On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that he doesn’t “trust the government at this point” after the massive amount of coronavirus relief fraud and he doesn’t trust the Inflation Reduction Act due to what a
The State of California is attempting to blame former President Donald Trump for the fact that fraudsters stole $30 billion in coronavirus relief payments from the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD).
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) predicted that the amount of coronavirus relief that was stolen “will exceed 20%” of the aid and total over a trillion dollars.
Prosecutors say disgraced Silicon Valley star and Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is living in a $13,000-per-month estate and showing “no remorse” after being sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for deceiving investors in the failed startup that promised to revolutionize blood testing.
Tesla CEO and new Twitter owner Elon Musk attempted to downplay the impact of his Twitter account during a fraud trial related to his infamous 2018 “funding secured” tweet. Musk told the jury, “Just because I tweet about something doesn’t mean people believe it or will act accordingly.”
The State of California is warning residents who may have received a tax “refund” in the form of a bank card to withdraw their funds as soon as possible because thieves are targeting the refunds in fraud scams.
Former President Donald Trump’s company was hit with a $1.6 million fine on Friday for a scheme in which his top executives were found to have dodged personal income taxes on job emoluments.
PRAGUE (AP) – Populist billionaire Andrej Babis leads a field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial but prestigious post of the Czech president.
A woman was sentenced Friday to three years in New Jersey State Prison for her part in a well-known $400,000 GoFundMe scam that defrauded more than 14,000 people.
An illegal alien defrauded pedestrians of at least $80,000 over the last year by playing a violin outside stores and claiming to be collecting money for his sick child, the Palm Beach County, Florida Sheriff’s Office alleges.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” House Oversight Committee member Rep. James Comer (R-KY) stated that looking at the money spent under the coronavirus relief packages and looking into the large amounts of fraud in unemployment insurance and
A Florida pastor and his son are accused of fraudulently obtaining over $8 million in federal coronavirus relief funds for their family-run Christian ministry.
A New Jersey man who defrauded several women by making false romantic promises through telephone dating services, and escaped federal custody in July 2020, was sentenced to five and a half years in prison Wednesday.
Disgraced Theranos COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison on Wednesday for fraud following the blood-testing startup’s implosion. Balwani and his girlfriend Elizabeth Holmes were found guilty of defrauding investors with claims if miracle blood test technology that never worked.
A congressional report has found that obscure financial technology companies “with little to no oversight from lenders” have fueled rampant Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) fraud. The report estimates a total fraud of about $64 billion, with fintechs contributing significantly to that total.
A former Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) employee has been accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the agency’s retirement fund.
Migrants in the Swedish region of Skåne have allegedly been offered to fake jobs contracts to legally obtain a residency permit.
An investigation from a British newspaper has found the government has wasted at least £14 billion on frivolous expenditures.
A BLM activist in Bristol has been charged with fraud in connection to allegedly missing money from a fundraising page for statue protesters.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Two men accused of stuffing five walleye with lead weights and fish fillets during a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie pleaded not guilty to cheating and other charges on Wednesday.
A woman was arrested after allegedly failing to scan all her items at a Walmart self-checkout in northern Michigan.
Twelve people, allegedly members of two illegal immigration networks, have been arrested by French police.
Police in Uttar Pradesh, India, recently announced the arrests of 15 people related to a scam operation, allegedly run by a Chinese citizen, that used data pilfered from old memory cards and circuit boards to scam Indians into fake business “investments” and loans, India’s Times Now News reported on Tuesday.
Three U.S. Postal Service Workers and another individual were recently arrested for allegedly participating in a $1.3 million fraud and identity theft scheme.
Forty-seven individuals, primarily in Minneapolis, Minnesota’s large Somali community, have been charged for their roles in allegedly stealing $250 million in COVID-19 federal funds meant for a child nutrition program.
Fraudsters may have gotten away with tens of billions of dollars from the U.S. Department of Labor by filing claims in multiple states and using the social security numbers of dead people as aid was distributed during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal watchdog claimed Thursday.
Forty-seven people were charged in Minnesota on Tuesday with conspiracy and other counts in what Federal authorities allege is the largest fraud scheme yet to take advantage of $1.9 trillion in taxpayer funds released by the Biden administration during the coronavirus pandemic.
A South Korean court on Wednesday issued a warrant for the arrest of Do Kwon, founder of the blockchain platform Terraform Labs and creator of two cryptocurrencies called Luna and TerraUSD.
A North Carolina woman was recently arrested for allegedly committing food stamp fraud after receiving benefits of over $15,500.
BERLIN (AP) – German leader Olaf Scholz has denied intervening on behalf of a private bank embroiled in a tax evasion scam when he was mayor of the northern city of Hamburg, allegations that have dogged him since before he took office as chancellor last year.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that America was “robbed blind” by fraud with coronavirus relief programs and said that this makes him “a little less excited about the money they’re planning to spend.” He
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) said that if Congress is interested in trying to increase the amount of money in the federal treasury, it should do more work on getting
A Swiss court has ruled in favour of a Moroccan woman having her Swiss passport stripped after she separated from her local husband just months after getting it and remarried a Lebanese man shortly after their divorce.
Neuroscientist Matthew Schrag of Vanderbilt University set the world of Alzheimer’s research on fire by launching an investigation that discredited one of the key studies of the disease – a 2006 study upon which a great deal of subsequent research was based. On Thursday, Science magazine blew the scandal into orbit by concluding that some of the visual evidence included in the 2006 study was deliberately doctored, an overture to what could be one of the worst cases of scientific fraud in history.
Argentine socialist Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner once again faced charges of extreme corruption this week, the Argentine news site Infobae reported on Monday, citing accusations by prosecutor Diego Luciani that Fernández engaged in an “extraordinary” level of corruption during her presidency from 2007 to 2015.
A woman was recently sentenced to one year and one day in prison for her role in a GoFundMe scam in which she and an accomplice raised $400,000 for a homeless veteran using a story that turned out to be fake.
Michael Avenatti was sentenced to four years in prison by a federal judge on Thursday after being found guilty of defrauding pornographic actress Stormy Daniels of nearly $300,000 over her book about an alleged affair with former President Donald Trump.
A pair of illegal aliens, who were released into the United States thanks to President Joe Biden’s expansive Catch and Release network, have since been charged with operating a debit card scheme in Vernon Parish, Louisiana.
The president of the Spanish pharmaceutical company PharmaMar is one of the over 2,200 people listed by Spanish police as having purchased fake coronavirus vaccination documents.
Power Rangers star Austin St. John — real name Jason Geiger — has been charged with fraud related to the Chinese coronavirus and faces up to 20 years in prison.
