Crime

Scam Theater: Inside an Online Trading Crime Ring That Grifted Millions from Mom-and-Pop Investors

It was supposed to be an easy gig. Jason Glick had been acting for more than 30 years, mostly in stage productions, but the occasional on-screen commercial work helped cover the bills, and the shoot for the Quantum Code paid too well to pass up. In a half-hour pitch video with more than 4 million…

Crime Jed Oelbaum

Reputed Mafia Fugitive Busted in Caribbean After Police Find His Italian Cooking Channel on YouTube

Authorities have tracked down and arrested 53-year-old Marc Feren Claude Biart, a former member of the Italian mob, in the Dominican Republic after years on the lam because he showed his unmistakable tattoos in YouTube cooking videos. Biart was a member of the Cacciola clan of the ’Ndrangheta, the Mafia-like organized crime syndicate centered out of…

Crime Tom McKay

Remember Steve Bannon? Manhattan’s Attorney General Definitely Does

Blood-filled wineskin and former White House political adviser Steve Bannon narrowly escaped possible federal prison time for his role in a scammy GoFundMe campaign to build a wall on the border with Mexico, courtesy of a last-minute pardon from ex-President Donald Trump. But that won’t help him in New York, where the Manhattan district attorney’s…

Crime Tom McKay

Ponzi Scheme Suspect Flees FBI Using Handheld Sea Scooter, Fails Miserably

Federal agents arrested Matthew Piercey near Redding, California, on Monday over an alleged $35 million Ponzi scheme, but Piercey didn’t surrender quietly. The suspect reportedly fled FBI agents in a truck before jumping out, getting something out of his vehicle, and hiding in the freezing water of Lake Shasta for 25 minutes. How did he…

Crime Matt Novak

The DOJ Seized Over a Billion Dollars From Silk Road’s Bitcoin Coffers

A $1 billion transaction that flowed out of a dormant bitcoin wallet allegedly belonging to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht made waves in the crypto world this week, causing some to suspect the founder himself was making moves from prison. No such luck, however: It was the Department of Justice seizing the dark market’s gains…

Crime John Biggs

Feds Say 19-Year-Old With a Van Full of Rifles Plotted to Kill Joe Biden, Posted About It on iFunny

Among the reasons a federal judge ruled that 19-year-old Alexander Hillel Treisman should remain in custody while he awaits trial on child pornography charges: He conveyed his intent to assassinate Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden in a meme he posted online, according to prosecutors. Per the Washington Post, court documents relaying…

Crime Tom McKay

The Other Creepy Guy on Netflix’s Tiger King Indicted on Wildlife Trafficking Charges

Since Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness premiered on Netflix earlier this year, most public attention has been focused on the lives of the series’ prime subjects: Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin. On Thursday, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring gave everyone a reason to say, “oh yeah, I forgot about that Doc Antle guy.” The…

Crime Rhett Jones

QAnon-Obsessed CBP Officer Arrested After Sending ‘Numerous’ Threats to Superior

An agent for Customs and Border Protection in New Jersey, Alberto Almeida, was arrested and is facing charges after he allegedly sent threatening messages accusing a senior CBP official of child trafficking and calling for his extrajudicial execution, the Daily Beast reported on Wednesday. According to a criminal complaint filed by a special agent with…

Crime Tom McKay

Teen Hacker Charged with Paralyzing Miami Schools in Embarrassingly Simple Cyberattack

A Florida teenager allegedly used an embarrassingly simple program to launch a series of DDoS attacks that helped shut down one of the nation’s largest school districts for its first three days of virtual classes, the Miami Herald reported this week. On Thursday, school administrators in Miami-Dade County announced that a 16-year-old student at South…

Crime Alyse Stanley

A Tesla Employee Foiled an Alleged Ransomware Scheme

CEO Elon Musk called a thwarted cyberattack against Tesla “serious” on Thursday after a Russian national reportedly tried to recruit and bribe an employee to install ransomware on the company’s network at its Gigafactory in northern Nevada. The Justice Department released a complaint earlier this week about an attempted malware attack that doesn’t name the…

Crime Alyse Stanley

Photo: U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joe Laws

FBI, USAF Investigating if Military Helicopter Shot at in Virginia Was Targeted or Hit by Random Gunfire

Someone opened fire on a U.S. Air Force UH-1N Huey helicopter while it was flying in Virginia around noon on Monday, injuring one of the two pilots on board, an Air Force official told CNN on Wednesday. Per CNN, the Air Force and the FBI are looking for the shooter and attempting to determine whether…

Crime Tom McKay

Anthony Levandowski, Engineer at Center of Uber v. Waymo, Sentenced to 18 Months for Trade Theft

Anthony Levandowski, the former Google autonomous vehicle engineer whose switch to Uber was the subject of massive lawsuit, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for trade theft. Levandowski co-founded Google’s autonomous vehicle unit, now known as Waymo, in 2009 and worked there until 2016. That year, he quit and founded his own company,…

Crime Tom McKay

Dogecoin Is Powering a Nasty Botnet

Hackers are using Dogecoin, the meme-themed cryptocurrency that recently experienced a bull run thanks to TikTokkers, to help expand a malware botnet. A new exploit called Doki is piggybacking on software that targets unprotected Docker containers. By pointing their botnet at a specific Dogecoin wallet, hackers are changing the command and control addresses for various…

Crime John Biggs

Police Arrest Suspect in the Murder of Tech C.E.O. Fahim Saleh

Investigators arrested a suspect this morning for the murder of tech C.E.O. Fahim Saleh, 33. Saleh’s personal assistant, Tyrese Devon Haspil, 21, is expected to be charged with second degree murder, along with other crimes, according to two officials who spoke with New York Times. Saleh was discovered by his sister in his Lower East…

Crime Joanna Nelius

Feds Charge Seventh eBay Exec Over Obsessive Plot to Cyberstalk Critical Bloggers

Another former eBay exec, Philip Cooke, has been charged in federal court for allegedly participating in an amazingly dipshit plot to cyberstalk a couple that criticized the e-commerce site in a newsletter. That brings the total number of former eBay workers facing charges to seven—and the number of former cops in that group to two.…

Crime Tom McKay

U.S. Army Soldier Charged With Plotting to Attack His Own Unit With Neo-Nazi Satanists

A U.S. Army soldier has been charged with plotting an attack on his own unit in coordination with the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), a somewhat obscure white supremacist and Satanist group. According to indictment documents filed with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and available on the Department…

Crime Tom McKay

Fired eBay Execs Charged in Batshit Cyberstalking Plot Against Company’s Critics

An unfortunate reality of journalism is that, while anyone in the industry for long enough has gotten their share of death threats, some coverage—reporting on white supremacists, taking photos in a war zone, exposing deep-pocketed oil companies—simply tends to be more emotionally, physically, financially dangerous to pursue. Not to be outdone by the other various…

Crime Avery Ellis

European Police Bust Alleged Pirate Streaming Service With Over 2 Million Users

Sick of streaming paywalls and unending searches on multiple services to find where that one movie doesn’t cost five bucks? Seems like a whole lot of people in Europe are too. Police throughout the European Union have taken down a TV and movie streaming ring that they claim involved over 2 million subscribers, dozens of…

Crime Tom McKay

Feds Charge Executive of Pinprick Blood Testing Firm With Fraud Over Coronavirus Scheme

The Department of Justice has brought charges against the president of a Silicon Valley-based pharmaceutical firm, Arrayit, alleging a scheme to profiteer off the coronavirus pandemic with a shoddy covid-19 test it tried to bundle with an expensive, unrelated allergen finger stick test. The DOJ said the charges are its first securities fraud case brought in…

Crime Tom McKay

Huawei Executive One Step Closer to U.S. Extradition After Major Loss in Court

The chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei, Meng Wanzhou, is much likelier to end up facing prison time in the United States after her legal strategy to avoid extradition from Canada suffered a massive blow on Wednesday. Meng is facing multiple charges in the U.S., where prosecutors have pegged her as the mastermind…

Crime Tom McKay

Scam Theater: Inside an Online Trading Crime Ring That Grifted Millions from Mom-and-Pop Investors

Reputed Mafia Fugitive Busted in Caribbean After Police Find His Italian Cooking Channel on YouTube

Remember Steve Bannon? Manhattan’s Attorney General Definitely Does

Ponzi Scheme Suspect Flees FBI Using Handheld Sea Scooter, Fails Miserably

The DOJ Seized Over a Billion Dollars From Silk Road’s Bitcoin Coffers

Feds Say 19-Year-Old With a Van Full of Rifles Plotted to Kill Joe Biden, Posted About It on iFunny

The Other Creepy Guy on Netflix’s Tiger King Indicted on Wildlife Trafficking Charges

QAnon-Obsessed CBP Officer Arrested After Sending ‘Numerous’ Threats to Superior

Teen Hacker Charged with Paralyzing Miami Schools in Embarrassingly Simple Cyberattack

A Tesla Employee Foiled an Alleged Ransomware Scheme

FBI, USAF Investigating if Military Helicopter Shot at in Virginia Was Targeted or Hit by Random Gunfire

Anthony Levandowski, Engineer at Center of Uber v. Waymo, Sentenced to 18 Months for Trade Theft

Dogecoin Is Powering a Nasty Botnet

Police Arrest Suspect in the Murder of Tech C.E.O. Fahim Saleh

Feds Charge Seventh eBay Exec Over Obsessive Plot to Cyberstalk Critical Bloggers

U.S. Army Soldier Charged With Plotting to Attack His Own Unit With Neo-Nazi Satanists

Fired eBay Execs Charged in Batshit Cyberstalking Plot Against Company’s Critics

European Police Bust Alleged Pirate Streaming Service With Over 2 Million Users

Feds Charge Executive of Pinprick Blood Testing Firm With Fraud Over Coronavirus Scheme

Huawei Executive One Step Closer to U.S. Extradition After Major Loss in Court

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