Intelligence Brief
Where the $248,000 Went
A Connecticut indictment follows one retirement withdrawal through five bank accounts and a copier wholesaler. The first step looked like ordinary banking.
The Story Is the Costume
What twenty-four federal romance and pig-butchering prosecutions in Larigent's case database say about how the money actually moves, who gets prosecuted, and where a professional could have stopped it
The Person With the Keys
In the elder-fraud prosecutions we track, cases built on a stranger's phone call now sit beside a larger group built on access someone was given.
When the Statements Stop Arriving
Two federal cases this month took money from older customers without a single scam call. The first visible sign was a change to the account record.
The Loan They Didn't Know They'd Signed
A federal reverse mortgage prosecution shows what equity extraction looks like when someone catches it. The instrument that counts elder exploitation was never built to.
Six Hundred Transactions
Two federal sentencings eleven days apart describe the same detection failure, and it is not one a threshold report can catch.
A Six-Year Sweepstakes Scheme Ends in a 66-Month Sentence
What a Brooklyn courtroom confirms this month about how prize-fraud schemes get built to last