“A 30-year-old Maryland man faces a series of terror-related charges involving his alleged receipt of nearly $9,000 in wire transfers in recent months from Islamic State terror group contacts in Egypt and Syria, federal authorities said. Mohamed Elshinawy of Edgewood, Md., is accused of receiving the payments in small amounts between March and late June and was allegedly instructed to use the funds for "operational purposes,'' according to court documents.”
Source: USA Today, 12/2015
“Seven people have been arrested after a grand jury indicted them for their alleged involvement in a fraudulent check cashing scheme, U.S. Attorney George Beck, Jr's office said Friday. The suspects, all from Montgomery, are said to have been running the ring out of the money center at the Walmart on Ann Street. In total, Beck's office says the U.S. Government and Walmart lost an estimated $290,000 in the scheme.”
Source: WFSA – Montgomery, AL, 11/2015