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MJ Capital Funding: How a 10%-a-Month 'Merchant Cash Advance' Fund Hid a $196M Ponzi
Johanna Garcia got 20 years. Pavel Hernandez got nine. Sixteen thousand mostly Latino investors in South Florida lost an estimated $196 million. The math told the whole story years before the SEC stepped in.
Daren Li, $73 Million, and the Pig-Butchering Playbook That Still Works
A 20-year federal sentence handed down in absentia. A defendant on the run. And a romance-investment scheme that keeps draining American retirement accounts. Here's what the Daren Li case teaches everyone else.
Malone Lam, $230M, and the Crypto RICO Indictment That Changed the Game
Federal prosecutors charged Malone Lam and a dozen co-conspirators with running a RICO enterprise that drained crypto wallets and spent the proceeds on Lamborghinis and Miami nightclubs. Here's how the scheme worked — and how to defend against it.
Inside the Ghana–Ohio Romance Scam Ring: 13 Defendants, Years of Sentences
A federal indictment in the Southern District of Ohio dismantled a transnational romance-fraud crew. Here's who was charged, who was convicted, and what victims should look out for.
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