B.C. Securities Commission identifies more than 100 money mules in investment fraud cases

B.C. Securities Commission identifies more than 100 money mules in investment fraud cases

… According to Canada’s anti-money-laundering watchdog, FinTRAC, organized-crime groups based in India have been recruiting people living in Canada – often vulnerable young men from India on study permits – to launder the proceeds of extortion targeting Canada’s South Asian diaspora. The BCSC only has jurisdiction when the dirty money is linked to an investment fraud, according to Mr. Wu.

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NYC woman declined to press charges against subway shover ‘because she didn’t want to put another black man in jail’… weeks later he allegedly killed retired teacher, 76, at station

NYC woman declined to press charges against subway shover ‘because she didn’t want to put another black man in jail’… weeks later he allegedly killed retired teacher, 76, at station

A young woman in New York City said she declined pressing charges against a violent suspect because she didn’t want to put ‘another black man in jail,’ weeks before he allegedly killed a 76-year-old retired teacher.

The 23-year-old woman anonymously detailed how she and a friend narrowly escaped Rhamell Burke, 32, after he allegedly attacked them while riding the subway on April 2.

The straphanger told the New York Post she now completely regrets her decision not to work with prosecutors after Burke was charged with murder on Friday for allegedly shoving 76-year-old Ross Falzone down a flight of stairs to his death at a subway station Thursday night.

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‘Numerous failure controls’ and ‘non-compliance’ — what the audit of Conestoga College found that prompted the province to take it over

‘Numerous failure controls’ and ‘non-compliance’ — what the audit of Conestoga College found that prompted the province to take it over

Conestoga College handed out pay raises with no justification, awarded contracts to higher bidders without explanation, allowed an executive to take part in recruiting their daughter into a management position, and had such poor oversight of procurements and purchase orders that one for $11,000 was recorded at $126 billion — and no one noticed.

These are among the damning details contained in a recent, confidential two-part audit of the Kitchener-area college that rates the school as “high” risk, according to executive summaries obtained by the Star.


The foreign student program was pure gangsterism made for Conestoga.

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Canada to create new Financial Crimes Agency, but will it have a B.C. base?

Canada to create new Financial Crimes Agency, but will it have a B.C. base?

A recently announced federal law enforcement agency dedicated to investigating financial crimes will take years to set up, and to be effective, the Ottawa-headquartered force will need to have a presence in places like B.C., say policing experts.

The new Financial Crimes Agency will be allowed to create offices outside of its head office, under legislation introduced at the end of April, but it’s unclear if that will happen.

The new agency is meant to investigate things like cross-border money laundering, a hot-button issue in B.C. in the past decade and the subject of several government reports and inquiries.

“You can’t investigate this stuff from a distance,” said Peter German, the author of two B.C. government reports on money laundering and a former deputy commissioner of the RCMP.

(more…)

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That’s a lot of guns …

That’s a lot of guns …

Three Men Charged With Attempted Smuggling Of 89 Firearms

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Assistant Director in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), James C. Barnacle, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”), Bryan DiGirolamo, announced today the arrest of MALIK BROMFIELD, FAIZAN ALI, and KAMAL SALMAN, who are charged with multiple offenses relating to the transporting of 89 firearms, including at least 17 that were reported stolen, and attempting to smuggle those firearms to Canada. BROMFIELD, ALI, and SALMAN were presented before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy in White Plains federal court, and detained.

Bromfield and Salman are Canadian.

h/t Patti Jo & Mauser

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Sentence hiked for man who cut off woman’s finger and forced her to eat it

Sentence hiked for man who cut off woman’s finger and forced her to eat it

An appeal court in Alberta has nearly doubled the sentence for a man who cut off a woman’s finger and then forced her to eat her own severed digit, saying in a ruling that the original judge downplayed the victim’s suffering and terror.

Stephen Ralph Potts was convicted of aggravated assault after inviting an Indigenous woman to his home in the northern community of Chateh and attacking her in April 2024.

Court heard during trial that Potts, who is also Indigenous, punched the woman repeatedly in the face without warning or provocation, breaking bones. He then ordered her to splay out her fingers, saying he was going to cut off her finger.


Still seems light to me.

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“Toronto Men”

“Toronto Men”

Arrests made in Guelph human trafficking investigation

Guelph police have arrested and charged two men from Toronto as part of an ongoing human trafficking investigation.

According to police, the suspects were to have engaged in the trafficking and sexual exploitation of two youths from Guelph.

h/t Patti Jo

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$1.5M bail revoked for alleged Project South drug trafficker accused of bribing Toronto cops

$1.5M bail revoked for alleged Project South drug trafficker accused of bribing Toronto cops

An alleged drug trafficker accused of obtaining confidential information from a Toronto police officer, which investigators say was used in an unsuccessful conspiracy to kill a senior corrections officer, was back in custody Tuesday morning after his bail was revoked.

The Crown asked for a Superior Court review of the decision to release Brian Da Costa on a $1.5 million bail in early March. Justice Rita Maxwell ordered his detention and vacated the lower court’s decision, which saw Da Costa released under house arrest supervised by three sureties.

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Request for a New Trial Denied as Judge Unleashes Cataract of Criticism at the Jailed Mogul

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Request for a New Trial Denied as Judge Unleashes Cataract of Criticism at the Jailed Mogul

The denial, “with prejudice,” by Judge Lewis Kaplan of a request for a new trial by the imprisoned crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried is yet another setback for the man who once bestrode American financial and political life like a colossus.Bankman-Fried is fighting for his freedom from behind bars at a federal prison in California after his conviction on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy. He contends that new witnesses have emerged whose testimony could make a difference to the question of his guilt.

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‘Crime has just blown out of control here’: The businessman challenging Hamilton’s NDP mayor

‘Crime has just blown out of control here’: The businessman challenging Hamilton’s NDP mayor

This fall’s Ontario municipal elections are shaping up as the most compelling in years, thanks to stark left-right battles.

Much of the conversation has centred around Toronto, where Councillor Brad Bradford is challenging NDP stalwart Olivia Chow over what he says is a city in quick decline. But TVO’s Steve Paikin has declared that Hamilton, Ontario’s fifth biggest city, may have the province’s best race.

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Federal Judge Pushes Ryan Wedding Trial to December, Finds Prosecution ‘So Unusual and So Complex’ It Defies Normal Trial Timelines

Federal Judge Pushes Ryan Wedding Trial to December, Finds Prosecution ‘So Unusual and So Complex’ It Defies Normal Trial Timelines

LOS ANGELES — A judge in Los Angeles has named two co-defendants alongside Ryan Wedding — the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder charged with leading a Sinaloa Cartel-linked cocaine trafficking and federal witness murder conspiracy — while pushing the proposed trial date to December 1, 2026, finding that the prosecution is so extraordinary in scale and complexity that it falls outside the bounds of normal federal trial preparation requirements.

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Toronto Police division at core of major Project South probe has history of data breaches

Toronto Police division at core of major Project South probe has history of data breaches

The Toronto Police division whose officers’ alleged misuse of law-enforcement databases gave rise to a high-profile corruption probe has a documented history of data breaches.

In the eight years before the recent Project South takedown led to the arrests of several officers from 12 Division, unlawful database breaches prompted sanctions against four other constables from that division, according to a review of disciplinary records by The Globe and Mail.

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Multiple 3D printed handguns seized in firearm manufacturing, trafficking probe: Toronto police

Multiple 3D printed handguns seized in firearm manufacturing, trafficking probe: Toronto police

A 28-year-old Toronto man accused of making 3D printed handguns is facing a number of charges in connection with a firearm manufacturing and trafficking probe, police say.

Toronto police said multiple 3D printed guns and components were seized following the suspect’s arrest in December 2025.

“These are fully functioning firearms that were not purchased through regulated channels and in many cases, are not traceable in the same way as traditional firearms,” Chief Superintendent Joe Matthews told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday morning.


On December 9, 2025, Brian Narciso, 28, was arrested and charged with multiple offences related to firearm manufacturing, trafficking, and unauthorized firearm possession. The charges include a new offence under Canadian law: possession of computer data for the purpose of manufacturing or trafficking firearms, contrary to section 102.1 of the Criminal Code.

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