Fraud

A top U.S. banking regulator announced new efforts aimed at combating fraud in Minnesota during a discussion with community bank leaders Tuesday.

Former senior CIA official David J. Rush pleaded guilty Tuesday to defrauding the federal government of roughly $194 million through a scheme built on a fabricated intelligence program.

A Massachusetts restaurant operator was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison for a scheme that used more than 100 stolen identities to collect food assistance and pandemic unemployment benefits worth more than $1.1 million.

Healthcare companies have become “filthy rich” from Democrats’ Obamacare, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) said during a Breitbart News roundtable event.

An enterprising Nigerian named Adeniyi Adeyemi is facing charges in the capital of Abuja for creating and running a fake government agency for over a year, complete with about $1 million in funding from the Nigerian federal government.

Reps. Vince Fong (R-CA) and James Gallagher (R-CA) pointed to California’s unemployment system, high-speed rail project, wildfire and water policies, and regulatory costs as examples of problems they attributed to Democrat governance, including effects they said reach beyond the state.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Recovery Asset Team has denied more than $1 billion in attempted cyber theft since January 2025, which is a 16 percent increase over the same period under the previous administration, the bureau told Breitbart News on Thursday.

Minnesota fraud scandals may not be over, as a recent audit found that contracts handed to community groups in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death may not have had proper oversight at all.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “On the Line,” host Alicia Menendez responded to the Trump administration removing Obamacare enrollees they believe are fraudulent by saying that the idea of the ACA was to have young people who “wouldn’t really

Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday, in response to a question from Breitbart News, that fraud is “definitely making health care more expensive,” while Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services chief Dr. Mehmet Oz said, “Fraud will destroy Obamacare.”

Ericka Lomick, the Democrat nominee for Texas state House District 93, suspended her campaign Monday after a political action committee (PAC) resurfaced her federal felony conviction for mortgage fraud.

Republican lawmakers are warning Democrat fundraising machine ActBlue their investigation into the platform possibly receiving foreign money remains ongoing.

A Minnesota county has quietly canceled a fund meant to help businesses that have been impacted by the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the fund became inundated by fraudulent claims.

Tyler Hassen, the former Acting Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management and Budget at the U.S. Department of Interior, spoke about his experience rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal government and how government “waste is out of control.”

The Jen Kiggans campaign said Wednesday that Democrat challenger Elaine Luria’s use of the fundraising platform ActBlue funneled illegal contributions into Democrat campaign accounts, citing a new congressional report alleging the platform covered up fraudulent donations.

Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce was identified as a victim of a Ponzi scheme that took more than $35 million from investors. Siddharth Jawahar, a 38-year-old Indian national who has been living illegally in the United States since 2005,

Twelve immigrants from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, and Sudan have been charged in San Diego, California, with a more than $10 million fraud scheme that claimed to provide low-income families with home day care while funneling the taxpayer-funded money to themselves.

A California football mom has been arrested for reportedly embezzling $400,00 from a nonprofit created to support a high school football team.

A man accused defrauding the United States government of $600,000 in a food stamp benefit scheme was arrested in India on Friday.

Authorities in Tarrant County, Texas, announced the arrest of a man who led a $250 million theft ring that targeted American senior citizens.

Minnesotans are “embarrassed” by the fraud running rampant in their state, Minnesota Republican Senate candidate Michele Tafoya said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

A man accused of posing as a San Francisco 49ers player used dating apps, football gear and bogus financial records to take $1.3 million from women. In a press release on Tuesday, the Justice Department said Daejon Labrayae Love, 35,

A study found that donors who send money in response to Democratic fundraising spam are overwhelmingly elderly, and a surprisingly concentrated group of them accounts for the bulk of the money raised.

Accounting and consulting giant Deloitte has agreed to pay the U.S. $21.5 million to settle allegations it defrauded the federal government by continuing company DEI initiatives.

A former Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) official accused of playing a central role in a scheme that funneled more than $1.2 million to white supremacist groups did not appear at her arraignment on Tuesday.

The General Services Administration (GSA) has uncovered more than $13 billion in suspected fraud involving federal contractors.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s order blocking copper-nickel mining near the Boundary Waters will empower foreign adversaries like China and kill union jobs across the state’s northern Iron Range.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit charged Salman Ahmed Elmi, a state-honored “Outstanding Refugee” award recipient, with eight felony theft counts Monday over more than $1 million in fraudulent Medicaid billing.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Minnesota Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate nominee Peggy Flanagan (D) responded to questions on fraud in the state by saying that “Republicans are going to run against every Democrat on fraud because

Hospitals allegedly used false diagnostic codes to bill insurers for puberty blockers and other sex-change drugs given to minors, according to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report released Thursday.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused his predecessor Xavier Becerra of gutting a team responsible for policing fraud across trillions of dollars.

Former Southern Poverty Law Center chief financial officer Heidi Beirich was arrested in California and charged in the Justice Department’s case alleging that the organization secretly used donor money to pay informants inside white supremacist groups, CNN exclusively reported Wednesday.

Renowned sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya clinched the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in the state of Minnesota, according to a projection from the Associated Press.

A MO man has made himself the most hated duffer in amateur golf after using his “dying” grandma in a plot to palm off a fake hole-in-one.

Former Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve Keim said this week that he was a victim of an alleged investment scam run by Mohamed Coulibaly, the 24-year-old entrepreneur found dead in a New Jersey swimming pool last month.

President Donald Trump’s State Department has revoked more than 175,000 visas of foreign nationals accused of crimes like fraud, theft, and drunk driving, among others, since the start of last year.