PORTLAND (WGME) — A man from Sanford is out on bail after being accused of running a fraudulent commercial driving license school out of York County.
According to court documents, several students paid the man thousands of dollars for commercial driving classes, but police say it was a scam, and they never got their licenses.
Paul Rumery of Sanford is facing eight charges, accused of deceiving people who wanted to get their commercial driver’s license.
According to the 15-page affidavit, investigators with the BMV found Rumery was operating an unlicensed driver’s education school for truck drivers.
He was arrested this week.
According to court documents, Rumery claimed he worked for Hannaford, training drivers on how to drive commercial trucks.
A man from Sanford is out on bail after being accused of running a fraudulent commercial driving license school out of York County. (WGME)
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THE TD BANK INSIDER “BRIBE-FOR-DATA” SCHEME (USA)
Date: February 17, 2026 Perpetrator: Edward Low (Former Bank Employee)
Case Description: In a high-profile case of “Insider Threat,” Edward Low, a former employee of TD Bank in New York, pleaded guilty in a New Jersey federal court to accepting bribes in exchange for confidential customer data. Between 2021 and 2022, Low leveraged his internal access to harvest the personal details of high-balance account holders. He then sold this “hot data” to external fraud syndicates for as little as $26,700 in personal kickbacks.
The external fraudsters used the information Low provided to conduct “Account Takeovers” (ATO), creating fraudulent checks and falsifying bank records to drain over $500,000 from unsuspecting customers. Low even went as far as helping co-conspirators open shell company accounts at a second financial institution where he was later employed. He now faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison. This case has sent shockwaves through the global banking sector, highlighting that even the most robust external firewalls cannot protect against a “rogue insider” with administrative credentials.
Link to Original: US Dept of Justice – TD Bank Insider Plea