Fraud

A tough week for Ilhan Omar

It all began to unravel last Friday (April 17), when the Wall Street Journal reported that the Minnesota congresswoman’s net worth had plummeted in less than a year from as much as $30 million to less than $100,000. Oof. On…

Brickbat: Hard at Work

A federal judge sentenced former Baltimore City Schools Police Officer Lawrence Smith to one year and one day in jail. Smith admitted stealing $215,000 in overtime pay and pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion.…

Mr. Ellison sends his regrets

The Minnesota state House Fraud Prevention committee met yesterday and the star attraction was to have been a repeat appearance from state Attorney General Keith Ellison. Ellison was asked to appear and answer more questions…

A look back at the SPLC

It was Voltaire who observed that the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. You can look it up. Unlike the Southern Poverty Law Center, however, it wasn’t a fraud from the name on down. The SPLC is.…

A Tax Day Coda

This pretty much says it all. The question, I suppose, is whether we have gotten to the point where the check cashers outnumber the check writers: Source link

Take the money and run

Lou Raguse of local KARE-11 TV (NBC) broke the story Friday morning of “Minnesota Man” Abdirashid Ismail Said, 50, fleeing the country with $11 million in fraud proceeds. The story has now gone global. New York Post:…

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