Number 7 Laura Buckingham Former Marine Laura Buckingham was sentenced
to 10 years of probation, in the spring of 2019, for trying to orchestrate her ex-boyfriend’s
murder.
Leading up to February of 2016, the Tennessee native had been embroiled in a bitter custody
battle with her ex, Bradley Sutherland. 29-year-old Buckingham, a respected veteran with multiple
tours of duty, hid her rage under a façade of domesticity through her work as a baker.
She, at one point, was pictured on the cover of Southern Indiana Living rolling dough with
her toddler child in her lap.
In February, Buckingham was living in Kingston with her boyfriend and fellow Marine Joseph
Chamblin.
His time in the corps had been marked by controversy as he’d been one of four Marines videotaped
urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters, in Afghanistan, in 2011.
The 17-second clip went viral and caused outrage, resulting in Chamblin being court-martialed
and demoted.
Buckingham told the former sniper that she wanted Sutherland to “go away” and asked
if he knew someone who could help.
Chamblin wanted no part in the plot and, after recording a few conversations with Buckingham
on the matter, went to the authorities.
The woman was then introduced to a potential hitman, who was actually an agent of the Tennessee
Bureau of Investigations.
Buckingham agreed to pay $30,000 for him to kill Sutherland, and handed over part of the
money.
Prior to Buckingham’s arrest, on February the 24th, law enforcement in Louisville asked
Sutherland to fake his death, as part of the investigation.
The man staged his own murder in a parking garage, an experience he later described as
traumatic, comparing the entire ordeal to a Hollywood movie.
Photos of the mock crime scene were sent to Buckingham, who then paid the undercover hitman
the rest of the money.
The woman, who’d once turned down a modeling career to join the Marines, pleaded guilty
to solicitation for first-degree murder, in December of 2018.
As reflected by court records, Buckingham blamed post-traumatic stress disorder from
her service in Iraq and Afghanistan for taking out the contract.
Number 6 Lamor Whitehead On May the 22nd of 2022, in what was reported
as an unprovoked attack, 25-year-old Andrew Abdullah gunned down Goldman Sachs employee
Daniel Enriquez, on the platform of a Manhattan-bound Q-train.
Abdullah later turned up at a legal aid office in Tribeca and his surrender was negotiated
by Lamor Whitehead, founder of the Leaders of Tomorrow International Church.
Whitehead showed up to the Fifth Precinct, in a luxury Rolls Royce and wearing a designer
blazer.
The high-profile case brought attention to the lavish lifestyle, dubious dealings and
checkered past of the man whom some media outlets had nicknamed the “bling-bling bishop”.
In the mid-2000s, he’d operated an extensive fraud and identity theft operation through
which he’d taken out over $2 million in loans.
The money was primarily used to purchase Range Rover cars.
More than 50 victims, from states including Tennessee, Georgia and New York, had had their
identities stolen.
Whitehead served five years at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility and was released in
2013.
Within a year, he founded his ministry, registered as a for-profit business and marked by various
shady practices.
Whitehead claimed to have started a youth mentorship program with the collaboration
of the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office and the NYPD.
Both institutions refuted his claims, with the former sending him a cease-and-desist
letter.
While ostentatiously displaying his wealth in public, the bishop was sued in 2011 by
parishioner Pauline Anderson who claimed he’d stolen her lifesavings after promising to
help her purchase a home.
Whitehead at the time was running for Brooklyn Borough president and allegedly told Anderson
he’d used her $90,000 as a donation towards his campaign.
Leading up to 2022, the bishop stated he’d never solicited funds, even though his ministry’s
website had a donate button.
For years, Whitehead had maintained a close relationship with New York City Mayor Eric
Adams.
Some suspected that it enabled the bishop to maintain the appearance of functionality
for his church in lieu of a noticeable fall from grace.
In July of 2022, Whitehead and his wife were robbed at gunpoint of roughly $1 million in
jewellery during their church’s services.
Many were unsympathetic to the bishop’s plight, particularly given his constant flaunting
and the refocused attention on the Anderson suit.
Number 5 Rebekah Warren Close to midnight, on December the 26th of
2019, Michigan officers initiated a traffic stop in Auburn Hills, after they’d received
multiple calls about a Jeep Cherokee moving erratically.
The driver was a visibly intoxicated woman who, through her slurred speech and stumbling
movements, revealed that she was a US senator.
48-year-old Michigan Representative Rebekah Warren failed her field sobriety test as she
was unable to walk in a straight line or recite the alphabet.
She refused to submit to a breathalyzer test but a search warrant later led to her blood
being withdrawn at a local hospital.
Warren was revealed to be nearly three times over the legal limit.
She was subsequently charged under Michigan’s “Super Drunk” Law, which imposed severe
penalties for drivers found with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.17 or greater.
During the arrest, which was captured on dashcam video, Warren told officers that she was going
to be “the most famous arrest” they ever made, that they were going to be on TV and
called the incident “career-ending”.
The latter statement came to fruition.
In February of the following year, Warren pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of misdemeanor
driving while intoxicated.
She was sentenced to one year of probation and 10 days of community service.
The incident severely affected her political presence and she didn’t seek reelection
in 2020.
Number 4 Dale Massad Port Richey Mayor Dale Massad resigned from
his position, on February the 22nd of 2019, the day after a police raid had gone wrong
at his central Florida home.
68-year-old Massad was a known drug user with a history of violence, his most recent arrest
having occurred for a domestic incident.
Massad’s troubles with the law hadn’t derailed the former laser surgeon’s political
career.
However, he was then wanted by the authorities for practicing medicine without a license,
following revelations that he was still seeing patients at his home, in spite of having given
up his license in the early 1990s.
A SWAT team thus went to his address, on February the 21st, to execute a search warrant.
As later reported by Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco, Massad was known to own multiple
guns.
Given his pattern of aggressive and threatening behavior, the SWAT team involved in the raid
knew, according to Nocco, they were heading into a high pressure situation.
Massad fired two shots at the officers when they entered his house.
Fortunately, no serious injuries were reported and the gun-toting mayor was taken into custody.
Massad later tried to pursue Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law, claiming he’d thought the
officers were actually home intruders.
He was charged with multiple counts of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer.
Massad struck a plea deal and admitted aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, a weapons
charge, resisting arrest with violence and practicing medicine without a license.
The disgraced mayor was sentenced to three years in prison.
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Number 3 Ike Ekweremadu On May the 5th of 2022, a homeless man in
his early 20s went to London’s Staines Police Station claiming he’d been brought to England
for his organs to be harvested.
An investigation was launched and traced the allegations to high-ranking Nigerian politician
Ike Ekweremadu, aged 60, and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka.
The former was a member of the Nigerian Senate, who’d served as its Deputy President for
three consecutive terms.
The unnamed victim, a man from Lagos, had been taken to the UK on arrangements made
by Doctor Obinna Obeta, from Southwark, south London, specifically for his organs to be
harvested.
As reported by prosecutors, Ike and his wife had planned to have the man’s kidney removed
so that it could be given to their daughter.
He refused to consent to the procedure, after undergoing tests at the Royal Free Hospital
in Hampstead, north-west London.
The victim also revealed that his treatment by the Ekweremadus, following his refusal,
had been akin to slavery.
He was eventually able to flee the house where he’d been kept and was homeless for three
days before turning up at the police station.
Ike and Beatrice were arrested at Heathrow Airport, on June the 21st, after arriving
on a flight from Turkey.
During their bail hearing, in July, they denied any wrongdoing and that any exploitation had
occurred.
50-year-old Obeta was charged under the Modern Slavery Act for arranging or facilitating
travel of another person with a view to exploitation and conspiring together with Ike to arrange
or facilitate the travel of another person with a view to exploitation.
The three defendants were set to go to trial for their alleged crimes, as of the latest
updates available on the case.
Number 2 Wisdom Awute A young member of Grammy-nominated rapper
DaBaby’s entourage was arrested for attempted murder, in early June of 2021, following his
involvement in a shooting in Ocean Drive, Miami Beach.
21-year-old Wisdom Awute, a promising rapper signed to DaBaby’s Billion Dollar Baby Entertainment
label, was arrested and charged alongside Christopher Urena, aged 29.
An argument had occurred between the latter and a group of men, along the Strip of Art
Deco hotels and restaurants.
It culminated with him brandishing a handgun and opening fire on them, with Awute following
suit.
Two people near the Prime 112 restaurant were struck by stray bullets.
Both of the unnamed victims were taken to the Jackson Memorial Hospital, where one was
treated and sent home while the other remained in critical condition and was reported as
paralyzed.
DaBaby was held for questioning in the shooting’s aftermath but was later released while Awute
and Urena were kept behind bars awaiting the legal proceedings associated with the case.
Number 1 Ron Jeremy Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, professionally known
as Ron Jeremy, was at one point ranked by Adult Video News as the number one adult film
star of all time and broke the record for most appearances, with over 2,000 starring
roles.
Jeremy was also highly protected by the industry and took advantage of his position to assault
countless women.
While prevalent in the adult performer community, his abusive behavior went largely undetected
in the mainstream media.
His popularity kept growing, amassing millions of fans through his goofy, comedic persona
and he raked in millions of dollars through various ventures, backed by his position as
the king of adult entertainment.
Then, in 2017, a YouTube video posted by webcam model Ginger Banks detailed the many accusations
against Jeremy.
It triggered an investigation by the LA Times and, before long, the authorities followed
suit.
On August the 25th of 2021, Jeremy was indicted on a total of 30 counts of assault against
21 women.
Fellow actress Ginger Lynn was among his first alleged victims.
She and Jeremy were at a Hawaiian hotel, in 1983, while they were filming a movie together.
Lynn was, at the time, engaged to a co-star and celebrating her 21st birthday on the beach.
When she went to change in a bathroom, Jeremy followed her inside and forced himself upon
her.
Adding to her ordeal, the following day, Lynn had to shoot a scene with her abuser.
In 2000, Jeremy assaulted British adult actress Lianne Young, in a crowded nightclub, with
multiple witnesses.
The attitude that they’d had towards the incident reflected how untouchable Jeremy
was at the time, when someone told Young “that’s just what Ron does”.
As Jeremy’s fame grew so did the brazenness of his attacks, with some openly occurring
at fan conventions or various bars and nightclubs, predominantly in West Hollywood.
His victims, many of whom were in the adult industry, were hesitant to speak out because
of Jeremy’s power and influence while also fearing that they wouldn’t be believed,
given their profession.
The disgraced performer fully denied the accusations, claiming his victims had “buyer’s remorse”.
As of the latest updates on the case, the trial against 69-year-old Jeremy was suspended,
in March of 2022, pending a mental health evaluation, as he’d become incoherent in
court and didn’t recognize his attorney.
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