PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A Department of Defense employee from Montgomery County has been federally indicted for allegedly moonlighting as a money mule and laundering millions of dollars for overseas scammers.
The United States Attorney’s office in Philadelphia said 33-year-old Samuel Marcus of Oreland was employed as a logistics specialist with the Department of Defense and deposited and transferred millions of dollars of fraudulently obtained money into and through his personal and business accounts.
The indictment alleges that, from July 2023 to December 2025, Marcus was in direct and regular contact with a group of fraudsters, who operated under the aliases “Rachel Jude” and “Ned McMurray,” among others…