Robert McCloughy Spent His Career at the IRS Learning How Financial Fraud Is Detected. He Then Became a CFO, Embezzled $12 Million via Fake Expense Reimbursements Over Eight Years, and Laundered the Proceeds Through Online Sportsbooks.

He left a career at the IRS — the agency that investigates exactly this type of fraud — became a CFO, created eight years of fake expense reimbursements supported by false ledger entries, and laundered the proceeds through online sportsbooks, which are regulated platforms required to file Suspicious Activity Reports with FinCEN, all of which are facts he was professionally qualified to know before he started.

Source: IRS Criminal Investigation

An M&A Attorney at a Los Angeles Law Firm Spent Six Years Leaking His Clients' Confidential Acquisition Plans to a Trading Network. Twenty-One Defendants Were Charged. The SEC Described the Evidence as the Routine 'Digital Exhaust Generated by Everyday Activity.'

Nicolo Nourafchan spent six years misappropriating confidential deal information from his own clients, tipping a network of traders across multiple countries, and generating the communications, trade-timing correlations, and payment records that financial regulators specifically review whenever trading patterns around M&A announcements look anomalous — which is what trading patterns around M&A announcements look like when an M&A lawyer has been tipping traders.

Source: Washington Times

Ukraine's Former Presidential Chief of Staff Was Released on €2.7 Million Bail After Being Charged With Laundering €9 Million Through Luxury Home Construction Near Kyiv — Using Funds From the State Nuclear Energy Company

Andriy Yermak allegedly laundered approximately €9 million through luxury residential construction by routing funds through a state nuclear energy company — a state institution subject to audit, oversight, and anti-corruption scrutiny — apparently confident that the complexity of the arrangement would not attract the attention that complexity in state energy company finances specifically attracts.

Source: Euronews

Officials in Punjab's Anti-Corruption Bureau Were Arrested for Demanding a Bribe That Included a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 — a New Smartphone With a Registered Serial Number, IMEI, and Location Capability

Officials in the bureau whose designated function is to investigate corruption negotiated a bribe of Rs 13 lakh plus a brand-new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 — a device that ships with a registered IMEI number, location capability, and a forensic profile — which combines the ordinary risks of cash with the additional evidentiary properties of a personal computer, and which the CBI seized along with everyone holding it.

Source: The Tribune (India)

A Chinook Therapeutics Board Director Was Convicted of Insider Trading on the Company's $3.2 Billion Novartis Acquisition. He Learned of the Deal Because Board Members Are Trusted With Information Specifically on the Condition That They Will Not Trade on It.

Rouzbeh Haghighat received material nonpublic information about the Novartis acquisition in his capacity as a board director — a fiduciary role whose legal foundation is the assumption that its holders will not trade on what they learn — then traded on it and tipped three associates, collectively generating the $600,000 anomaly that the SEC's Market Abuse Unit flags automatically around every announced M&A transaction.

Source: Investment Executive

A Brooklyn Man Sold Forged License Plates on Instagram Under His Own Account Name, Collected Payment Through His Personal Zelle, and Delivered the Plates as Attachments From His Personal Email.

He built a criminal enterprise under his own name, on a platform where his name was the account identifier, with payments routed to his personally registered Zelle, and plate deliveries traceable to his personal email — the minimum additional effort to avoid all of this being one anonymous account, which he declined to create.

Source: New York Attorney General

A Norwegian Olympic Biathlete Won a Bronze Medal and Used His Post-Race Television Interview to Confess to Cheating on His Girlfriend. She Told a Tabloid She Did Not Choose to Be Put in That Position.

He told his girlfriend privately, then told the rest of Norway on live television without consulting her, operating on the confident assumption that his feelings about the gesture — that it was romantic and redemptive — were the relevant variable in a decision that affected her considerably more than him.

Source: Fox News

Ohio State's President Was Found to Have Pressured 14 University Employees to Support a Podcaster's Business Ventures, Secured Her a $60,000 Grant, and Taken Her on Business Trips. An Investigation Called the Relationship 'Inappropriate.'

Source: Inside Higher Ed