We’ve written about the Justice family’s debts a lot. Because, frankly, there are a lot of them — seemingly multiplying by the day — and therefore we have much to […]
Tag: fraud
Marion County fraud probe yields charges for 3 people
BY MIKE NOLTING Three Marion County residents are facing charges after police allege they worked together to defraud a resident out of more than $17,000. The investigation began this past […]
When a thumbs-up emoji gets a defendant a thumbs-down from a court
by Stephen L. Carter Social media is all atwitter — um, all a-X-er? — about the emoji at the heart of the federal court ruling allowing a securities suit to […]
The state Board of Education’s big decision
The West Virginia State Board of Education meets this morning to accept the resignation of Superintendent David Roach. Roach’s forced retirement comes after Board President Paul Hardesty and other board […]
Will we ever truly know the depth of pandemic fraud?
The late American satirist P.J. O’Rourke once cracked that “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” The $32 trillion national debt […]
The DSF Stop saga
Originally meant to be told in three parts, the DSF Stop saga ended up being a seven-installment series examining how the outreach organization may or may not have misspent federal […]
The feds indicted Santos. Hopefully this will help push him out of office
Con(gress)man George Santos spent much of the day Wednesday in a federal building, but it wasn’t the Capitol where he casts votes and likes to make floor speeches. Instead Santos […]
The peril of charging Trump for bookkeeping fraud but not election lies
by Patricia Murphy Donald Trump has never been an understated man. His motto in life always seems to have been, “Why just do something when you can overdo it?” So […]
Allegations of credit card fraud can bring down conman Santos
After managing to wriggle out of consequences for his litany of lies, perhaps Con(gress)man George Santos may finally be running out of luck. Former associate Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha has sent […]
Read Biden’s lips: More new taxes
President Joe Biden has announced he will raise “some taxes” in the budget he is proposing this week to Congress. Biden again claims no one making less than $400,000 a […]
