The Chatbot That Was Supposed to Save Schools: Inside the AllHere Education Fraud Case Education technology rarely makes national fraud headlines, but Joanna Smith-Griffin's story managed to combine two things that almost guarantee attention, a sympathetic mission involving vulnerable s...
The Smirk Heard Around the World: How Martin Shkreli Became America's Most Hated Man, Then Came Back Anyway Shunyatax News Analysis Some frauds are complicated to explain. Martin Shkreli's rise to infamy was not one of them. In 2015, he took a decades-old, life-saving drug and made it thirty times more expe...
The 4 Million Users Who Never Existed: How Charlie Javice Sold JPMorgan a Fantasy for 175 Million Dollars Shunyatax News Analysis Wall Street's biggest bank, run by one of the most respected dealmakers in American finance, spent 175 million dollars on a customer list that was mostly fiction. The story of ...
The Curtain Trick: How Elizabeth Holmes Fooled Kissinger, Mattis, and Silicon Valley With a Machine That Never Worked Shunyatax News Analysis Some frauds are built on complicated financial engineering that takes forensic accountants years to unravel. Elizabeth Holmes built hers on something far simpler, a curtain. Be...
The Algorithm That Lied: How Do Kwon's Terra-Luna Empire Wiped Out 40 Billion Dollars in 72 Hours Shunyatax News Analysis Every crypto crash has a villain and a victim, but the Terra-Luna collapse of 2022 managed to produce one of the strangest characters the industry has ever seen. Do Kwon, a Sta...
The $8 Billion Beanbag: How Sam Bankman-Fried Built and Burned the Crypto Empire Called FTX Shunyatax News Analysis There's a certain kind of story Silicon Valley loves to tell — the scruffy genius who skips the corner office, sleeps on a beanbag chair, and somehow ends up richer than entire...
When Share Transfers Raise Red Flags: What the Cressanda Solutions SEBI Notice Teaches About Market Compliance In the securities market, Compliance is often decided by details that may appear small at first. A disclosure made late. A share transfer recorded outside the exchange. A payment that does not match t...
When an Insolvency Process Becomes a Compliance Risk: Lessons From the Best Foods Money-Laundering Investigation Insolvency proceedings are built around a simple objective: protect the interests of creditors, preserve value and provide a structured process for resolving a company's financial distress. But the pr...
The ₹3,000 Crore Chhattisgarh Liquor Scam: What the ED Arrest Tells Us About Financial Crime and Compliance Financial crime investigations rarely begin and end with a single transaction. They often involve a much larger trail—how money was generated, who handled it, where it moved, and whether the people in...
When Wealth Does Not Match Income: What a ₹1.99 Crore PMLA Property Attachment Teaches Us About Financial Transparency A property purchase does not usually raise questions on its own. People buy land. They build homes. Family members provide financial support. Money moves between bank accounts. Gifts are received and ...
Indian Teenager Charged with Murdering Mother, Younger Brother in Massachusetts A 17-year-old boy of Indian origin has been charged with murdering his mother and younger brother at their family home in Acton, Massachusetts, officials said. Arjun Aravind has been charged with two ...
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Denounces Settler Siege on Palestinians as "Terror" The U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, a longtime and staunch supporter of West Bank settlements, denounced as "terror" a settler-led siege against Palestinians near Nablus on Thursday, an inci...
