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Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. (January 3, 1956 – April 24, 2022) was an American political operative and convicted fraudster from the state of North Carolina. Dowless' actions were at the center of a fraud investigation following the 2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election. In February 2019, North Carolina's election commission ...
Federal official gratuity, mail fraud, Hobbs Act, and RICO: Wedtech scandal [15] Frank W. Boykin: House of Representatives: Alabama 1963: Federal official conflict-of-interest and conspiracy to defraud the United States [16] Democrat: Ernest K. Bramblett: House of Representatives: California 1954 Payroll fraud to cover kickbacks [17] Republican ...
The Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), [1] the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, [2] the Travel Act (enacted 1961), [3] the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (enacted 1970), [4] and the federal program bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 666 (enacted 1984), [5] permit the ...
Michael Smith, 52, was arrested by federal authorities for allegedly orchestrating an AI-aided music streaming fraud scheme that made him $10 million. 'Face the music': North Carolina man accused ...
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The following is an incomplete list of notable individuals that have entered an Alford plea.An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine) [4] [5] [6] in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and asserts innocence.
A music producer was arrested Wednesday and charged with multiple felonies for allegedly scamming more than $10 million in royalties using hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs. Michael ...
After Abagnale cashed a personal check made to look like a Pan Am paycheck, on July 30, 1970, in Durham, North Carolina, he again came to the attention of the FBI. He was arrested in Cobb County, Georgia, three months later, on November 2, 1970, after cashing ten fake Pan Am payroll checks in different towns. Abagnale escaped from the Cobb ...