Former New York Mafia made member John Pennisi speaks to insider about how the mob actually works.
Pennisi was born and raised in an Italian New York neighbourhood where the mob had huge influence. He speaks on how he ended up being an associate with the Gambino family through John Gotti Jr. before he eventually became a made member of the Lucchese crime family in 2013. John says he decided to leave the mob in 2018; after members of his crew falsely accused him of cooperating with law enforcement. Since leaving the mob John has been writing blogs on sitdownnews.com and also producing podcast covering topics of organised crime on https://www.youtube.com/c/Sitdownnews. Two people were sentenced to prison for soliciting elderly victims for money. Linda and Richard were sentenced to 37 months and 19 months, respectively. The man gave over half a million dollars. He thought he was talking to a widow. Two people were sentenced Friday to more than a year in prison for their involvement in a romance scam that cost a 78-year-old Virginia man more than $500,000. Prosecutors said Linda and Richard worked with several other people to trick elderly people into sending them cashier's checks, wires, and Apple products. A 78-year-old Virginia man joined a dating app. According to court documents, he chatted with one of the unnamed co-conspirators he believed to be a woman from New York. According to the documents, the person sent him photos of herself that were similar to the description. The pair talked on the phone. According to court documents, the FBI viewed conversations from September to June 2020. At some point, one of the co-conspirators claimed she was going to Germany in order to receive an inheritance of gold bars. She put him in touch with someone she claimed was a financial advisor. The man was told by the co-conspirators that they would use the money to free the woman from jail. The court documents said that the Virginia man sent 53 packages of Apple products. She asked for more money for bail and for insurance to send the gold to the US from the Netherlands. The Federal Trade Commission says that romance scam have been very successful in recent years. The agency said individuals have lost over a billion dollars in the last five years. Authorities said that a 74-year-old woman from Colorado was also a victim of the scam. According to court records, she sent them a cashier's check from her retirement savings. The Washington Post reported that prosecutors said that the two men were not involved in deceiving victims, but that they laundered the money overseas. The defendants impersonated military service members, diplomats, and others to deprive elderly victims of their retirement savings, said Raj Parek, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Broni told the FBI that he initially thought his business dealings were legitimate, but he later learned it was a scam. He thought he made $30,000. She admitted she was involved in the criminal enterprise. The Associated Press reported that the two apologized in sentencing memos. I have to tell my ugly truth. I was selfish, ambitious and greedy for success, and I made $250,000 from the scam, according to the FBI. The two men were sentenced to 37 months and 19 months, respectively, for engaging in a monetary transaction in criminally derived property. The two people who agreed to pay the most money for the victims were Mbimadong and Broni. The Post reported that Judge T.S. Ellis said the sentences for the two people would have been higher but for their cooperation with authorities. The original article can be found on Insider. The identity of Q, the founder of the QAnon movement, may have been revealed with help from machine learning software. A photo from her college days is being posted to her social media accounts. Few know that Amazon has millions of Prime subscribers. 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In total, the Virginia man lost $580,000 in the scams, prosecutors said
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