A bank employee is pleading guilty to stealing from the lender’s customers and lying to conceal her guilt, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

The Eastern District says Truist Bank employee, Ahshah Dior Martin, stole $195,000 from at least 70 Truist Bank accounts.

Martin started gathering banking information on her would-be victims in 2023 after improperly accessing the bank’s computer systems.

“Then, she initiated fraudulent debits and withdrawals from these accounts for her own benefit. For instance, Martin repeatedly initiated payments from customer bank accounts to a child support payment processor, through which Martin paid herself.”

The victims Martha stole from while working at Truist Bank were diverse and comprised of both individuals and entities, according to the Eastern District. They included “multiple churches, a children’s museum, an eye tissue bank non-profit organization, manufacturing and construction companies, a small business making customized holsters, and the North Carolina Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.”

Truist Bank fired Martin in April of 2024 but she frustrated efforts by the eighth-largest US bank by total assets to retrieve the computer she had been issued at work.

“To conceal her wrongdoing and prevent the return of her Truist laptop, Martin faked her own death. On April 17, 2024, in response to an email from Truist asking for the computer, Martin responded, “Sorry to inform you, she has passed away.””

The former Truist Bank employee spent the money she stole on “cosmetic products, clothing, travel expenses, dining, and at a hookah bar,” the Eastern District says.

Martin faces up to three decades in prison. She will be sentenced in November.

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A scammer pleaded guilty after participating in a scheme that convinced the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to pay out $10 million in fraudulent refunds.

Brooklyn resident Xerxes Shevar, 57, was part of a prolific international conspiracy ring involving scammers in the United States, Ghana, Nigeria and Ireland, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

The US Attorney says the conspirators obtained stolen identity info on the internet and then submitted fraudulent federal tax returns under the names of those identities. The alleged scammers also opened bank accounts in those names to receive the returns from the IRS.

One of Shevar’s co-conspirators alleges the scam ring attempted to secure around $38 million from the IRS between the tax years 2010 and 2013 and ended up receiving more than $10 million.

The scammers allegedly used stolen identities to open 3,493 bank accounts and obtain 4,563 credit cards across 443 financial institutions. In all, the scam ring allegedly victimized 11,468 individuals.

Shevar was arrested in February 2024 when he returned to the United States from Ghana. The Brooklyn resident was convicted of wire fraud conspiracy, and US District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter sentenced him earlier this month to three years of probation. The judge also ordered him to pay $290,000 in restitution.

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An associate banker at a large national bank is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from customers in a span of just two months.

According to the Northern District of California’s U.S. Attorney’s Office, Sixto Christopher Porras allegedly stole approximately $440,000 from two retail bank customers while stationed in San Francisco.

In each of the cases, Porras managed to drain the bank accounts using the customer’s existing debit cards or replacements.

The first incident occurred in August of 2023 after a customer walked into the bank to conduct a wire transfer, according to the Northern District of California’s U.S. Attorney’s Office.

“As the transfer was processed, Porras obtained from the customer the security personal identification number associated with the customer’s debit card. Unbeknownst to the customer, Porras kept the customer’s debit card. Porras allegedly proceeded to use the debit card to embezzle approximately $100,000 from the customer’s account.”

The second incident took place about a month later.

“In or about September 2023, another retail bank customer visited the branch to address a fraudulent charge. As Porras assisted the customer, he obtained the security PIN associated with the customer’s debit card. Porras then caused the customer’s debit card to be reissued and sent to Porras’ San Francisco residence. Porras allegedly proceeded to use the debit card to embezzle approximately $340,000 from the customer’s accounts.”

Porras, who currently no longer works with the unnamed bank, is now facing charges of embezzlement of bank funds and access device fraud. For the embezzlement charge, Porras could get a maximum of up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine if convicted. The access device fraud charge carries a maximum of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.

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A Cleveland bank teller has reportedly been accused of forging names and other documents to drain tens of thousands of dollars out of customers’ bank accounts.

According to a new report by a local news outlet, federal prosecutors say that Denice James, a teller at First Federal Savings of Lorain, allegedly stole approximately $75,000 from eight different victims by faking documents and embezzled $1,000 from the bank itself.

The report says that James stole the money between July 25, 2023, and November 2, 2023, by forging customers’ names on bank slips and submitting them right before the bank closed, as no customers were inside. She would then process the withdrawals and take the cash for herself.

She has been charged with eight counts of bank fraud, eight counts of aggravated identity theft, and one count of embezzlement, to which she has pleaded not guilty.

This incident is the latest in a string of fraud schemes involving bank tellers. In May, a bank teller in Maryland pleaded guilty to stealing $255,000 from his employer’s elderly clients by having conspirators impersonate victims to make fraudulent bank withdrawals.

In March, a bank teller from New York, whose job it was to tally up money at the end of the day, was accused of stealing $1,000,000 in cash from his bank’s vault by forging signatures.

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Dogecoin’s once-upbeat trading crowd has been blindsided by an unlikely catalyst: an increasingly personal clash between two of the token’s highest-profile enthusiasts, Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump.

As their barbs ricocheted across X and Truth Social in recent days, fresh regulatory and political worries surfaced, draining risk appetite and pushing the DOGE price more than 10% lower to an intraday trough near $0.17.

With a jump in 24-hour turnover to about $1.63 billion, that slide has cut Dogecoin’s market share to 0.83% of total crypto value, its weakest dominance reading in two months.

Musk-Trump Feud Saps Meme-Coin Morale

The feud mushroomed over just three days. Tensions flared Tuesday when Musk publicly branded Trump’s signature “big, beautiful” tax-and-spending package a “disgusting abomination,” stunning Republican allies.

By Thursday, the billionaire had dredged up years-old GOP warnings from Trump about ballooning deficits, prompting Trump to threaten Musk with losing his lucrative federal contracts for SpaceX and Tesla.

Allies on both sides piled in through Friday, amplifying the spat and highlighting how quickly a long-standing alliance (Musk was an Oval Office regular only weeks ago) can curdle when big-ticket legislation is at stake.

DOGE Price On-Chain and Market Data Point to Waning Confidence

Blockchain analytics show a sharp uptick in coins moving from long-term wallets to exchanges, echoing the bearish narrative in derivatives desks where funding rates have drifted negative.

Four-hour Bollinger Bands confirm heightened volatility: the DOGE price kissed the lower band at $0.17 on heavy volume before clawing back toward the midline.

Meanwhile, the Relative Strength Index sank into oversold territory last week and now hovers at 39.7—a tentative uptick that hints at bargain hunting but falls short of signaling a decisive reversal.

Technical Picture: DOGE Price Support Holds but Resistance Looms

Technically, Dogecoin continues to build a fragile base on the $0.1670 to $0.1700 horizontal support level after retracing roughly 35 % from its early-May peak.

Today’s rebound left spot at $0.179, yet the token still trades beneath a formidable confluence zone at $0.1797 to $0.1850, which aligns with the Fib 0.618 retracement and a stack of bearish moving averages: a 20-day EMA at $0.2016, 50-day at $0.2069, and 100-day at $0.2011.

Unless the DOGE price can close a daily candle above the 20-day EMA, rallies will likely be dismissed as dead-cat bounces rather than a bona fide trend change. Failure to conquer that ceiling would refocus attention on the springboard support.

A sustained break below $0.1670 would expose the Fib 0.786 level at $0.1576, with little chart structure until the early-April swing low around $0.13, an air pocket that could see another 30% shaved off the DOGE price if bearish momentum accelerates.

What Could Drive Dogecoin’s Next Move

In the immediate term, sentiment headlines may matter as much as candlesticks.

A public reconciliation between Musk and Trump, or even a fresh meme-worthy endorsement tweet, could reignite retail appetite and push the DOGE price through $0.1850, opening the way toward $0.20 and the clustered 20 to 100-day EMAs.

Conversely, any escalation in the feud, fresh regulatory chatter, or broader risk-off moves in crypto could see sellers test dip-buyers’ patience yet again. For now, Dogecoin sits on a knife-edge: fundamentals lean bearish while momentum oscillators hint at recovery potential.

Traders with a short time frame may scalp long positions toward $0.1850, but given the precarious backdrop, tight stops below $0.1700 are essential. Swing traders might instead await a daily close above $0.20 to confirm trend reversal, or look to accumulate only if the DOGE price washes out toward $0.1576, where risk-reward improves dramatically.

Until one of those decisive signals emerges, patience or strictly defined risk appears to be the most prudent course.

A Nevada man has been sentenced to prison for defrauding the government of millions of dollars by stealing US Treasury checks and the identities of their rightful recipients.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah says 41-year-old Kyle Eugene Duncan-Carle has been sentenced to 72 months in prison after he admitted to committing bank fraud.

Authorities say that between January and September 2023, Duncan-Carle stole US Treasury checks that were already made out to people or companies and stole their identities to open credit union accounts under their names. He subsequently deposited the checks to be able to withdraw the funds, according to prosecutors.

All in all, Duncan-Carle admitted to stealing at least eight Treasury checks totaling $7.97 million.

In the end, authorities say the victims, which include the US government, financial institutions and an insurance provider, sustained $3.49 million in losses.

Duncan-Carle’s sentence also includes five years of supervised release after his six-year stint behind bars and an order to pay restitution to his victims.

He was reportedly arrested in Lyon County, Nevada, last year and charged with bank fraud, aggravated identity theft and receipt of stolen government property.

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