A Former Senior CIA Official Was Arrested After the FBI Found 303 Gold Bars Worth Over $40 Million, $2 Million in Cash, and 35 Rolex Watches in His Virginia Home. He Had Been Faking His Military Credentials Since 1997. His Employer Gave Him the Gold.

Rush enlisted using degrees he does not appear to have earned, served as a lieutenant he may not have been qualified to become, told people he was a Navy pilot without documented training, obtained a senior CIA position with top-secret clearance through this accumulated biography, and then requested forty million dollars in gold bars from his employer — for expenses — and was issued them; the forty million is not, on reflection, the most remarkable fact in the case.

Source: ABC News 4

The VP of Finance at an Alexandria Cybersecurity Firm Was Indicted for Using Her Corporate American Express to Charge $4.5 Million in Luxury Goods, Resort Vacations, Yacht Payments, and $150,000 in Casino Transactions Over Six Years

Sharon Geok-Lian Lee used her employer's corporate card to charge $4.5 million in personal luxury expenditures over six years — a fraud that was itemized, auditable, and conducted entirely through the accounting infrastructure she was responsible for overseeing.

Source: ALXnow

The CEO and CFO of an AI Company Were Indicted for Fabricating Virtually All of Its Customer Relationships and Revenue. The Company Filed Chapter 11. Its Last Reported Valuation Was $1.4 Billion.

Chidambaran and Naqvi fabricated the customer relationships, contracts, and revenue figures that made iLearningEngines appear to be worth $1.4 billion — a valuation model that produces accurate results only until the point at which anyone examines the underlying customers, which the bankruptcy proceeding eventually required.

Source: CFO Dive

Three Executives at Telekom Malaysia's U.S. Subsidiary Were Charged With Stealing $20 Million Through Unauthorized Broadband Sales, Supplier Impersonation, Intercepted Employee Paychecks, and Fake Expense Reimbursements — in What Prosecutors Called the First Self-Reported Corporate Fraud Case of Its Kind

Three executives generated $20 million through methods requiring the sustained non-noticing of auditors, counterparties, payroll systems, and supervisors — a confidence the indictment, and the company's own self-report to prosecutors, suggests was not warranted.

Source: ABC News

Twenty-Five Ransomware Gangs Used the Same VPN Because It Advertised 'No Logs.' Law Enforcement Seized It. There Were Logs.

Ransomware operators whose entire operational security model rested on a single vendor's no-logging claim did not verify the claim, were identified in bulk when the vendor was seized, and appear to have treated 'we don't keep logs' on a sales page as an audited infrastructure guarantee.

Source: TechCrunch

A Stranger Posted a TikTok Asking People to Identify a Married Man at a Public Rodeo So Her Friend Could Contact Him. His Wife Was on TikTok. The Post Got 25 Million Views.

He was publicly seen pursuing women at a rodeo, a stranger immediately posted a public TikTok asking the internet to identify him by name and description, his wife was on TikTok, and he appears to have considered none of this a relevant variable.

Source: Whiskey Riff

A Villages Resident Voted Absentee in Connecticut, Then Drove to Florida and Voted in Person Again. When the FBI Asked Why, He Said He 'Just Wanted to See if He Could.'

Barnes conducted an informal audit of federal election security using himself as the instrument, obtained his data, and was indicted — the results conclusive on the question the investigators asked, though apparently not the one he had.

Source: ClickOrlando

University of Utah Officials Told Student Earth Day Organizers to Remove Phrases Like 'Environmental Justice' and 'Communities Disproportionately Affected by Climate Change' From Their Materials, Citing Institutional Neutrality. The Faculty Senate Called on Administrators to Apologize.

Source: Inside Higher Ed