If you get scammed by this, you deserve it. “The hidden market for fake vaccine cards has been growing as more states start to enforce vaccine mandates for public gatherings, and employers require proof of vaccination,” the Guardian reported (here), and “many of the people offeri[...]
Posts Tagged ‘fraud’
November 5th, 2021 - 1:28 pm § in Law and Courts
Followup: Derek Chauvin’s tax troubles and strategic divorce
Prosecutors have filed tax evasion charges against convicted killer cop Derek Chauvin and his wife Kellie (photo, left), a former “Mrs. Minnesota,” alleging they concealed nearly half a million dollars of income in the five years preceding Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd. They als[...]
October 25th, 2021 - 2:57 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Portrait of a thief
This attractive woman leaning on a fancy car isn’t a model posing for a car ad. She’s a criminal, and bought the car with proceeds from a fraud scheme. (Read story here.) Back in 2014, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (how do newspapers come up with such names?) lauded her as a hard-working b[...]
Pennsylvania’s 3 known voting fraud cases involve Trump supporters
Following the contentious 2020 presidential election, a total of 3 Pennsylvania residents have been charged by authorities with voting fraud. Bruce Bartman, 70, used his dead mother’s driver’s license to obtain an absentee ballot and voted in her name. He used his late mother-in-law̵[...]
September 29th, 2020 - 7:49 am § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Watergate prosecutor: Trump and Ivanka are jail bait
A former Watergate prosecutor who investigated Nixon’s taxes says the revelations about Trump’s taxes could send him and his daughter to prison. Read story here. “Tax evasion is a five-year felony,” said Nick Akerman. “It’s a pretty serious crime, and the more mon[...]
September 14th, 2020 - 3:04 pm § in Politics
GOP hoaxer gets caught staging fake FBI raid on himself
If you see the name “Jacob Wohl” on anything, write it off as a hoax. Because it is. That includes today’s FBI raid on Wohl’s partner in intellectual crimes, Jack Burkman, which was staged by Wohl and Burkman with actors hired through Craigslist posing as FBI agents. The sche[...]
January 3rd, 2020 - 9:00 pm § in Misc.
Fraud prevention alert: Dating documents
When dating checks, contracts, and legal documents this year, write the entire year date — e.g., don’t write 1/3/20, write 1/3/2020 — otherwise the year can be changed. For example, a date written as “1/3/20” is easily changed to “1/3/2019” simply by adding two more numbers.[...]
September 20th, 2016 - 8:14 am § in Misc.
The web is perverse: Rumors of the death of Bishop Tutu
Yesterday THE.Ave.US reported a long that sais Desmond Tutu had died. SAD NEWS: Desmond Tutu Dead At 84 After Readmission On Saturday This morning, there are no confirmations, no follow up stories and several web sites say this is a sad fraud. The web is perverse. [...]
Faux persecution of bible reading kid.
Viral story about Bible-hating Missouri teacher falls apart after principal investigates A Kansas City middle schooler and his parents complained the 12-year-old’s teacher stopped him from reading the Bible during free time, but their story fell… rawstory.com[...]
December 26th, 2014 - 1:31 am § in Misc.
GOP Blames Obama For Bad Christmas .. Economy Rises 5%
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