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Jacob Wohl Jack Burkhman black voters thegrio.com
October 29, 2020
Men charged with intimidating Black voters were ordered to call back victims and admit messages were false by Thursday.
Nuke Bizzle theft arrest www.theGrio.com
October 17, 2020
Los Angeles based rapper Nuke Buzzle is arrested for unemployment check scam after boasting about fraud in his music.
fraud Mississippi TennCare www.theGrio.com
September 17, 2020
Three Mississippi women face years in prison for fradulently obtaining health benefits in Tennessee for their children, TennCare says.
T.I.
September 12, 2020
Rapper T.I. was named in a digital currency probe involving four others that led to $2.2 million in profits for…
The Lamborghini Huracan theGrio.com
July 29, 2020
Florida business owner, David Hines, has been charged with fraud after receiving nearly $4 million in Paycheck Protection Program funds.
May 22, 2020
An Atlanta man is in jail after he falsely claimed to have COVID-19 so that he could earn some paid…
May 10, 2020
Antonio Mariot Wilson, who met Jenifer Lewis at a gym he managed, pled guilty to a federal wire fraud charge…
Chikaodinaka D. Nwankpa theGrio.com
January 21, 2020
A former Drexel University professor has been charged with stealing $185,000 in grant money and making it rain at area…
church
January 10, 2020
A preacher who gave blessed assurance and allegedly sticky fingers is being charged with four federal counts of fraud for…
Jermaine Grant thegrio.com
April 28, 2019
Jermaine Grant, the high priest of the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ in Harlem, a separatist group based…
February 15, 2019
Eventually the IRS did catch up to him, but not before he stretched his his hustle to the max and…
February 8, 2019
Kanye West name has been allegedly been used without his knowledge to get about $1 million from fashion designer Philipp…
January 23, 2019
A Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity member and former finance director has been caught in a financial scandal after he embezzled…
Fraud
December 18, 2018
Auto insurance isn't cheap in New York State and one educator thought she'd figure how she'd beat the system. She…
Charles Turner thegrio.com
December 7, 2018
An 18-year-old in Georgia managed to pull off an online bank scam which was going smoothly until authorities got wind…
March 18, 2018
Facebook has cut ties with Cambridge Analytica because the firm failed to delete the personal data of users. and is…
April 3, 2017
Paulette Leaphart captured national attention after she had a double mastectomy and pledged to walk 1,000 miles topless from her
September 12, 2016
A Florida teenager who is suspected of faking doctor credentials is going up against some new charges for allegedly trying
July 12, 2016
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida congresswoman indicted on fraud charges is telling supporters she's being "persecuted" by federal authorities…
March 5, 2016
Malachi Love-Robinson, the 18-year-old who was arrested for posing as a doctor, has been arrested again.