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EKD v DLD was an ongoing 2010-12 New Zealand child custody case in which the Kiwi mother was alleging that her American ex-husband was sexually molesting their two infant daughters. The couple had met and started a relationship in 2007, married in 2009, and had had their two daughters in 2010 and 2011. The couple had separated in 2010. In June 2011, the American Father was arrested and charged with defrauding and stealing from his Employer -- his father-in-law. Reared as a Jehovah's Witness, AmDad had developed a habit of habitual lying, deception, and fraud. AmDad not only pled guilty to these crimes, but also confessed that he had done the same things to a previous employer. Outcomes unknown.

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WESTERN AUSTRALIA v. CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM KING, LEONARD BARRY MOAR, AND SHIRLEY JOCELYN MOAR was a 1961 Australian criminal prosecution of three ages 21-22 Jehovah's Witnesses. Limited details. The three JWs conspired to crack a safe, but in order to obtain the necessary cutting equipment, passed a check belonging to someone else -- possibly their employer victim??? Their inept conspiracy fell apart when police came calling about the check. All three were arrested, but quickly posted bond. The Moars committed suicide that same day. Christopher W. King eventually was convicted on four counts of "false pretense", and in typical Australian fashion was sentenced to a mere six months in jail.

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In June 2008, accountant Bob Kaczmarowski was arrested and charged with 6 counts of THEFT greater than $10,000.00, 2 counts of THEFT $5-10,000.00, and one count of False Swearing - Government Setting (April 2007). In a September 2009 plea deal, Robert L. Kaczmarowski, then age 52, pled "no contest" to only two counts of THEFT greater than $10,000.00, and was sentenced to 7 years in prison, with all but 12 months being probated. Robert Kaczmarowski was also ordered to participate in mental health counseling. Restitution totalling $125,000.00 was ordered. In 2014, the restitution schedule was modified from $1500/month to $500/month, and probation was extended for 15 years.

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NORTH CAROLINA v. LYNETTE RENEE FOWLER was a 2012-13 North Carolina criminal court case. In May 2012, Lynette R. Fowler, age 41, of Raleigh, North Carolina, an accountant, was arrested on charges of embezzling approximately $30,000.00 from her employer, from October 2010 until March 2012. Fowler was scheduled to appear in criminal court regarding those charges in May 2013.

Lynette Fowler died under suspicious circumstances on her 42nd BIRTHDAY in February 2013, in Raleigh, when her SUV was struck by an Amtrak passenger train. Eyewitnesses reported that Fowler's older SUV was sitting in a graveled parking lot in downtown Raleigh, just after 5:00 PM, when Fowler's SUV began to slowly roll toward adjacent railroad tracks and the oncoming Amtrak train.

Lynette Fowler is rumored to have been a Jehovah's Witness, and was cremated as is the current trend amongst JWs. Fowler's husband is believed to be a third-generation JW. Both his father and grandfather is/were JW Elders.

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CALIFORNIA v. WILLIAM PATERNOSTRO and LOS ANGELES COUNTY v. WILLIAM and MARGARET PATERNOSTRO were related 1987-90 California criminal and civil court cases which involved a Jehovah's Witness Embezzler named William Paternostro. William Paternostro, age 41, was a civilian accountant employed, since 1976, by the Los Angeles County Fire Department. In 1989, Paternostro pleaded "no contest" to criminal charges that he embezzled more than $530,000.00 from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Paternostro was actually believed to have stolen nearly $1,000,000.00, from 1980 to 1987, but the lesser amount was all that could be proved due to the time lapse.

William Paternostro was a Jehovah's Witness Elder, who also was the Treasurer for his local Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. Paternostro used two bank accounts belonging to his Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses to accomplish his crimes. From 1980 until 1987, Paternostro would place various miscellaneous receipts of funds into the Fire Dept's "petty cash" account. Paternostro would then wire money from the petty cash account into two bank accounts belonging to his Kingdom Hall. Pasternostro would then remove the money out of those two accounts.

For "confidentiality issue" considerations, it is interesting that one of Paternostro's fellow Jehovah's Witness Elders, named Jaap Valkman, provided testimony against Paternostro in that Paternostro had partially admitted much of the crime to the Body of Elders at his Jehovah's Witnesses congregation. Paternostro was sentenced to seven years in state prison on the criminal charges. To settle the civil lawsuit, Paternostro offered to repay $767,000.00. Repayment consisted of William and Margaret Paternostro transferring title to their $600,000.00+ home, expensive autos, and other unspecified assets, which had been enjoyed by the Paternostros and their three children.

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UNITED STATES v. OTIS WILSON was a 1986-89 Illinois federal criminal court decision. In April-May 1986, a 29 year-old "Jehovah's Witness", named Otis Wilson, conspired with five others to commit what is labeled, "The Largest Embezzlement In Chicago's History". (Wilson's then membership status is unclear, but one media report stated that "most of his family are Jehovah's Witnesses".)

The scam was hatched by a Detroit con-man, named Armand Moore, and his Chicago cousin, Herschel Bailey, who somehow "knew" Otis Wilson. Wilson had been employed at The First National Bank of Chicago for six years. In Spring 1986, Otis Wilson worked in the bank's department which was responsible for "wire transfers" of money. Bailey apparently convinced Wilson to join the conspiracy, and apparently because Wilson could not do everything that needed to be done in the scam, Wilson enlisted another department employee, named Gabriel Taylor. Bailey initially wanted to steal $232 million, and Wilson and Taylor's cut was to be $28 million of the $232 million.

Together, Otis Wilson and Gabriel Taylor provided the others with confidential information regarding the bank's wire transfers procedures, including the verbiage and codes that would be needed during the request and confirmation stages. The Duo also studied bank records to determine which bank customers had the highest amount of protection against overdrafts, and which had the highest volume of transactions in their account, so that missing funds would be difficult to reconcile.

On Friday, May 13, 1986, the outside conspirators telephone the bank and requested $69,125,000.00 be transferred from the accounts of Merrill Lynch, United Airlines, and Brown-Forman to bank accounts in Vienna, Austria. Taylor maneuvered the inside situation such that he was the bank employee to "confirm" the requests, and the funds were transferred as requested. However, the scam was discovered the following Monday by practically every party involved, because Wilson and Taylor were ignorant of nearly everything that such large wire transfers would trigger outside their own department's function.

The $69,125,000.00 was quickly recovered, and Wilson's and Taylor's roles in the scheme were unraveled just as quickly. Both Wilson and Taylor cooperated with the authorities. Taylor even helped the F.B.I. "sting" some of the outsiders. Otis Wilson provided a detailed confession to a federal grand jury, which incriminated himself and his co-conspirators. In 1989, Otis Wilson was sentenced to only 36 months in prison.

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UNITED STATES v. LOUIS P. ROLOFSON JR., FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF NORMAL v. LOUIS P. ROLOFSON JR., and FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF NORMAL v. LOUIS P. ROLOFSON JR. was a 1970 Illinois federal criminal prosecution, along with the two related state civil lawsuits attempting to recoup the embezzled $38,000.00 and $25,000.00. In November 1969, then 25 year-old Louis Rolofson was arrested by the F.B.I. and charged with embezzling $38,000.00 from his employer, the First National Bank of Normal, in Normal, Illinois, where L. P. Rolofson had been employed as a Bank Teller since January 1969. Rolofson pled "Guilty" in December 1969. Stupidly, Rolofson had cashed checks for $18,000.00 and $20,000.00 at his teller window which were written on his own bank account held at a Clinton, Illinois bank. The checks were cashed without the approval of a supervisor, and Rolofson did not have sufficient funds in his Clinton bank account to cover those checks. It was not until after Rolofson had been sentenced on the $38,000.00 theft that the First National Bank of Normal discovered a second theft of $25,000.00. Rolofson was thereafter also indicted for embezzling the $25,000.00. Sentence unknown.

In December 1995, Louis Paul Rolofson, Jr., 51, of Dewitt, Illinois, was convicted on aggravated criminal sexual assault charges, and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Louis P. Rolofson Jr. was among several JW adults who took a group of youngsters from the Clinton, Illinois Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses on a congregation field trip to Grant's Farm and Six Flags near St. Louis, Missouri. While Rolofson was rooming with the two sons of a divorced JW Mother, he sexually assaulted the younger ten-year-old boy. The ten-year-old boy was forced to give "unshakable testimony" at the trial, because numerous Jehovah's Witnesses from Louis Rolofson's Clinton Illinois Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses lined up to testify as "character witnesses" in his behalf. Notably, Louis Rolofson had attended the 1953 WatchTower International Convention held in Yankee Stadium, along with his JW Mother, Pat Rolofson, and his younger brother, Lanny Rolofson.

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In June 2015, Olivia Rutty, age 31, was convicted in Truro Crown Court of stealing more than $60,000.00 (U.S.) from her longtime employer, Pure Dental Health and Wellbeing in Truro, where Olivia Rutty had worked since she was 21 years-old, and presently served as Business Development Manager. Olivia Rutty pleaded guilty to 28 counts of theft, including furnishing false information to the company's payroll service to increase her own pay and using the company's credit cards to pay for her own purchases, committed between July 2012 and October 2013. Olivia Rutty was sentenced to two years in prison.

Husband, Nicholas J. Rutty, age 35, a construction contractor, also pleaded guilty to three counts of furnishing false information with a view to making a gain for himself or another, including submitting inflated bills to Pure Dental Health and Wellbeing and submitting bills for work never performed. Nicholas Rutty was sentenced to community service and given a suspended 6 months sentence.

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In May 2001, in Detroit, Michigan, FOX TV affiliate WJBK-2's local television program called PROBLEM SOLVERS aired a segment which featured aDetroit area Jehovah's Witness Elder meeting for "field service" at his Kingdom Hall on Saturday mornings, and thereafter preaching door-to-door on Saturday mornings. Why would routine JW activities be televised on an expose' television program? Because this Jehovah's Witness Elder was being paid by Detroit Taxpayers for the time that he was spending fulfilling his duties as an Elder at the Kingdom Hall and for the time that he was spending preaching the WatchTower's gospel from door-to-door. This JW Employee was videotaped showing up for work on Saturday morning, clocking in, and then leaving for the Kingdom Hall. Then, after completing his JW activities for the day, he returned to work to clock out. This Jehovah's Witness Elder was employed by the Detroit school system in its maintenance department, and in the year 2000, he had turned in overtime hours which paid him $43,000.00 over and above his regular wages of $52,000.00.

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NEW JERSEY v. AMELIA MILDRED CHAMBERS, WASHINGTON v. AMELIA M. EVERTS, WASHINGTON v. AMELIA EVARTS, PENNSYLVANIA v. AMELIA CARR, PENNSYLVANIA v. MILDRED EVERTS, NEW JERSEY v. AMELIA MILDRED CARR, NEW JERSEY v. AMELIA MILDRED BONIFACE, CALIFORNIA v. AMELIA MILDRED EVARTS, NEW JERSEY v. AMELIA M. CARR, NEW JERSEY v. MILDRED BONIFACE, PENNSYLVANIA v. AMELIA MOUNTFORD, NEW JERSEY v. AMELIA HALL, ETC., ETC.

Born in 1876, in Philadelphia to a Philly cop, Amelia Mildred Everts was a lifelong swindler - confidence woman. Fifteen year old Everts was first arrested in 1891, in Philly. Her first financial fraud arrest was in 1901, at the age of 26, also in Philly. Everts did jail and prison time in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California, Oregon, and Washington. Possibly also in Texas and Florida. No telling how many times she was married. Noone could even accurately estimate how much she stole over her career, nor how many male and female victims suffered at her hands. Everts/Evarts/Everetts used many more aliases than we list above. Everts stayed active as a swindler right up until the mid 1950s, when she was nearly 80 years old.

In 1936, Amelia Everts attended a WatchTower Convention in New Jersey. There, Everts met and targeted an elderly blind female Jehovah's Witness. Although Everts was terrible at avoiding prosecution, she was a genius when working her victims. We can't imagine that Everts would have posed as a JW amongst JWs unless she was trained and experienced as a JW. The details are unknown. After all, one must be a swindler and confidence person in order to be a good Jehovah's Witness.

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Given that Mildreada Ruiz was a Cuban immigrant, it probably is not even a sure bet that Mildreada's maiden name is "Ruiz". The only surname that is a certainty is "Andrews", and that is a known fact only because it can be established that the then 20 year-old Mildreada "Ruiz" married a fellow Jehovah's Witness named Mark Andrews, in Florida, in January 1980, and they thereafter had a son, named Michael Lee Andrews (1981), and a daughter, named Melanie Marie Andrews (1983).

Reportedly, Mark Andrews met Mildreada "Ruiz" at a "Jehovah's Witness Get-Together" in Hollywood, Florida, sometime in the late 1970s. The day after they returned from their honeymoon in January 1980, the FBI knocked on their front door looking for Mildreada on forgery charges, since their wedding, honeymoon, etc had been paid with checks that she had forged.

Although only 20 years old at the time, Mildreada Andrews' life of crime probably pre-dated those 1979-80 crimes, and it is known to have continued long after Mark Andrews and she divorced in the mid-1980s. Mildreada Andrews apparently was even somehow able to con the Florida family courts into granting her custody of Michael Andrews and Melanie Andrews, despite having served an unknown amount of prison time during the 1980s, and rearing the two children in "the family business". At some point, Mildreada Andrews also started using the surname "Rapa" with some regularity. It is not known whether Mildreada may have married a second time, or whether "Rapa" was simply a "clean alias".

Mildreada Andrews used "identity theft" as a way to facilitate the family's many other financial crimes. Thus, even after the 2005-06 federal prosecutions and convictions of all three family members, the FBI probably has no idea of the actual number of crimes which were committed during the nearly 30 years long multi-state crime spree, because even when arrested, and/or prosecuted, and/or jailed, it is known that at least some of those arrests, prosecutions, and convictions were under ever-changing aliases.

Mildreada Andrews apparently also used the Jehovah's Witnesses' proclivity for packing up their families and moving every few years in order to perform WatchTower recruiting in a less often worked area as a means of moving from state-to-state and lying-low as honest-beyond-reproach citizens. While JWs holler that Mildreada Andrews also victimized fellow JWs, interestingly, it was not until the 2001-03 crimes against several JWs in Washington State that law enforcement was able to uncover who was the real Mildreada Andrews. If Mildreada Andrews had a pattern of victimizing JWs prior to then, then show me the proof.

Apparently, only because she was either arrested, prosecuted, or convicted under her own name, Mildreada Andrews is known to have operated in Florida, New Jersey, possibly Texas (a "Mildreada Ruiz" was indicted in Jefferson County -- east Gulf coast of Texas -- in December 1992), Arizona, California, and Washington. It is anyone's guess as to where else this "Jehovah's Witness Gang" may have conducted criminal operations.

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UNITED STATES v. RAPA, UNITED STATES v.ANDREWS, and UNITED STATES v. ANDREWS. In 2006, "Mildreada Rapa", her daughter Melanie Andrews, and her son Michael Andrews (using the surname "Hernandez"), were convicted in Washington state federal court of Fraudulent Use of Social Security numbers, real estate fraud, false statements to HUD, and income tax fraud. "Mildreada Rapa" was sentenced to 8 years in prison and 3 years of supervised release, and was ordered to make restitution of $550,000.00. Melanie Andrews was sentenced to 15 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution of $60,000.00. Michael Andrews had already been sentenced in October 2005 to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $243,224.00 in restitution after pleading guilty to related identity theft charges.

Among the many criminal schemes conducted during their stay in Washington State from around 2001 to 2003, the family got overly greedy and even started victimizing several of their fellow Jehovah's Witnesses. Having prepared Federal Income Tax returns for some JWs, they inflated the W-2s of those JWs, and had the refunds paid to their own accounts, and then either kept the entire refund or kept the inflated amount and paid the correct refund amount to the JWs. The family also submitted several returns using false identities. Altogether, they stole only about $60,000.00 from the IRS, which corresponds to the restitution Melanie Andrews was ordered to pay.Some of the family had been arrested in Washington State back in 2003, but they even used forged bonds to gain their release. After fleeing Washington State, the family eventually settled in Arizona.

Michael Andrew's wife, "Isis Pellon Andrews", as well as other aliases, is named in media reports as being charged in connection with crimes in California and Arizona, but it is unknown whether she was ever charged in connection with the crimes in Washington State. Given that she was supposedly only 19 years-old in 2005, she possibly could have an "unavailable" juvenile record.

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ARIZONA v. RAPA and ARIZONA v. ANDREWS. In 2004, "Mildreada Rapa" and Melanie Andrews were indicted by an Arizona grand jury on 10 counts of fraud, theft, forgery, and identity theft in connection with their impersonation of and employment as Registered Nurses at two renal dialysis clinics. Using stolen identities to gain employment, the JW-Gang then used their employment access to patient records to steal even more identities. They plea bargained down to only one theft count for which the Mother received a sentence of 30 months in jail, and the Daughter received a sentence of 18 months in jail. They also were ordered to pay $32,500.00 in restitution.

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CALIFORNIA v. NIDIA JIMENEZ BERNAL (Mildreada Andrews), CALIFORNIA v. STEPHANIE MENDOZA (Melanie Andrews), CALIFORNIA v. MICHAEL LEE APODACA (Michael Andrews), and CALIFORNIA v. DEIDRE ANN MENDOZA (Isis Pellon Andrews). Possibly again using forged bonds to gain release in Arizona, the family members were arrested in California in February 2005, where they had set up shop in the Palm Springs area. The three female family members were arrested at medical clinics in Indio and Palm Springs, where they had taken jobs so that they allegedly could steal the identities of patients and co-workers. Michael Andrews allegedly was developing a con related to a pool business.

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UNITED STATES v. MILDREADA ANDREWS. Sometime in the early 1980s, Mildreada Andrews was charged with passport fraud.

FLORIDA v. MILDREADA ANDREWS. Around 1987, Mildreada Andrews was charged in south Florida with over 100 counts of various frauds and theft.

FLORIDA v. MILDREADA ANDREWS. In 1999, Mildreada Rapa (?) was convicted in Key West, Florida for filing $59,000.00 in fraudulent insurance claims. The Monroe County Prosecutor had been investigating Rapa since the 1987 spree. Sentence unknown

FLORIDA v. MILDREADA MARTINEZ. Under this Florida alias, Mildreada Andrews is currently wanted for parole violation.

FLORIDA v. MARIA ANNA MARTINEZ. Another outstanding Florida warrant under even another alias of Mildreada Andrews.

Even Canadian authorities have said they intend to seek "Mildreada Rapa's" extradition for a credit card fraud committed in Canada around 2000.