criminals The psychology of "super embezzlers" — brilliant thieves who enjoy outsmarting those around them Mark Frauenfelder
crime Oregon newspaper lays off staff and ends print edition after embezzler drains funds Rob Beschizza
politics Why was Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders' fancy $19,000 lectern put on a government credit card? Rob Beschizza
george santos George Santos confesses to theft in Brazil, must pay fines and restitution Mark Frauenfelder
police Fugitive, once chief-of-staff to a Maryland governor, Roy McGrath shot dead by the FBI Jason Weisberger
art A Brazilian woman used fake psychics to steal over $150 million in art from her mother Devin Nealy
Where there is money there is racism White guy wants to seize control of predominantly black Tennessee town because suddenly there will be money Jason Weisberger
state-embedded criminal actors Mayor is shocked — shocked, I tell you — to learn his truck had over 440 pounds of cocaine in it Mark Frauenfelder
movies Felony charges for woman who rented Sabrina The Teenage Witch 21 years ago and failed to return it Rob Beschizza
Comic Books This white collar dot-com true crime story about Stan Lee's media company is absolutely wild Thom Dunn
russia 26-year-old Israeli-American sentenced to 7.5 years in Russian prison for 9 grams of weed Mark Frauenfelder
News List of thousands of criminal cops accidentally released under public records laws, now CA AG threatens 2 reporters with legal action for having a copy Xeni Jardin
china Two Goldman Sachs bankers charged in multibillion-dollar Malaysian money-laundering scam Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The world's worst money launderers are the UK, Switzerland and the USA Cory Doctorow
trumpism Applicants for the Customs and Border Protection agency keep admitting to ghastly crimes during polygraph tests Cory Doctorow