Federal Prison
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons system, including camps, halfway houses, home confinement, and reentry.
George Santos says the credit card scandal was straw donations and Ferragamo ties, not a shopping spree
On Club Random, Santos tried to shrink one of the ugliest parts of his federal case into a very Washington story about campaign optics, committee gifts, and elephant-print neckwear.
Jennifer Michele Helm says she found out she was federally indicted by email after smoking a joint in Laguna Beach
The former luxury interior designer describes federal fraud charges arriving not as a dramatic knock at the door, but as an email interrupting a very California morning.
Chad Marks says the Supreme Court killed the 924(c) compassionate release argument that freed him, and people are going back to prison
The jailhouse lawyer story is gripping, but the nastier reveal is that Marks says he escaped through a legal door just before it closed on everyone behind him.
Stuart Anderson says admitting he saw red flags helped turn him into a federal fraud defendant
The former attorney says he thought he was helping investigators, then walked himself straight into the legal phrase every white-collar defendant learns too late.