Robert McCloughy Spent a Decade at the IRS Learning How Financial Crime Gets Detected. Then He Became a Company CFO and Embezzled $12 Million Over Eight Years Using the Payroll System.

He was hired as CFO because ten years at the IRS made him a trusted authority on detecting financial fraud, and he spent eight years confirming that he understood the subject — just from the other side of it.

Source: IRS Criminal Investigation

The Greek Parliament Voted to Lift the Immunity of 13 of Its Own Members So They Can Be Prosecuted for Defrauding the EU of €23 Million in Farm Subsidies by Claiming Land They Did Not Own and Animals That Did Not Exist

Thirteen elected members of parliament claimed fictitious farmland and phantom livestock to collect EU agricultural subsidies, which required a vote by the entire parliament to permit their prosecution — a vote the parliament held, and passed.

Source: Euronews

Melbourne Man Sentenced to More Than Two Years for Running a Bulk Phone Porting Scam — He Attempted to Steal 86 Phone Numbers, Succeeded on 44, and Used Each One to Defeat Two-Factor Authentication

He built a scheme around the insight that banks use phone numbers as authentication — then executed 190 logged porting requests across 86 targets through systems that record every attempt, which is how a technically sophisticated fraud becomes a straightforward prosecution.

Source: iTnews

Sydney Man Registered as an NDIS Provider, Submitted 80 Fraudulent Claims Against 22 Participants Who Had No Idea He Existed, and Collected $1.5 Million for Services Never Provided

He defrauded a disability support program by inventing a service provider, fabricating 80 claims against 22 real participants, and collecting $1.5 million — a scheme whose detection required only that auditors compare submitted claims against the participants who never received the services.

Source: Australian Federal Police

Seattle Real Estate Professional Tamara King Sentenced for Defrauding 22 Victims of More Than $2 Million Through Wire Fraud, Money Laundering, and Tax Fraud. She Blamed Her Ex-Husband.

She was convicted on wire fraud, money laundering, and tax fraud charges involving over $2 million from 22 victims, and offered the jury her ex-husband as an explanation — which the jury considered and declined.

Source: Inman

University of Arizona Found That Architecture Professor Susannah Dickinson Had Plagiarized Her Own Student's Master's Thesis — in a Conference Paper and in a Job Application for a Visiting Professorship in London. The Punishment Was a Formal Admonishment.

Source: Tucson.com