money laundering
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A federal grand jury in Montgomery has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on 11 criminal counts, including wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. The indictment alleges that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than…
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Federal authorities have escalated enforcement efforts against Emuobosan Emanuella Hall, a 45-year-old Nigerian national and lawful permanent resident of the United States, following her failure to self-surrender to begin serving a 96-month sentence imposed for her role in a multi-jurisdictional romance fraud conspiracy. On April 14, 2026, U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Phillips Currault signed a…
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Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, a founding member of the Grammy-winning hip-hop group The Fugees, has been ordered to forfeit nearly $65 million to the U.S. government after a federal judge concluded he profited from one of the largest global corruption schemes in history, the 1MDB scandal. The order, handed down by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, comes months…
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A newly detailed Treasury Department file has shed light on the scale of Jeffrey Epstein’s financial network, revealing that former President Donald Trump made 4,725 wire transfers totaling more than $1.1 billion to Epstein, according to investigators who reviewed portions of the file. The records, described as a “roadmap of leads,” outline thousands of transfers…
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In an extraordinary account of crime, consequence, and redemption, a former cocaine smuggler who once operated under the shadow of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar is opening up about the double life he led during the height of the U.S. drug war in the 1980s — and why he’s now dedicating his final years to preventing…
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Federal prosecutors have unsealed a sweeping indictment against Nigerian software programmer Sapphire Egemasi, alleging her central involvement in a coordinated cybercrime operation that defrauded U.S. government entities of millions of dollars between 2021 and 2023. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Egemasi, 28, was arrested by FBI agents in…
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What began as flashy Instagram posts flaunting luxury cars, designer brands, and private jets ended in a sobering prison sentence for Nigerian influencer Ramon Abbas—better known to his millions of online followers as “Hushpuppi.” Abbas, 40, was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison in 2022 after pleading guilty to charges of money laundering tied…
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Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory, the notorious drug kingpin and co-founder of the Black Mafia Family (BMF), has been released from prison after serving 15 years for his role in one of the largest drug trafficking and money laundering operations in U.S. history. Flenory’s early release was confirmed by Billboard after his sentence was reduced from…
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A Georgia attorney and former City of Atlanta police officer, Shelitha Robertson, 62, was handed a sentence of seven years and three months in prison for her role in a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of approximately $15 million. Robertson, along with co-conspirator Chandra Norton, orchestrated a plot to submit fraudulent PPP…
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Five individuals were arrested in Los Angeles for their alleged involvement in defrauding Medicare of over $15 million through sham hospice companies and subsequent money laundering activities. The defendants, identified as Petros Fichidzhyan, Juan Carlos Esparza, Karpis Srapyan, Susanna Harutyunyan, and Mihran Panosyan, are accused of operating sham hospice companies purportedly owned by foreign nationals,…
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