Category: Ethics

  • 1/16/2024 WSJ Notice the language of Morgan, did not admit or deny the fidings but did pay the fine. There is no end to this slap on the wrist type of enforcement, oh well just another cost of doing business. Surely Morgan employs legions of attorneys and CPAs who knew this was a violation, not…

  • Tuesday 1/16/2024 $3 Tillion in Illicit Funds Flowed Thru World Markets 2023 For Many, crime pays very well

  • Weekend Jan 14, 2024 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/texas-woman-accused-of-stealing-100-million-from-army-youth-program-and-spending-it-on-31-homes-and-aston-martins/ar-AA1mLZ0m https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-employee-defrauds-military-youth-program/#:~:text=A%20grand%20jury%20indicted%20Janet%20Yamanaka%20Mello%2C%2057%2C,by%20falsifying%20receipts%20and%20expenditures%20for%20the%20program. https://nypost.com/2024/01/11/news/texas-woman-janet-yamanaka-mello-accussed-of-defrauding-us-army/   IRS.gov https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/army-civilian-employee-indicted-in-san-antonio-for-alleged-100-million-fraud-scheme

  • Weekend Jan 13, 2024 Morgan Stanley MS -0.89%decrease; red down pointing triangle   agreed Friday to pay $249 million to settle criminal and regulatory investigations into allegations that some employees improperly shared information about clients’ stock sales, the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office said. The resolution ends a long-running probe into how the bank sold large…

  • 1/11/2024 anet Mello, who’s charged with bilking the Army of more than $100 million, came to the attention of federal investigators after the IRS flagged her as a possible tax cheat, according to court filings. Mello is accused of setting up a shell company to fraudulently collect money from a 4-H program for military families.…

  • 1/11/2024     A local business scammed its customers out of more than $200,000, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies arrested two men this week and said another suspect is still at large in connection with a food truck scam.  Omar Alexis Emmanuel Cruz, 39, was charged with engaging in organized crime and stealing…

  • Thursday Jan 11, 2024     Two wealthy businessmen who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from two nonprofit organizations — much of it donated by San Antonio-based WellMed Medical Management Inc. founder Dr. George Rapier III — are heading to prison. Hector Barreto, 62, of California, who led the nonprofits and served as an administrator of…

  • Moday Jan 8, 2024 hClick here for story An ex-bookkeeper at an Alamo Heights architecture firm is facing criminal charges related to a roughly $1 million embezzlement scheme. A federal grand jury in San Antonio on Wednesday indicted Sarah Jean Lingle, who worked as a bookkeeper and office manager at the Sage Group for almost five…

  • Weekend Dec 30 2023 \SBF Big Dem Donor Gets a Pass

  • Thursday  Dec 21 2023   Nikola's Trevor Milton gets four years for false statements Milton was convicted in October 2022 on one count of securities fraud and two counts of wire fraud, and acquitted on an additional securities fraud count. Nikola in 2021 agreed to pay $125 million to settle civil charges brought by the…