(Image credit: Getty Images) You’ve spent years making careful, disciplined financial decisions. You’ve built a retirement plan, stuck to it and reached a point where you’re no longer wondering if you have enough. But you’re struggling with how to enjoy it. That’s more common than you might think. I meet a lot of people who […]
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A Fort Worth business owner who received nearly $5 million from local customers for unfinished custom home building and remodeling projects pled guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy charge on Dec. 30, 2025, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould. Court records reflect that Christopher Judge and his wife, Raquelle
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The former court clerk in South Carolina who helped out with the murder trial of attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty Monday to criminal charges for showing sealed court exhibits to a photographer and lying about it in court. Former Colleton County Clerk of Court Mary Rebecca “Becky” Hill pleaded guilty in Colleton County Circuit Court
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A Baltimore County jury has found Michael C. Okolo, of Parkville, Maryland, guilty of two counts of insurance fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. According to Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown Okolo was found to have twice misappropriated a client’s funds that were intended for life insurance and annuity policy premiums. After
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The owner of an iron and erection construction company was sentenced this week for underreporting payroll to avoid paying $600,000 in workers’ compensation policy premiums. According to Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly, business owner Mahendranauth Khargie of Rockville Centre and his company, GC Stud Inc., of Queens, pleaded guilty to insurance fraud in
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The director of a company at the center of a probe into the sale of counterfeit plane parts pleaded guilty to a charge of fraudulent trading. AOG Technics Ltd.’s director, Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Monday wearing a blue suit and tie, speaking only to confirm his name and enter
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A Fort Lauderdale-based advisor pleaded guilty to a scheme targeting Venezuelan citizens that defrauded investors of $94 million, according to the Justice Department. Andrew Jacobus pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in Florida federal court last week. Earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Jacobus in the scheme (at that time, the agency
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A former Connecticut police officer accused of mistreating prisoner Richard “Randy” Cox after he was paralyzed in the back of a police van pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor Wednesday and received no jail time, while three other officers chose to take their cases to trial. Betsy Segui, a former New Haven sergeant who supervised the
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A former director at a US military contractor that sells computer vulnerabilities pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing and reselling $35 million in trade secrets to a Russian cyber-tools broker whose clients include the Russian government. Peter Williams, 39, worked at Trenchant, an L3 Harris Technologies Inc. subsidiary that develops hacking tools and describes itself
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A Kentucky man entered a guilty plea to conspiring to defraud the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) in relation to an underground fire that occurred in the MC#1 Mine in Franklin County, Illinois, in August 2021. According to court documents, on Aug. 12, 2021, Timothy Parsons, 38, Louisa, Kentucky, was the Mine Manager
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