A 48-year-old man was hit with a grand larceny charge after posing as a Microsoft employee and scamming a victim out of $28,000 in Northern Westchester, police announced. The arrest stemmed from an incident on Thursday, April 18, when a victim told Bedford Police that he had been swindled out of tens of thousands of dollars, the department announced on Wednesday, April 24. According to Bedford Police, the victim had received a pop-up security alert appearing to be from "Microsoft" on their...
A man was convicted Monday of ripping off seniors in a purported investment scheme in Belize. Leo Delgado was convicted by a jury at the North Justice Center in Fullerton of three counts of grand theft and six counts of money laundering, all felonies, with sentencing enhancements for aggravated white collar crime between $100,000 and […]
A 44-year-old Westchester man has admitted to a healthcare fraud scheme that cost Medicare nearly $50 million in losses, federal officials announced. Pelham Manor resident Manishkumar Patel pleaded guilty on Friday, April 26 to charges connected to a healthcare fraud and kickback scheme involving the sale of fraudulent prescriptions, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Earlier Report - $10M Scheme: Pelham Manor Man Nabbed For Selling Fraudulent...
LIVINGSTON — A Tickfaw man was convicted of trafficking more than two pounds of fentanyl and other drugs in one of the largest drug seizures in Livingston Parish history.Devonte Skinner, 32, was found guilty Wednesday on charges of possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, methamphetamine and marijuana after only 30 minutes of jury deliberation.Skinner was under investigation by Livingston Parish Sheriff's deputies for several months before he was arrested in April 2023. After...
The U.S. House of Representatives has thrown its support behind one of the country’s largest-ever bills focused on outdoor recreation, sending the Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Act to the Senate with unanimous approval on April 9. Known as the Explore Act, the 220-page package seeks to streamline the permitting process for outdoor recreation companies, […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah, April 30, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — A Nevada man has been charged federally for an alleged $7 million fraud inflicted on Utah. Kyle Eugene Duncan-Carle, 40, of Las Vegas allegedly carried out a scheme to defraud multiple credit unions from January 2023 through September 2023, in Utah, involving $7 million worth of […] The post Las Vegas man indicted in alleged $7 million treasury check fraud scheme in Utah first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
A mother-daughter duo has been sentenced to prison for defrauding the government of approximately $1.7 million. Westchester County residents Alicia Ayers and her mother, Andrea Ayers, both of Mount Vernon, were found guilty of submitting more than 300 fraudulent applications for US Small Business Administration Economic Injury Disaster Loans. Andrea Ayers was a former Code Enforcement Officer for the City of Mount Vernon Police Department. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress...
The comments come after Toronto police announced the results of a two-year-long synthetic fraud investigation, dubbed Project Déjà Vu, at a news conference Monday.
Fellow season 46 contestant Liz Wilcox shared the heartbreaking news on X but did not reveal the date or her dear friend's cause of death. Christopher previously starred on season one of Survivor in 2000 and was known for being the first contestant to get voted off the island. She was a retired music therapist, who shared her gratitude for her short time on the show as it nevertheless gave her a platform to support causes she believed in
Actor Brian Cox opined that the Bible was "one of the worst books ever" and claimed that religion holds people back from evolving. The self-identified socialist made the comments in an interview on "The Starting Line" podcast that was published Sunday. Cox was explaining why society needed to be more matriarchal and how the patriarchy had failed to express fully our human nature. "Well do because we have to honor them and we have to give them their place and we're resistant to that," said Cox...
Phil Foden, 23, is the heavy favourite to win PFA Player of the Year this season. He has fast become the most important player in Pep Guardiola's Man City team. Foden reveals what it's REALLY like to play for Pep Guardiola in an It's All Kicking Off special. Listen on
A Birdsboro landscaping contractor is accused of failing to finish a patio project after being paid nearly $13,000 in advance by a West Lawn homeowner.