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A former Philadelphia probation officer is facing a mix of jail time and home confinement after admitting he spent years running an illegal sports betting operation, federal prosecutors said Wednesday (April 8). Joseph M. Moore, 43, was sentenced to one day in custody followed by a year of home detention. On top of that, he’ll […]
Fraudulent Lakeland tax preparer Jeffrey Dixon, who used falsified gambling winnings and losses to defraud the IRS, has been sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison after pleading guilty last summer. The Florida local pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aiding and assisting in the filing of false and […]
A former finance executive convicted of helping Charlie Javice defraud JPMorgan Chase into buying the college financial aid startup Frank for $175 million was sentenced on Wednesday to 68 months in prison. Olivier Amar, who was Frank’s chief growth officer, was sentenced by US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan. Hellerstein also sentenced Javice to 85 months in […]
US businesswoman Charlie Javice (L), founder of Frank, arrives for her sentencing hearing at federal court in Manhattan on Sept. 29, 2025, in New York City. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images Charlie Javice, founder of a startup acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2021 for $175 million, was sentenced to just over 7 years in prison Monday […]
A 48-year-old man from Olympia was sentenced on Thursday (September 11), in a US District Court in Tacoma to 18 months in prison for wire fraud connected to a large embezzlement scheme that supported his gambling addiction, according to Acting US Attorney Teal Luthy Miller. Matthew Randall Ping admitted guilt in June 2025 to wire […]
A former senior partner at McKinsey & Company was sentenced on Friday to six months in federal prison for destroying records of the firm’s work to “turbocharge” Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin sales during the opioid crisis. Martin Elling, 60, pleaded guilty in January to obstruction of justice related to criminal investigations into McKinsey’s consulting work with […]
Former talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a federal financial conspiracy case that cast his once-buzzy Ozy Media as an extreme of fake-it-’til-you-make-it startup culture. So extreme that another Ozy executive impersonated a YouTube executive to hype Ozy to investment bankers — while Watson coached him, prosecutors said. […]
