A Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney at the DOJ Was Indicted for Downloading the Sealed Jack Smith Report on Trump's Classified Documents Case, Renaming the File 'Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf,' and Emailing It From Her DOJ Work Account to Her Personal Gmail

A Managing Assistant United States Attorney downloaded a sealed federal document, renamed it 'Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf,' and emailed it from her official DOJ account — a federal records system — to her personal Gmail, apparently having concluded that the Department of Justice's own email infrastructure was the appropriate channel for this operation.

Source: ABC News

The USDA Employee Charged With Running a $66 Million SNAP Fraud Scheme Worked in the Agency's SNAP Fraud Detection Division

Arlasa Davis used her access to a federal database specifically designed to detect EBT fraud to photograph and sell EBT license numbers to external fraudsters — collecting bribes the indictment describes as 'birthday gifts and flowers' — having apparently concluded that working in fraud detection was compatible with running the fraud.

Source: FedAgent

The Corporate Travel Manager Who Presented Fabricated £118 Million Refund Agreements to His Board Submitted Documents the Government Client Confirmed It Had Never Signed. KPMG Was Already Reviewing His Books.

Michael Healy produced documents purporting to show £118 million in signed government refund agreements to a board that had already commissioned a KPMG forensic review — the review that subsequently found the documents may not have been authentic, while the government client confirmed it had no record of signing any of them.

Source: Travel Weekly Australia

A Former Ohio State Employee Used His Legitimate Access to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance System to Process $7 Million in Fraudulent Claims. He Was Sentenced to 84 Months and $7 Million Restitution.

Andrew Kerobo had legitimate credentialed access to Ohio's Pandemic Unemployment Assistance platform, used it to process $7 million in fraudulent claims under his own authorized login, and received a sentence of 84 months — a figure that somewhat exceeds the $7 million he was simultaneously ordered to repay.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OIG

The Son of the President of the U.S. Marshals' Seized-Cryptocurrency Contractor Allegedly Stole $46 Million From the Government Wallets He Had Insider Access To. He Was Identified When He Screen-Shared the Stolen Wallet Balances Live on Telegram.

He had insider access to government seized-crypto wallets, allegedly executed a $46 million transfer, and was then identified in part when he screen-shared the stolen wallet balances live on Telegram — a session that provided the attribution that on-chain forensics alone might not have conclusively established.

Source: TRM Labs

His Girlfriend's Spotify Wrapped Listed a Local Indie Artist With Fewer Than 500 Monthly Listeners as Her Most-Played. He Investigated. She Was in the Musician's Instagram Highlights.

She maintained a parallel relationship with a musician whose Spotify profile was statistically indistinguishable from silence, shared a streaming account with her boyfriend, and did not account for Spotify's annual listening summary — a data product that exists specifically to surface what you played most.

Source: Daily Dot

A Villages Resident Flipped His Golf Cart in a Roundabout. When Officers Arrived, He Was Swaying. An Open, Cold Beer Was Still in the Cart.

He overturned his golf cart in a roundabout and was still swaying when officers arrived, at which point the probable cause portion of the investigation consisted largely of observing the open, cold beer that had survived the rollover intact in the passenger area.

Source: Villages-News

The UNC Board of Trustees Rejected a Faculty Appointment in Women's and Gender Studies for the Second Time in Five Years. The First Rejection Was Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Source: Inside Higher Ed