FBI AGENT Reveals Untold Story Behind Dr. Love | Tom Simon

Malachi Love Robinson, starting at age 17, impersonated a doctor, opened a clinic, and even interacted with patients at a real hospital. He defrauded an elderly woman of $20,000-$30,000, then, while out on bond, attempted identity theft in Virginia. After serving time, he was released and immediately engaged in an embezzlement scheme, stealing $10,000 from a shipping broker. His repeated offenses and relatively short sentences (3.5 years, 1 year, 28 months) illustrate a pattern of persistent, escalating fraud.

At age 17, he opened up a clinic... presented himself as Dr. Love. [00:00:19] He made house calls to an 86 year old woman and claimed he could treat her and he sold her off the rack natural remedies and then he used his access to steal from her. [00:01:46] The elderly victim lost between 20,000 and $30,000. [00:02:02] He sets his sights on Virginia... attempts to buy a Jaguar using a different elderly woman's credit information. [00:02:21] He gets three and a half years in prison... an additional one year in prison. [00:02:56] He launches an embezzlement scheme there... He gets $10,000 from that company. [00:03:26] The correct answer is 28 months in prison. [00:05:49]

Joseph Sullivan, a Rotary Club member in Honolulu, exploited the trust within his community to perpetrate an affinity fraud. He offered fellow Rotarians and acquaintances 'investments' in offshore bank certificates of deposit promising 15-20% annual returns. These CDs were entirely fabricated, printed on his home computer, and the 'banks' did not exist. He collected $1.8 million from victims, spending it on living expenses. His attempt to obtain a fake passport after confessing led to his arrest for passport fraud.

He was part of the Rotary Club... becomes an opportunity for an affinity fraud. [00:13:12] He began offering his fellow Rotarians... investments in offshore bank certificates of deposit that paid 15% to 20% per year. [00:13:58] Joe was producing these CDs at home on his computer. [00:14:37] He was able to take in $1.8 million from victims. [00:15:48] Joe had gone to the passport office to get a passport under a fake name. [00:19:42] He ends up pleading guilty to both the investment fraud... and the passport fraud. [00:20:37] The correct answer is 55 months. [00:22:33]

Charles Noveid, operating from Nigeria, orchestrated a romance scam by creating fake profiles to charm multiple lonely women. He manipulated these women into wiring money to an unwitting money mule, Betty, who believed she was helping her online boyfriend with his business. Betty then converted $2.5 million into Bitcoin and sent it to Charles. Despite the difficulty in prosecuting international scammers, Charles was arrested when he unexpectedly flew into Dallas, Texas, and was sentenced to 24 months for fraud and money laundering.

Charles created romance scam profiles to charm not only Betty but five other lady victims. [00:25:27] The women believing that they were doing a favor for their fictitious online boyfriend. They would wire money to Betty... Betty believing that she was helping her boyfriend with his business would forward it to Charles in Bitcoin. [00:25:46] Charles was able to extract $2.5 million from these ladies. [00:26:09] He flies into Dallas, Texas... they see that he's wanted by the FBI. [00:28:31] He ends up pleading guilty to fraud and moneyaundering charges. [00:28:54] The correct answer is 24 months. [00:30:17]

Gail Navage, a 62-year-old church administrator, exploited her position of trust at the First Baptist Church of Pittston, Pennsylvania, to embezzle $184,000 over 20 months. Her scheme involved using church credit cards for personal purchases (like Amazon and movies) and cutting unauthorized payroll bonus checks to herself, which she concealed in the accounting software. The majority of the stolen funds were used for sports gambling on platforms like FanDuel and DraftKings. Despite confessing and agreeing to Gamblers Anonymous, she refused to use her Roth IRA or cryptocurrency holdings to repay the church, arguing they were not direct proceeds of the crime.

Gail Navage... had access to the accounting records of the church as well as the church's bank account and credit cards. [00:49:32] She uses the church's credit card for her own expenses, and she begins cutting unauthorized payroll bonus checks to herself. [00:50:36] Over a 20-month period, she used the church's credit card for $34,000 in personal purchases... The check fraud side... brought her total embezzlement up to $184,000. [00:50:56] The majority of the money... was going to sports gambling on FanDuel and DraftKings. [00:51:34] She declines to voluntarily pay back any of the money from the holdings in her Roth IRA or her cryptocurrency wallet. [00:52:21] The correct answer is 15 months. [00:55:13]

The host, a former inmate, confirms the perception that prison can act as a 'crime grad school,' where inmates share and refine criminal schemes. He recounts how he and another inmate, Zach, combined their expertise—the host excelling at getting money into bank accounts and Zach at extracting it—to devise more sophisticated fraud plans. This highlights how incarceration, rather than deterring crime, can sometimes foster more advanced criminal networks and strategies.

There's a perception in the public that prison... becomes a bit of a kind of crime grad school. [01:12:13] So true. [01:13:04] Zach and I sitting around talking about different scams... my biggest problem was like I can get a million dollars in a bank account. That's not hard... It was getting the money out and Zach's issue was like how do you get a like how do I I have to find somebody with a million dollars in a bank account to get the money out. [01:13:07] I used to say I went in with a GED and I came out with a master's degree. [01:13:56]

Shaminder Sandoo sought a hitman to settle scores, and his buddy introduced him to an FBI informant posing as a hitman. For a 'test run,' Shaminder paid $6,000 to have an enemy 'roughed up,' which the FBI informant faked with makeup and special effects. Convinced, Shaminder then hired the informant for $10,000 to kill, dismember, and transport a victim's body parts to Mexico. This elaborate plot was entirely recorded by the informant, leading to Shaminder's arrest and a 7.5-year sentence for Murder for Hire.

One of his buddies said, 'I know a guy who's a flesh and blood hitman.' [01:31:48] They paid the hitman $6,000 to rough up their this guy that they didn't like. [01:32:07] The hitman comes back with a photo on his phone of their mutual enemy all battered and bruised. [01:32:16] Shaminder agrees to pay the hitman to kill a different enemy, but they wanted this hitman to handle the murder, dismember the victim, and transport his body parts in different suitcases to Mexico for disposal. [01:33:21] The hitman was actually a paid FBI informant who's recording the conversations. [01:34:20] The correct answer. 7 and a half years. So 90 months. [01:36:58]

Kyle Christopher Benton, a 29-year-old former US Army soldier, became a prominent white supremacist online influencer ('liftwaffle'), posting violent extremist content and organizing hate rallies. He leveraged his military training to lead firearms workshops for aspiring neo-Nazis, encouraging ethnically motivated violence. The FBI intervened by targeting his illegal firearms: a fully automatic machine gun (modified with an 'autoseer') and two unregistered short-barrel rifles. Despite disavowing his views in a letter to the judge, he was sentenced to 24 months for unlawful possession of these weapons.

He reinvents himself as a white supremacist online influencer under the screen name liftwaffle. [01:40:01] Kyle begins organizing rallies, hate rallies in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. [01:40:42] He was teaching his students with a fully automatic machine gun... His training also involved two unregistered rifles with barrel lengths under 16 in. [01:41:55] The FBI charges... unlawful possession of a machine gun and possession of an unregistered firearm. [01:42:50] Kyle writes a letter to the judge disavowing his white supremacist views. [01:43:10] Correct answer is 24 months. [01:46:17]