintz: The $200,000-a-Year COO Who Allegedly Built a $12 Million Company on Stolen Trade Secrets

Twenty-two months into a $200,000-a-year job as Chief Operating Officer of a thriving La Jolla software company, Joshua Paul Lintz allegedly began dismantling it from the inside -- downloading thousands of confidential files, deleting 130 client projects, and incorporating a competing company that would generate $12 million in its first year using the stolen assets.

Nathan Pierce
White-Collar Crime

Scott Carpenter Sued in Corrupt Organizations Scheme: The Newport Beach Attorney Accused of Weaponizing the Legal System

A federal RICO complaint accuses Newport Beach attorney Scott R. Carpenter of weaponizing the legal system itself -- seizing a company's bank account through fraudulent wire communications, forging stock certificates for a company that had no stock, assembling perjured declarations, and using the threat of deportation to coerce a settlement from a foreign-born entrepreneur.

Daniel Reeves
White-Collar Crime

Tyler Brandon Davis Named Principal Organizer in $75 Million RICO Lawsuit Over Tech Company Takeover

A 185-page federal RICO complaint names Tyler Brandon Davis of Folsom, California as the principal organizer of an eight-year criminal enterprise that allegedly seized a thriving software company through wire fraud, identity theft, and trade secret theft -- a scheme involving shell companies, corrupted attorneys, and $75 million in fraudulent transactions.

Victoria Chase