Folly of the DayThree Telekom Malaysia USA Executives Were Charged With Stealing $20 Million Through Four Overlapping Fraud Schemes Run Inside Their Employer's Own Systems. When Questioned About a Fake Expense Trip to Las Vegas, They Flew to Las Vegas and Photographed Christmas Trees to Retroactively Prove They Had Been There in December.
They impersonated their own employees, their own suppliers, and fabricated a work trip — and when caught in a specific lie about Las Vegas, flew to Las Vegas to photograph Christmas trees as retroactive December evidence, which is the approach of men who remained confident at every step that the next layer of fraud would resolve the previous one.
Source: ABC News
The WireA Four-Country Burglary Ring Was Indicted After Investigators Found Photos on Their Phones Showing Them Posing With Stolen Rolex Watches on Their Wrists and Piles of Cash on Tables. One Homeowner Identified Her Necklace From a Selfie.
The group documented each burglary with trophy photographs of the stolen items, which prosecutors then matched to victims' property descriptions — creating, at each crime scene, a receipt.
Source: Fox 9
The WireA 28-Year-Old Woman Enrolled in a Bronx High School Under the Alias 'Shamara Rashad,' Claiming to Be 16. The Principal Found Her Real Facebook Page. She Had Been Attending Classes for Two Weeks.
Claassen maintained an active, fully public Facebook account under her real name and actual date of birth while simultaneously attending high school as a 16-year-old, an identity discipline failure that required the principal to conduct a single search.
Source: Gothamist
The WireA Peoria Career Criminal Was Arrested for Impersonating a Sheriff's Deputy — Pulling Over a Driver, Cutting His License in Half, and Fleeing When Threatened With a Complaint. At His Home: an AR-15, Multiple Badges, Body Armor, Handcuffs, and Shackles. He Had Already Served Prison Time in Texas for the Same Crime.
Walker had already served time for impersonating an officer and responded to that lesson by acquiring a more elaborate prop arsenal, including a defaced automatic rifle, apparently concluding that his first attempt had failed due to insufficient equipment.
Source: 25 News Now
LazyTownAn Illinois Trucker Was Indicted for $21,991 in Unpaid Ohio Turnpike Tolls Accumulated Over Two Years. He Now Faces Prison and Forfeiture of His Semi.
Musamih spent two years and considerable ingenuity evading a toll system in order to avoid paying a bill that would have cost him less than a single week's fuel — and now faces losing the truck that made the tolls necessary.
Source: CBS News Chicago
The VillagesA Pastor Known for His Marriage Advice Was Arrested at The Villages on Bigamy Charges Out of Georgia, Where He Allegedly Married Multiple Women Simultaneously.
Williams gave marriage advice for a living and was arrested for bigamy, which suggests either a very broad definition of research methodology or a man who believed that professional expertise in a subject exempts one from its rules.
Source: Fox News