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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Over Eight Years in Prison for iCare Founder Who Ran Prisoner Gift Basket Scam by Chuck Sharman Robert Rahrle, who took millions of dollars online selling gift baskets for prisoners that were never delivered, was sentenced to a 100-month federal prison term for wire fraud and tax evasion on June …
Disbarred Cincinnati Defense Attorney Who Defrauded Prisoner Clients Gets Three-Year Sentence by On March 10, 2025, the federal court for the Southern District of Ohio sentenced former Cincinnati defense attorney Richard Louis Crosby III to 37 months in federal prison for Social Security fraud. The 37-year-old pleaded guilty in July …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Former Kentucky Warden, Deputy Warden Accused of Overtime Fraud by The top two officials at Kentucky’s Southeast State Correctional Complex (SSCC) who abruptly left their jobs earlier in 2024 were accused of bilking the state of pay for hundreds of hours they didn’t work, according to analysis of records obtained …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Former Ohio Deputy Prison Warden Gets Probation for Overtime Fraud by The former Deputy Warden of Ohio’s Warren Correctional Institution was sentenced on March 20, 2024, to probation not exceeding five years, after pleading guilty to theft in office. Robert Welch, 57, admitted stealing over $19,000 in pay for overtime …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Arrested for Stealing Snacks, Baltimore Diabetic Dies in Jail by Louis Maurice Mason, a 67-­year-­old struggling with diabetes and a four-­decade cocaine addiction, died on March 8, 2024, in Baltimore’s jail system. Despite his deteriorating health, a judge had set his bail unaffordably high, effectively signing his death warrant. Mason’s …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
North Carolina Prison Official Pleads Guilty to COVID-19 Program Fraud by On August 15, 2023, the Associate Warden for Programs at North Carolina’s Bertie Correctional Institution pleaded guilty to COVID-19 program fraud. The state Department of Adult Correction (DAC) confirmed that Sean Tracy Dillard, 55, admitted scamming the North Carolina …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Maine Prison Official Charged with Theft and Bribery in Decade-Long Kickback Scheme by A deputy prison superintendent with the Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) was arrested and charged with theft and bribery on July 25, 2023. Gerald E. Merrill, 61, is accused of using his state-issued credit card over the …
Article • June 29, 2022
Filed under: Fraud and Theft Loss
Woman Masterminds $2 Million Unemployment Fraud from California Prison Cell by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A woman serving a life sentence in a California prison and a dozen accomplices she allegedly led were charged on May 18, 2022, in a scheme to defraud the state of at …
Brief • December 6, 2021
Brown v. Stored Value Cards, OR, Order Re Motion to Compel Arbitration, Prepaid Debit Cards, 2021 Case 3:15-cv-01370-MO Document 263 Filed 12/06/21 Page 1 of 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON PORTLAND DIVISION DANICA LOVE BROWN, individually and on behalf of all others similarly …