While most of us learned of Facebook’s planned initial public offering yesterday, Marianne A. Oleson of Oshkosh, Wis., has been selling shares in the popular social networking site since last 2011. Now the police have arrested her for fraud.
Reports claim he funded a lavish lifestyle and even passed himself off as a Tahitian prince in social circles, while police said it was one of the most significant fraud cases in the history of Australia.
As first reported by the Charleston Gazette, nearly 20 teens were found living in a South Charleston apartment last weekend, claiming to attend West Virginia Prep Academy, a fake school created by former New Mexico State basketball player Daniel Hicks.
Former cast members of the popular television show Happy Days claim they’re still owed merchandising revenue for their roles on a show that ended in 1984 after airing successfully for a decade. (via CNNMoney)
Too bad there’s no EZ-Pass out of jail.
Ashley Kirilow, the Canadian woman who swindled thousands of dollars in charitable donations in a fake cancer scam, has plead guilty to the most serious charge of fraud against her. NewsFeed first covered Kirilow’s scam back in August. (via CBC)
Say it ain’t so, Paul, say it ain’t so!
Remember in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, when Matthew Broderick faked a debilitating illness and it was cute and hilarious and everyone liked it? Turns out, in real life it’s just sort of sad and bewildering.
Jeanne Manunga was sentenced to a year in prison after a plot to get revenge on her ex went awry. Her first mistake? Coming up with a stupid plot.
The latest, greatest allegation to hit America’s police blotter? Pretending to hold a degree.
