A con woman dubbed the “Gucci Goddess” has pleaded guilty to swindling the US Army out of $108 million to buy dozens of homes and luxury cars, in one of the biggest fraud cases the military has seen.
Janet Yamanaka Mello, 57, allegedly created a fake company to siphon US government funds intended for the children of army personnel, according to prosecutors.
Go big or stay home.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s attorneys suggested a sentence of five to six years in prison, sharply lower than the roughly 100 years that he faces for stealing billions of dollars from FTX customers.
Lawyers for Bankman-Fried argued for 63 to 78 months in jail, citing medical conditions, including autism, and his intentions to better the world with his now-fallen crypto exchange.
A New York jury found Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts he faced last year. Prosecutors called the case one of the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history. Bankman-Fried’s sentencing is scheduled for March 28.
Corporate media are covering for the deadly consequences of President Joe Biden’s border invasion by pretending the illegal border crosser who allegedly assaulted, kidnapped, imprisoned, and murdered 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student Laken Hope Riley this week was merely a nearby resident and not an illegal alien from Venezuelan with a criminal history.
A new report says the crisis in Canada’s bail system has worsened over the last decade, with more people in pre-trial custody and some spending weeks in detention before being released.
A report released today by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association says that by 2021-2022, the proportion of people in provincial and territorial jails who were awaiting bail or trial was more than 70 per cent — and nearly 79 per cent in Ontario.
Whenever Dennis Wilson wants to take a drive in his new SUV, he has to set aside an extra 15 minutes. That’s about how long it takes to remove the car’s steering wheel club, undo four tire locks and lower a yellow bollard before backing out of his driveway.
His Honda CR-V is also fitted with two alarm systems, a vehicle tracking device and, for good measure, four Apple AirTags. Its remote-access key fob rests in a Faraday bag, to jam illicit unlocking signals.
As a final touch, he mounted two motion-sensitive floodlights on his house and aimed them at the driveway in his modest neighborhood in Toronto.
Crime has been at the top of the political agenda in Ottawa since the start of the year, and a new report card from one of Canada’s leading think tanks helps explain why.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s third justice report card, released earlier this month, indeed makes for grim reading. Most alarmingly, the report shows that the narrative of increasing violent crime on our streets is not a mere figment of “if it bleeds, it leads” media sensationalism, but, in fact, is a real phenomenon backed by reams of hard data. (Disclosure: I was briefly employed by MLI as an editor last year.)
Peel police have issued a public safety alert to residents of Mississauga and Brampton after a 21-year-old offender was released back into the community.
Police say Oloruntimilehin Ojeikere was released from custody on Feb. 22, 2024, after being charged with sexual assault, criminal harassment, and uttering threats. Among the requirements of his house arrest are that he wear a GPS monitor, remain at home except for medical emergencies or to meet with lawyers or attend court, and not go anywhere near his victims.
… Officials say Ojeikere – who also goes by “Timi” – is staying in the Erin Mills Parkway and Brittania Road area and while he may present a safety risk to the public, they will act to protect his rights “if they are infringed upon.”
The roster of characters arrested in the biggest gun bust in Canadian history has populated police blotters for years with their criminal capers.
Project Saxom was unveiled to the public on Thursday and the OPP-led probe announced 16 arrests and 279 charges. Cops also seized 274 illegal firearms, including 168 in the United States and 106 in Ontario.
A shaggy-haired and bearded Sam Bankman-Fried was pictured alongside a former Bloods gang member in the first jailhouse photo of the disgraced crypto kingpin after he was convicted of fraud.
Crypto crime reporter Tiffany Fong posted the image to YouTube on Monday, noting that the inmate next to the disgraced FTX boss is a gangster named G-Lock whom she had interviewed.
When a person apologizes, it’s implied that they did something wrong.
That’s why, if you’ve heard anything about the recent laying of sex assault charges against five men who played for Team Canada in the world juniors in 2018, you might have the impression that the London Police Service is utterly incompetent. Finally, six years after police first interviewed the complainant, the matter has now started its journey through the courts. The average headline contains a damning phrase: “Police apologize.”
A Harvard professor said that “all hell broke loose” and he was forced to go out in public with armed security after he published a study that found no evidence of racial bias in police shootings.
During a sit-down conversation with Bari Weiss of The Free Press, Harvard Economics Professor Roland Fryer discussed the fallout from a 2016 study he published on racial bias in Houston policing.
He and his 8 research assistants took a year to complete the research, he had 8 more reexamine the data to be certain…and they still couldn’t accept his findings cause it challenged their race-baiting ✊🏾 narrative. https://t.co/m3TJTgIELT
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) February 17, 2024
A Toronto woman whose car was stolen three times in the past year — and who had a rental car stolen too — says nobody is taking the problem seriously enough.
Kristin Shensel, a real estate broker, said her 2019 Range Rover was stolen three times since January 2023 from the street in front of her house. A rental car she used last year, a Jaguar, was also stolen.
Her car was first stolen in January 2023, then again in June 2023 and again on Wednesday night. The rental car was stolen two days after she got it in February 2023.
Does better anti-theft security mean a higher consumer price?
At the end of January, Statistics Canada published its annual report on firearms crime in Canada. Immediately our notoriously anti-gun prime minister, Justin Trudeau, jumped on the fact that gun crimes were up nearly 9% from the previous year and called for a further clampdown on legal gun ownership in Canada.
You can’t get a bottle of shampoo larger than 100 ml past security on a commercial flight, so how is it that 4,000-pound stolen cars, luxury SUVs or pickup trucks can be shipped across the ocean without detection?
