Nothing less than outright theft.
I'm not even sure it's LH.
I asked a rabbi if there are any issurim of l"h involved to talk about these stories, Lakewood stories.... since they are readly available to the public all over the Internet. He answered that since these crimes were not for sure committed and even if they were, they probably had not been to the level that's being reported, you can be getting into issurim of moitzi Shem ra