The Daily Misanthrope

June 4, 2026  •  Misanthrope Index: 9.0 — Full Walken

Folly of the Day

A Former IRS Revenue Agent Was Charged With Embezzling $12 Million From a New Jersey Fuel Company Where He Served as CFO — Then Laundering It Through Online Sportsbooks. He Spent His Career Teaching Organizations That the IRS Sees Everything.

McCloughy spent his professional life as an IRS agent establishing that financial records are traceable and fraud is detectable, then embezzled $12 million and laundered it through online sportsbooks — which generate timestamped electronic records of every transaction — apparently concluding that the principle applied to everyone except the man who spent his career enforcing it.

Source: IRS Criminal Investigation

The Wire

NYPD Detectives Went Door-to-Door in the Bronx Asking Neighbors for Doorbell Camera Footage of a Shooting. When They Knocked on Gilbert Smalls's Door, He Said: 'I'm the One Who Shot Him.'

Detectives had nothing connecting Smalls to the shooting — they were seeking footage from his doorbell camera, not a statement from the perpetrator — and the investigation concluded the moment he opened the door.

Source: Police1

The Wire

A Michigan Rapper Was Sentenced to 10 Years for Orchestrating a $63 Million Mail Theft Scheme Involving 10,000 Intercepted Treasury Checks. He Advertised the Stolen Checks to Buyers Using His Celebrity Platform on Telegram.

Williams intercepted 10,000 Treasury checks worth $63 million and then used his public name and following to amplify the distribution operation, treating his own celebrity as an asset to a federal investigation.

Source: Townhall

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The Wire

A UK Man Sold £86,000 in Counterfeit Rolex Watches by Insisting Buyers Meet Him in Person — at CCTV-Covered Locations — to Avoid eBay's Fraud Detection System. He Was Convicted on Five Counts of Fraud.

Mancini avoided eBay's buyer-protection platform — the system most likely to catch him — by meeting five victims in person at locations with CCTV coverage, which investigators later summarized as him being 'so brazen he met his victims in person,' having traded one evidence trail for another that included his face.

Source: SWNS / AOL

LazyTown

A 73-Year-Old Australian Was Arrested for Driving on a License Disqualified Until 2117. It Was His Third Offense in Five Years.

The man has accumulated three convictions, a 92-year disqualification, repeated bail refusals, and multiple plate confiscations — each of which communicated the same instruction, which he continues to decline to follow.

Source: CarExpert

The Faithful

An Italian Man Told His Wife He Was at a Business Dinner. A Restaurant's Promotional TikTok Showed Otherwise. He Responded by Suing the Restaurant.

His first mistake was the business dinner alibi; his second was suing the restaurant, which re-announced to the entire internet exactly why his marriage ended and ensured international coverage of the footage he was attempting to suppress.

Source: Dexerto

The Villages

A Villager Executed an Abrupt U-Turn in His Golf Cart, Throwing His Passenger Out. She Died. He Dragged Her Body Into a Nearby Flower Bed and Drove Away. He Is Now Facing DUI Manslaughter Charges.

Foxworth concluded that a body in the road was a problem and a body in the flower bed was an improvement — a distinction that DUI manslaughter charges do not, as it turns out, recognize.

Source: Babiarz Law Firm

Campus Watch

KeroNgb Extends the Dataset: UNREAL! Students Cannot Answer Basic Questions!

Source: YouTube / KeroNgb

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