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ALA Library Technology Guides – [November 21, 2025] the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services(IMLS). 

The decision was issued in response to a lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General of 21 states. 

ALA President Sam Helmick said, “Today’s court decision is a powerful affirmation of what libraries mean to America. It restores everything that the executive order tried to take away: shared access to books in rural and remote areas, essential virtual learning tools, children’s reading programs and the countless library services available to anyone who walks into a public, school or academic library. 

This isn’t just a win for the 21 states who filed the case–it’s a win for every library user and every American in every state and territory. “Convincing a federal judge that shuttering a supposedly obscure agency would have an immediate and devastating impact on millions of Americans is no small feat. Libraries also strengthen local economies by supporting jobseekers, small businesses and community learning. 

Protecting these resources matters. ALA is proud to be in the company of dozens of library workers, associations, Friends of libraries, parents, educators, leaders at every level of government and every American who showed up for our libraries. “This victory belongs to all of us, and we build the future of our libraries together. 

As we celebrate this decision, ALA invites everyone to keep using and speaking up for libraries. Your voice makes a difference, and your community leaders need to hear it.”

IMLS is the only federal agency dedicated to the nation’s libraries and museums. On March 14, President Trump issued Executive Order 14238, which directed the elimination of the agency. Subsequently, the Trump administration began mass termination of the agency’s grants, dismissed all members of the IMLS board, halted crucial data collection and research, and intended to lay off nearly all of the agency’s staff. These actions left IMLS unable to fulfill its duties required by federal law and interrupted library services across the country. Today’s court ruling found that those actions were arbitrary and capricious and contrary to federal law that established IMLS and directed it to carry out programs, including funding for libraries and museums across the nation. The ruling nullifies the Administration’s actions to dismantle IMLS and permanently prohibits the Administration from taking such actions in the future. The ruling has immediate nationwide effect.

How a fake accountant stole millions of dollars to fund his extravagant lifestyle

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How a fake accountant stole millions of dollars to fund his extravagant lifestyle

By Kate McClymont

December 2, 2025 

Fake accountant George Dimitriou is a serial conman who stole millions of dollars from his clients by fabricating tax returns, backdating documents and forging their signatures on loan applications, the proceeds of which he diverted to support his extravagant lifestyle.

A former ANZ loans manager has confessed to forging the signature of at least one of Dimitriou’s clients on loan documents.

Also aiding Dimitriou in his criminal endeavours were several lawyers, including the late Hector Ekes, an alcoholic with a raging ice addiction who was also a former bankrupt who had been banned for five years for professional misconduct.

In Dimitriou’s office in Bella Vista, in Sydney’s Hills district, clients recall seeing his framed accountancy qualifications hanging on the wall.

But Dimitriou, 55, did not have an accountancy degree or even a certificate enabling him to offer financial advice. After leaving school in Year 10, he ran a garden artistry business.

From 2010, Dimitriou preyed upon vulnerable people experiencing financial problems by promoting himself as an experienced accountant who could reorganise their financial affairs. For his victims, the results were catastrophic. They lost their businesses, houses and cars. Some lost their marriages and many were left destitute.

 “I am broken, just broken,” said Lepa Sanna, from the Central Coast in NSW, who was left bankrupt after Dimitriou manufactured loan documents and forged her and her husband’s signatures on numerous documents, including on the sale of their house at Copacabana.

Later, Dimitriou tried to rely on a false affidavit presented to the court in which Sanna’s signature was again forged. The affidavit claimed she had not received the bankruptcy notice because she was institutionalised in a mental health facility. This was a lie.

“We hereby confirm that Lepa Sanna has never attended or received treatment from the Central Coast Local Health District Mental Health Services,” the NSW Health Department later confirmed.

The person who “witnessed” Sanna’s signature on the false affidavit about her “terrible illness” has provided a statutory declaration saying he did not witness her signature and that his own signature was forged.

“My efforts to bring attention to the frauds perpetrated by Dimitriou have been dismissed at every turn,” said Sanna.

Sue Arnott said her life had been divided into “before and after eviction day”, recounting the Sunday morning in October 2013 when removalists arrived at her Brisbane house.

A bailiff handed her court orders, and her house was then filled with at least a dozen men packing and removing everything she owned.

“I couldn’t speak because my voice would break to cry … eventually the bailiff said I’d better pack a suitcase and find somewhere to go,” she said.

Arnott, a divorced mother of two teenage children, was earning under $20,000 per year. She had offered her house as security for a loan her brother was seeking.

In 2011, Dimitriou forged her signature and prepared false tax returns claiming she earned $222,085 per year to obtain a million-dollar loan from ANZ.

Arnott was also used as a director on several companies controlled by Dimitriou which obtained other business loans. Those companies were also used to sting other Dimitriou clients.

In 2013, as the ANZ was pressuring her on her loan defaults, Arnott went into the bank’s Crows Nest branch to ask for a list of all her accounts.

“I was printed out a slip by the teller and I nearly died … I was like, ‘these are mine?’” Arnott later told a judge about the loans in various company names linked to her.

The fallout from her dealings with Dimitriou has been a “gut-wrenching nightmare that’s never ended”.

“He’s a con artist and he’s good at it,” said another victim, Helen Zaurrini, who was trying not to cry as she recounted the stress of her family’s financial ruin after Dimitriou defrauded them of $2.6 million.

Physiotherapist Kathy Leishman said it was “soul-destroying” to have her Newcastle home repossessed after having been introduced to Dimitriou by a local solicitor in 2014, when her husband Mark’s business was experiencing cash-flow difficulties.

“We used to be upstanding members of the community, and we were respected, and all of a sudden we’ve been kicked out of our house … There are no words really,” Kathy Leishman said.

Mark Leishman said when the cost of litigation and loss of the family home was added, the financial loss caused by Dimitriou was “well over $4 million”.

In 2016, a Supreme Court judge found that “Dimitriou or someone at his direction manipulated the signatures on … mortgage documents to make it appear that [Kathy Leishman] and Mark Leishman signed them when they had not.”

Although Dimitriou’s fraudulent behaviour had been raised in numerous court cases, it wasn’t until 2023 that he was finally jailed. But it wasn’t for stealing millions of dollars from his clients.

Instead, Dimitriou is serving his non-parole period of two years and three months in a minimum security jail in Emu Plains for defrauding the ANZ bank of almost $2 million relating to Sue Arnott’s loans.

Adding to the frustration and anger of the fraudster’s numerous victims, whose life savings Dimitriou plundered, is that they allege he was assisted in his web of deceit by ANZ Chatswood’s then-loans manager, David Wayne Winiata, 45.

At Dimitriou’s trial, Winiata confessed that as loans manager, he’d forged Arnott’s signature on a loan application dated February 10, 2012. Judge Pauline David found that Winiata had also forged Arnott’s signature on a loan document in January 2012.

Winiata said that Dimitriou was the source of many client referrals and that they spoke “three or four times a day about all different types of … customers that we’ve got things going with”.

The court also heard that Winiata’s then-wife, Terri Dawson, was also “implicated in aspects of the deception”. She was encouraged by her husband and Dimitriou to become a mortgage broker and, at one stage, listed her business address as Dimitriou’s office.

The February loan document, on which Winiata forged Arnott’s signature, also falsely refers to an interview occurring between his wife and Arnott.

Arnott was able to prove she was in Brisbane – not Sydney – at the time Dawson claimed to have interviewed her. 

Dawson later admitted in court that she had never met Arnott or spoken to her.

In her September 2023 judgment, the judge said, “I accept that both Mr Winiata and Ms Dawson were, to some extent, possibly involved in the alleged crime. However, I do not find that the forgeries and any associated lies told by Mr Winiata about them have the effect of extricating the accused [Dimitriou] in relation to the documents in question here.”

Dawson, 47, was convicted in 2019 of dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage by deception in relation to the matter. She was sentenced to a two-year community correction order.

In a 2014 appeal court matter relating to another Dimitriou loan, evidence was given about an email exchange between Dimitriou and Winiata on December 31, 2011, in which Dimitriou refers to “3%” of the “total lend amount” being split between Winiata and himself.

Later in the same judgment, it was noted by the judge, “I am satisfied … that there is at least an arguable case that the Bank, through Mr Waniata (sic) was aware of circumstances that would cause an honest and reasonable person to make further enquiries … and that the Bank, through Mr Waniata wilfully and recklessly failed to make such enquiries.”

Despite being stood down without pay during a 2012 investigation, it is understood Winiata was never sacked by ANZ. He left in 2015 and, for the next two years, worked as a relationship manager for the Commonwealth Bank. Winiata is currently a manager with Cricket NSW.

Comment was sought from Winiata.

In response to questions about what action the bank had taken over Winiata, an ANZ spokesperson said: “We take appropriate action, including dismissal and referring to police for criminal investigation.”

Pressed whether the bank did any of these things in relation to Winiata, the spokesperson replied: “We won’t comment on individual employees, I am afraid.”

The statement also said that at the time, “ANZ worked with a number of customers to resolve individual matters”.

The Herald has obtained other written complaints to the ANZ about Winiata and Dimitriou.

In August 2011, John and Joan Miller – not their real names – were shocked to find $1500 had been withdrawn from their account for a property valuation. “We have not authorised a valuation and we believe the $1500 has been withdrawn from our account fraudulently,” they complained to the bank.

John Miller told the Herald neighbours had suggested he talk to Dimitriou about a loan. Feeling uneasy about Dimitriou’s pitch, John Miller declined to go ahead with a loan application.

The Millers were therefore shocked about the unauthorised payment of $1500 for a property valuation to be used for a proposed loan. When they complained, they were told that “David [Winiata] was our business manager and he did the voucher for $1500”. John Miller insisted that his signature had been forged and that he had not made a loan application or provided authorisation to conduct a valuation on his home.

But the ANZ fobbed them off. The bank’s area manager sent an email on August 23, 2011, saying that John Miller had met Winiata and Dimitriou at the latter’s Bella Vista office on February 2. “Both David and George can testify that it was [Mr Miller] who attended the meeting and signed the relevant documents,” the email said.

The Millers continued to protest. Joan Miller said she drove the bank to “distraction” until they got their money back.

Mr M, a Melbourne businessman who asked not to be named, was introduced to Dimitriou in 2011 after one of his associates recommended Dimitriou, saying he was an “absolute genius” at getting loans.

Using two unencumbered residential properties in the Melbourne suburb of Bentleigh, which were valued at around $3 million, Dimitriou used Winiata at the ANZ bank in Chatswood to organise a series of loans totalling $2.35 million.

Mr M was notified that the loans had been approved.

However, after he did not hear from the bank about when the borrowed funds would arrive in the family company’s account, Mr M started to worry.

Dimitriou told him they were “busy with lots of clients” and that “as soon as he knew he would let me know”.

“Months go by – nothing,” Mr M told the Herald.

Mr M said in an affidavit tendered in court that at one stage he almost got into a fist fight at a family event over the missing money.

Finally, Mr M went to his local ANZ bank in Melbourne. He was informed that the loan funds had gone into the company’s account and then straight out again into accounts associated with Dimitriou.

Mr M chased Dimitriou for the return of his money. In 2015, he went to the police and was put onto a detective from the NSW Fraud Squad who, after hearing Mr M’s story, said: “You too?” and said there were plenty of others.

Mr M said he did three reports for the police and nothing ever happened. He said the ANZ branch claimed they couldn’t find the paperwork to see who had approved the transfer of his money to Dimitriou.

One of the properties was forfeited as Mr M and his family couldn’t keep up the interest payments on the loan that Dimitriou had obtained.

Dimitriou’s luck finally ran out in 2019 when he declared bankruptcy. There had been two previous attempts to bankrupt him and Revenue NSW had been chasing his companies over 276 unpaid traffic fines totalling $301,213.

Another of his companies was later wound up owing $1.6 million to the Australian Tax Office.

Sue Arnott and her company successfully sued Dimitriou for almost $2 million. Rather than pay, Dimitriou declared himself bankrupt, claiming he had only $3 to his name.

“The Bankrupt has disclosed that he is currently employed as a clerk and earns an annual income of $38,400 per annum,” his initial trustee reported to his creditors in late 2019.

His Lamborghini and Maserati had vanished, as had the millions of dollars he’d stolen from clients.

Bankruptcies are discharged after three years, but in Dimitriou’s case, his bankruptcy has been extended until 2027 for various reasons, including that he “intentionally provided false or misleading Information” to his trustee and that he failed to disclose his interest in certain assets.

When the Herald checked the residential address Dimitriou listed on his bankruptcy documents, it turned out to be a hotel garage in Zetland.

Days before declaring he was insolvent, the fraudster is alleged to have used Sydney solicitor Hector Ekes, who’d previously been suspended for misconduct for five years, to help him backdate documents to transfer his assets to an associate, who is also a former bankrupt.

Before joining forces with Dimitriou, Ekes had acted for several of Dimitrou’s clients who were suing Dimitriou. One by one, they filed professional negligence actions against him.

In 2020, Ekes handed in his practising certificate and the NSW Law Society took control of Ekes’ law firm due to numerous complaints by clients, including for misconduct, negligence and possibly fraud.

Ekes, 49 was last seen alive on September 17, last year. His body was discovered two days later in premises above a pawn shop on William Street, Darlinghurst. According to the Coroner’s office, the cause of death was “chronic alcohol abuse”.

At the time of Ekes’ death, he was serving a 20-month sentence by way of a community corrections order for repeated drink-driving offences and driving while suspended.

For years, Ekes’ former clients Mark and Kathy Leishman have been trying to make a claim against Ekes under LawCover’s fidelity fund. But they have been continually frustrated by the Law Society’s failure to release their files, which the society had taken from Ekes’s office. The Newcastle couple recently received an email from the Law Society saying, “You are able to inspect the boxes of files at Grace Storage at Campbelltown. There is a cost of facilitating such inspection of $597.60. If the boxes were transported to the Law Society in Phillip Street, there is a cost of $861.80.”

In a statement to the Herald, the Law Society said, “We are presently liaising with former clients that have contacted the Law Society regarding retrieval and inspection of documents” and that the Law Society “acts to protect clients of legal practices, by taking appropriate action under the Legal Profession Uniform Law and Rules”.

“We were the roadkill in all this,” said Mark Leishman. “The police have let us down, the Law Society has let us down.”

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Fraud Studies: Here are links to the studies I’ve written for the Better Business Bureau: puppy fraud, romance fraud; BEC fraud, sweepstakes/lottery fraud,  tech support fraud, romance fraud money mules, crooked movers, government imposters, online vehicle sale scams, rental fraud, gift cards,  free trial offer frauds,  job scams,  online shopping fraud,  fake check fraud and crypto scams
 
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• India: Mumbai police arrest 17 at scam call center that called Indians during the day for stock market fraud; ran tech support against US victims at night
• Customs seizes $2.5 million in counterfeit Rolex watches in Louisville
• India: Delhi police arrest 877 in 48 hour effort to tackle call center fraud doing a variety of scams
• UK: Three get prison for selling motor vehicles online, and collecting payment for them; vehicles didn’t exist; used money mules to handle funds
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• Massachusetts: Man from India arrested and charged; victim responded to email claiming he had made a purchase he had not; called number and talked to Defendant who pretended to law enforcement and victim was charged with crime; got victim to transfer money
• Miami: South African man convicted of passport fraud and aggravated identity theft

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Benefit Theft 

• Manhattan DA indicts two for PPP fraud; got $1.7 million
• Baltimore: Nigerian man gets 30 months prison over conspiracy to get unemployment benefits
• New Orleans: Woman gets 41 months prison; prepared 110 fraudulent PPP applications that got $1.1 million
• Texas: Co-founder of company that aided PPP applications pleads guilty to PPP fraud; got $63 million
• New Orleans: Man gets 84 months prison for PPP fraud
• Orlando: Jury finds man guilty of PPP fraud
• Scranton: Two siblings indicted for ID theft to get PPP loans, tax refunds, and other government benefits; got $400,000
• Los Angeles: New Hampshire man indicted for theft of California unemployment benefits; got $700,000

Scam Compounds

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• Myanmar says it arrested 1600 at scam compounds in five day effort

Bitcoin and Crypto Fraud

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Ransomware and data breaches

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ATM Skimming                                                       

• Rhode Island: Four Romanians illegally in the US get stiff prison sentences for ATM skimming
• South Dakota: Two arrested for ATM skimming
• Massachusetts: Police arrest Romanian man for ATM skimming
• Cincinnati: Romanian man gets a year prison for ATM skimming

Romance Fraud and Sextortion 

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Epstein Files Search

Follow up to post – We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate – See also the new Epstein Files Search– powered by Justice for All Victims: Search Tags for Files, Images, People, Organizations, Countries.

See also via Journalist Studio – Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found. You can search and review the emails here. Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.

Welcome to the Epstein Document Network Explorer

This is a network analysis tool for exploring relationships between people, places, and events captured in the Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee. LLMs were used to extract these relationships from the raw document text, and as such, it is likely that there are some errors and omissions. 

Click on a relationship in the timeline after selecting or searching for a specific actor to see the document it was taken from with the principals highlighted. You can verify for yourself if the relationship is accurate according to the document.

How to use:

• Search for actors using the search bar
• Click on nodes in the graph to explore their relationships
• Use filters to focus on specific content categories
• Click document links in the timeline to view source documents

See also Wired [no paywall] – Pranksters Recreated a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail Inbox. Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds… 

Now, you can browseall those emails just like you would on your own Gmail account. Jmail is a website that looks very much like Gmail, except that there is a little hat hanging on the logo and that the profile picture in the top right corner is a grinning Epstein. (Click on it and it says “Hi Jeffrey!”) 

The inbox lets you click through thousands of emails, formatted to look exactly like a regular message would in your inbox. In the sidebar, you can sort by Inbox, Starred, and Sent. In Gmail, a lower sidebar section reads Labels and separates emails by category. In Jmail, it is a list of people who corresponded with Epstein…

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls

Daily Beast: “Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors. The new “About This Account” feature, which became available to X users on Friday, allows others to see where an account is based, when they joined the platform, how often they have changed their username, and how they downloaded the X app. 

Upon rollout, rival factions began to inspect just where their online adversaries were really based on the combative social platform—with dozens of major MAGA and right-wing influencer accounts revealed to be based overseas. “This is easily one of the greatest days on this platform,” wrote Democratic influencer Harry Sisson.

 “Seeing all of these MAGA accounts get exposed as foreign actors trying to destroy the United States is a complete vindication of Democrats, like myself and many on here, who have been warning about this”. Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria. 

In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People”—is actually based in Eastern Europe…”

See also The New York Times: X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Political Accounts. Online sleuths quickly found that some accounts posting about U.S. politics, including those in support of the MAGA movement, appeared not to be based in the United States.

See also X – @nikitabier – In a couple hours, we’ll be rolling out “About This Accountglobally, allowing you to see the country or region where an account is based. This will be accessible by tapping the signup date on profiles. This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square. 

We plan to provide many more ways for users to verify the authenticity of the content they see on X. And for those in countries where speech has penalties, we’ve included privacy toggles to only show your region. This was a huge undertaking…”

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