This cop couldn’t help himself by running a lucrative scam!
And these two politicians just can’t seem to find themselves out of trouble.
Let’s get right into the worst people to put in charge!
5 - Side Gig UK Police Constable Daniel Aimson wanted to
supplement his income in order to enjoy the finer things in life: expensive meals, incredible
vacations, and whatever else he felt he and his wife 2deserved.
So obviously, the best way to do that was to sell hundreds of fully loaded cable boxes
online, as well as illegal substances.
Aimson’s cable boxes cost UK cable companies, including Sky TV and IPTV, anywhere from £500,000
to £5 million in lost pay-per-view subscription revenue.
Free Cable
Aimson sold roughly 1,640 cable boxes through various online outlets from Amazon to eBay.
His cable boxes were loaded with apps that allowed users to watch SKY TV, BT Sports,
as well as blockbuster movies for free by circumventing paywalls.
Aimson made over £655,000 from his sales.
Aimson and his wife Rachel weren’t exactly inconspicuous with their added income- they
regularly enjoyed fine dining meals at Michelin starred restaurants, often spending over £500
on the meals alone, taking vacations to luxury spots like Marbella, Spain and Venice, Italy,
as well as purchasing high end luxury items like Breitling and Rolex watches.
Aimson’s business achieved enough success that he was able to use the Barclaycard app,
Barclaycard being a major UK bank, for his web transactions.
Aimson laundered all incoming money through a bank account and firm he’d set up in Rachel’s
name, as well as funneling money through his mom and sister’s bank accounts.
While both Daniel and Rachel were charged, only Daniel was sent to prison after his guilty
plea, while his wife was able to walk.
Discovered
Aimson began running his cable box scheme while he was already out on bail for another
crime.
Aimson, a huge fan of Breaking Bad, was arrested for renting two houses on the same street
to produce and sell illegal organic substances, lifting the idea directly from the show.
He was known to be proud of his double life, and was often seen sporting his Heisenberg
t-shirt.
As his cable box business boomed, Barclaycard became suspicious of Aimson’s company, A1mson
Ltd., and after running a review of it, handed their suspicions over to authorities.
Aimson was investigated by the Federal Against Copyright Theft, known as FACT, a private
entity that specializes in copyright infringement.
FACT purchased one of Aimsons boxes alongside police, the illegal software was discovered
and Aimson was promptly taken back into custody.
Aimson was handed a 6 year and 4 month sentence for his previous crime, and an additional
12 months for his cable boxes.
Rachel pleaded not guilty to laundering, and her charges were allowed to lie on file, meaning
the courts had enough evidence to make a case but it was deemed no longer in the public’s
interest to do so.
The couple has since split- Rachel must not have wanted to be pen pals.
4 - Scam Games Ohio’s Mark and Sharon Dente were living
the American dream of owning their own successful real estate business buying and flipping houses.
By day, Mark was a basketball coach at a local highschool, and as a side hustle, he and his
wife Sharon started buying and flipping houses.
The only problem was they were doing it with other people’s money and the houses didn’t
exist.
Flipping
The Dente’s house flipping business bilked millions of dollars from investors in a Ponzi
scheme.
Simply put, a Ponzi scheme is a scam in which investors pay into an investment fund, in
this case real estate, and are then paid out initial inflated sums to lure other new investors
with the promise of huge gains- then rich friends go tell their rich friends.
When it comes time to pay out, the scammer pays with new investments.
As long as new investors keep contributing money, the scam works.
The Dentes claimed they were buying houses at low market costs, renovating, and quickly
flipping them under the cover of their seven businesses in their firm, Dente Businesses.
Dente’s initial pitch to potential investors leaned on the popular investment TV show Shark
Tank, where he simply explained how he could buy something for $1 and sell it for $3 and
promised investors returns as high as 20-35% over the course of nine months.
However, in true Ponzi fashion, the real estate deals investors were told about were fictitious.
As the business slowly became unmanageable and investors started having trouble getting
their payments, the whole scheme began to fall apart.
Dente’s company scrambled to issue promissory notes it couldn’t fulfill and requests for
patience as defaulted loans began to pile up.
Betrayed
So where did all this investment capital go?
You’d probably think the Dentes used it for charity work, or for fighting crime or
something.
But they actually bought a vacation home, paid off their own home, bought a house for
someone else, paid their children’s college tuition, bought jet skis and boats, ate at
fancy restaurants- which seems to be a theme with these guys- as well as covered their
own day to day living expenses.
Everything except actually buying and flipping houses.
Mark Dente is such a garbage human being that he had no issues scamming a friend he’d
known for 36 years.
She’s 77, and he took one and a half million from her without a second thought.
Dente ended up scamming over 690 investors out of $109 million dollars.
As of August, 2022, the court appointed a receiver- someone who manages property that’s
subject to a bankruptcy or foreclosure- to manage Dente’s properties and attempt to
recover the money to repay the victims.
Receivers often have the authority to sell off these properties and various other personal
assets in order to recover stolen money, but the process can take years.
3 - Not the Cops Deputy Joseph Bobadilla and Sergeant Rebecca
Evans, two off duty Sheriff’s deputies living in Dallas, Texas, were hired to guard a Home
Depot that had partially collapsed after a tornado hit.
With half the building exposed and no one watching, no one ever expected either of these
doers to be getting more done by walking off with over $2,000-$3,000 in merchandise.
Store Credit
The scam Bobadilla and Evans ran went something like this: Evans would walk into the store
and grab expensive tools as directed by Bobadilla, walking out with them under her coat.
She would then take pictures of the tools, text them to Bobadilla, who would come to
pick them up, and pay Evans her cut in the process.
Bobadilla then headed over to another Home Depot in full uniform, returning the still
wet, unopened merchandise for store credit.
Home Depot, being the observant little devils they are, quickly caught on.
The second time Bobadilla returned his stolen items, one of the boxes had marked 6503 on
it.
Bobadilla had no way of knowing that it was a store number, and guess what store that
was?
The one that got caved in by a tornado.
Once the Home Depot employees were aware of the scam, Bobadilla was unable to return any
more stolen merchandise.
After being unable to return items two times in a row, Bobadilla didn’t get suspicious
that Home Depot might be on to him.
Instead, Bobadilla returned days later to spend his store credit.
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Sentencing
After Home Depot’s corporate office tipped off the sheriff’s department, arrests of
both Bobadilla and Evans were promptly made, and both officers were terminated.
Sergeant Evans, a 16 year veteran, quickly waived her right to silence and allowed herself
to be interviewed by investigators.
According to Evans, the whole plot was Bobadilla’s idea, that he suggested how Evans was to sneak
the merchandise out, and admitted she had accepted two payments of $250 and $500 from
the ordeal.
Deputy Bobadilla had only been with the sheriff’s department for 5 years at the time of his
arrest.
He was sentenced to 45 days in jail as a part of his four years probation.
Evans was sentenced to two years probation and will serve no jail time.
According to Home Depot, the grand total of the theft and subsequent purchases with store
credit totaled $2,398.57, with $500 in merchandise still unaccounted for.
As of February 2022, both former officers would avoid conviction if they successfully
completed the terms of their probations.
The officers got off with relatively light punishments, but for Rebecca Evans, it looks
like a permanently tarnished 16 year reputation can be found on aisle 5 for only $750.
2 - Mr. Scandals Salim Mehajer can’t seem to stay out of
trouble.
Mehajer, a former Deputy Mayor of the City of Auburn, in New South Wales, Australia,
has sampled a whole buffet of criminal charges ranging from restraining orders, assault,
and drug charges, to various civil suits, driving offenses, and electoral fraud- it’s
like he went to a Golden Corral where the only thing served is all-you-can-eat felonies
and Mehajer was asked to leave because he ate too much.
Rigged In 2012, Mehajer and his sister Fatima worked
together to rig the election in Auburn that got Mehajer into office by enrolling voters
who didn’t live in Auburn to vote for him in Auburn.
Once in office Mehajer took advantage of what political clout he had to throw the most opulent
wedding Auburn has ever seen, shutting down major streets and having the wedding party
arrive in luxury cars and helicopters.
Mehajer was sentenced to only 21 months in prison for his election rigging, but would
be eligible for parole in 11.
At the time of his incarceration, Mehajer seemed very sure he wasn’t going to be put
away for very long telling reporters he might see them soon while strolling out of the courthouse,
like some sort of weird prophecy.
Fatima immediately pled guilty to her 77 charges and was given a two month jail sentence and
a $500 good behavior bond.
“Accident” What’s the best way to avoid one of your
many court appearances for assault?
If you guessed by not assaulting people, Salim Mehajer would disagree with you.
He would suggest that you pay some hapless woman and three of her family members $10,000
bucks to stage a slow speed car accident with your best friend Rafi Noori.
The plan was for Mehajer to get into an accident driving his $100,000 Mercedes SUV through
an intersection on his way to court.
Noori would ride in the passenger seat, in contact with a passenger in the backseat of
a rented Mitsubishi via cellphone, and attempt to coordinate their paths.
The first attempt failed as Mehajer arrived at the intersection too early and had to do
another lap around the block to try again.
5 minutes later and resetting their positions, the second attempt was successful in completing
the deliberate low speed collision- Mehajer was able to complain of neck and back pain
at the scene, and had to dramatically be cut from the vehicle- resulting in court being
adjourned!
Success!
When it came time to pay, his conspirators never received anything close to the promised
$10,000- instead receiving only $3,600, of which the driver and her husband received
a paltry $1,600.
It was discovered by the court that Mehajer had taken out a $150,000 insurance policy
on his own car nine days before the crash and filed a claim within hours of the crash.
The four accomplices quickly pled guilty once their involvement was discovered, and showed
sincere remorse for their actions.
Among fines, the driver and her husband received 1 year and 3 months, and 2 years respectively,
the back seat brother-in-law and his wife luckily got community service because they’re
parents to three young children.
So Mehajer orchestrated a car crash plot, totaled his own car, and ruined the lives
of four other people that he scammed as well, just to plead guilty to the assault charge
he was to appear in court for, and only got a 3 year good behavior bond as punishment.
At least he got new charges to add to his collection, pleading not guilty to perverting
the court of justice as well as conspiracy to defraud for his car crash scam and insurance
fraud.
Entitled
Mehajer was paroled 11 months after his initial sentencing for his election fraud, and he
did see reporters soon- his prophecy fulfilled.
So, instead of behaving, Mehajer quickly got himself arrested.
Again.
And was out on bail.
Again.
But Mehajer felt he should have less oppressive bail conditions set in his current situation
such as living back at his own mansion, a relaxed curfew, better internet access, and
the ability to return to social media, so he could better pay off the $20 million he
owed to the Australian Tax Office.
The judge, responding very much like a parent to a petulant teenager, said no to most of
this, and stated that not being allowed on Facebook and Twitter didn’t mean he was
being oppressed.
The judge did reduce one of his bail conditions to only having to check in 5 days a week,
so there’s that.
Since Mehajer was so concerned with the repayment of the owed $20 million, the first thing he
did to get cracking on this massive debt was to throw a 3 day birthday bash yacht party
for his Instagram model girlfriend, Melissa Tysoe.
The party had to take place only during the day so Mehajer could be home for his curfew,
and included multiple wardrobe changes for Tysoe, a massive floral arrangements spelling
her name on the back of the yacht, with balloons as various arrangements adorning the top and
sides, as well as several food items including mini-ice cream cones, several birthday cakes,
and chocolates.
A fireworks show ended the event, but Mehajer never got to see it because of his oppressive
curfew, and couldn’t even post pictures on his social media accounts!
Latest
Mehajer has so many charges and counts against him that we haven’t covered because it would
take too long and this isn’t a four part Netflix documentary.
But it could be, if you’re watching, Netflix.
As of June 2022, Mehajer was attempting to sue his 17 former business partners, the biggest
of them being SC Lowy Primary Investments and Alliance Property Group.
Mehajer received a loan for a proposed residential development in his hometown of Lidcombe, called
SkyPoint Tower, but defaulted on that loan.
Two of his development companies were eventually placed into liquidation by his creditors in
2017 in an attempt to resolve the default, and in 2018 Mehajer was declared bankrupt
still with a debt of $24 million.
In his lawsuit, Mehajer claimed the actions of the defendants prevented him from paying
his debt and caused him to suffer ‘nervous shock’.
Mehajer sought $52 million in damages, but suit was promptly thrown out as Mehajer was
found to be making baseless accusations against the defendants that he was forced to either
back off on or drop entirely.
The defendants then pointed out 10 other current lawsuits made by Mehajer that were likely
going to be unsuccessful as they were only meant to harass and annoy the other defendants.
Mehajer’s lawsuits failed so spectacularly that not only was he ordered to pay his defendant's
court costs, but he is also now banned from filing any sort of civil lawsuit in New South
Wales without permission of the courts after he was deemed a ‘vexatious litigant’.
He’s currently serving a 2 year 3 month term for lying under oath and won’t be eligible
for parole until January of next year.
1 - Cleared Andrew Yakubu must be the elusive Nigerian
prince that has been sending out all those successful emails requesting financial aid.
The former head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, was discovered to have millions
of dollars locked away in a safe in his house, and has been accused of money laundering.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, or the NNPC, is a formerly government owned
petroleum company operating in Nigeria and overseen by the Minister of Petroleum Resources,
Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Alison-Madueke appointed Yakubu as General Managing Director, or GMD, of the NNPC, naming
him the fourth new GMD in a five year span.
She publicly claimed Yukubu was chosen because he was an engineer with a sound technical
background that could guide and staff the NNPC’s newest strategic subdivision, the
Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, or NPDC.
Due to the high turnover of the GMD at the NNPC, sources close to Alison-Madueke said
her motives were more political, viewing Yakubu as more of a yes man than a leader.
Not long after Yakubu’s appointment to GMD, Alison-Madueke learned that he was anything
but a yes man, and the two aggressively butted heads non-stop for the entire two years Yakubu
was in office.
Raided Yakubu’s house in Kaduna, Nigeria, was raided
in February of 2017 after a tip to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, or EFCC,
a watchdog group funded by the Nigerian government to investigate financial crimes, often targeting
individuals laundering money.
During the raid, the EFCC found roughly $9.8 million dollars and £74,000 hidden in a safe
in Yakubu’s house.
Yakubu showed up days later to the EFCC’s office and admitted that the money and house
were his, but when asked to explain all that money, he said that it was all just gifts
from friends.
Aftermath
Surprisingly, the completely not shady explanation of the millions of dollars simply being gifts
wasn’t enough to get Yakubu’s case dismissed outright.
That took a few years.
After the EFCC closed its case against Yakubu, Yakubu in response filed a no-case submission,
in which the defendant claims the prosecution has failed to compile enough evidence to justify
a guilty verdict.
The presiding judge agreed with the no-case submission, citing the prosecution’s failure
to explain exactly how Yakubu came into all that money, and was inclined to dismiss the
whole case.
However, the judge was still unsatisfied with the totally legitimate ‘my friends gave
me some money’ explanation as well, and ordered Yakubu to defend himself again against
the money laundering charges.
Yakubu was acquitted of all charges in March of 2022, when it was found by a new presiding
judge that Yakubu not only had credible evidence, but was reliable as well- because apparently
Nigeria is in the Upside-Down and that makes sense.
More so, however, the judge scolded the inept prosecution for utterly failing to even investigate
Yakubu’s claims that the money was just gifts from friends.
Instead, the EFCC simply claimed that the money was given as a lump sum that had never
gone through a financial institution so it would better fit with their money laundering
charges.
Because the EFCC never offered its own explanation as to how Yakubu came into possession of the
money, the court felt the explanation wasn’t enough to refute Yakubu’s own evidence.
The judge was forced to rule in favor of Yakubu's shadow of doubt and promptly returned the
entirety of the confiscated sum.
Looks like our Nigerian Prince finally got his money back!
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