Tag: Fraud

“I have taken advantage of a loophole,” said the man who is being called “David” by the CBC in order to comply with his request to protect his identity.

A Boston federal judge charged 25 people — including 21 residing in the U.S. illegally — with alleged identity and benefit fraud on Thursday as part of a federal crackdown on document and benefit fraud.

Uber drivers are making false vomit complaints against their customers in order to charge them up to $150 on top of their bill.

Pro-amnesty activists are claiming sadism, racism, and brutality as President Donald Trump’s immigration agency implements an anti-fraud plan drafted under former President Barack Obama.

Three immigration and civil judges are among nine people due to appear in court charged with an alleged £12.6 million bogus legal aid scam.

A former social worker from North Carolina who took part in a $1 million Medicaid fraud scheme was sentenced Tuesday to 13 months in federal prison and ordered to repay $1 million to the federal government.

Social Security employee Anne Aroste has been arrested and charged with fraud, after funneling illegitimate benefits into her own bank account.

Police have charged three men with fraud and a fourth for possession of criminal property following dawn raids conducted in connection with the Grenfell Tower fire investigation.

A state audit of Missouri’s food stamp program found thousands of prison inmates and dead people redeemed food stamp benefits for food purchases.

A pair of illegal immigrants lived in a luxury hotel for eight months at the taxpayers’ expense, after fraudulently claiming to be victims of the Grenfell fire, a court heard.

Former Democratic congressman Mel Reynolds says that he has “given up on America” and will move to Africa after he serves his latest prison sentence.

Hanna Dickenson, a 24-year-old Australian woman, collected money from both family and friends by pretending to be suffering from cancer in order to fund years of benders and vacations.

BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court has rejected an appeal by a Syrian man convicted of attempted fraud for seeking 180,000 euros ($222,000) from someone he thought belonged to the Islamic State group while claiming he planned car-bomb attacks.

The European Union (EU) has demanded the UK pay them a £2.4 billion fine shortly before Brexit talks commence, claiming the government has not done enough to fight the Chinese gangs smuggling goods into Britain.

More than 35,000 U.S. retailers trafficked more than $1 billion in food stamp benefits a year over a period of three years, a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) found.

With Washington, DC’s school system now under federal investigation for alleged fraud in granting high school diplomas, some education experts are concluding the longstanding claim the district is a national model for “education reforms” is nothing more than “a lie.”

A New York doctor will be serving 13 years behind bars after being convicted of orchestrating a $7 million Medicare scheme.

Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown reported to federal prison in a luxury Mercedes minivan Monday to begin a five-year sentence for fraud and corruption charges.

According to Norton Cyber Security’s 2017 insights report, cybercrime victims collectively lost $172 billion last year.

Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach says the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity will be “handed off” to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to “more effectively” investigate voter fraud without being “stonewalled” by Democrats.

For all the fact-checking, the truth that matters to voters is whether their leaders keep faith with the electorate. By that measure, Trump is setting the example — so far.

A Democratic congressional candidate in Virginia has been indicted on charges of fraud, embezzlement, and theft for allegedly stealing government funds from a school nutrition program in 2012.

A judge sentenced former Rep. Corrine Brown to five years in federal prison Monday after being convicted of mail, wire, and tax fraud in May.

The Department of Justice announced that Indiana immigration lawyer Joel Paul pleaded guilty to extensive fraud in his U-visa practice Thursday.

Louisiana GOP Sen. John Kennedy is stepping forward with a bill that would end the lottery-visa program, which has allowed luck and foreigners to send 5 million unscreened immigrants into the United States since 1990.

The federal government is charging four Somalis with fraudulently obtaining green cards via the visa lottery and chain migration, and will deport them if they are found guilty.

LONDON (AP) — A convicted conman has admitted charges of fraud for falsely claiming that his family died in London’s Grenfell Tower fire.

President Donald Trump is restarting the nation’s expensive policy of transplanting foreign refugees into towns and cities around the nation, following a 120-day pause for the development of new security provisions.

Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. reportedly were nearly charged with fraud in 2012 over claims that they misled prospective buyers.

If Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam enters the Republican U.S. Senate primary, as he suggested on Thursday he is considering, things are about to get much tougher for the politician who has carefully avoided revealing the details of his vast inherited financial wealth throughout his public career.

An Australian author who falsely claimed to have beaten cancer through healthy eating has been fined over 400,000 Australian dollars ($300,000) for “misleading” customers about charitable donations, according to a report.

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that, along with Texas state and local law enforcement officials, it is establishing a “working group” to combat criminals who saw the devastating Hurricane Harvey as an opportunity.

A pair of illegal alien brothers face federal charges for allegedly operating a fake ID business for non-U.S. citizens.

All legal fee donations to cybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins will be refunded following the discovery that the majority were made fraudulently with stolen credit cards.

A former state lottery worker faces up to 25 years in prison for rigging the state lottery in his favor.