A New Jersey contractor who stole nearly $600,000 intended to repair homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy will spend five years in prison, prosecutors said Friday. The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office announced that Adam Nevius, 49, is headed to New Jersey State Prison after admitting to pocketing money from at least 17 homeowners for repairs his […]
A government employee in the small Pinellas County town of Belleair is accused of pocketing nearly $5,000 in cash from residents’ water bill payments. Town police arrested Jelani Gorham, 47, last week, according to court records. He faces a charge of scheming to defraud, a third-degree felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison. […]
A Colorado-based pastor for an online church accused of pocketing $1.3 million through a cryptocurrency fraud scheme told followers in a video statement that the Lord told him to do it. Eli Regalado and his wife marketed their cryptocurrency, INDXcoin, to Christian communities in Denver, saying God told him people would become wealthy if they […]
Dave McCormick, an extremely wealthy hedge fund manager running as a Republican for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, has built much of his political persona around his record of creating jobs. During his run for Senate last cycle, McCormick cited both his tenure as CEO of online auction startup FreeMarkets in the early 2000s and leading […]