Fraud

A dentist was found guilty Friday after he extracted a patient’s tooth while riding a hoverboard at his office in Anchorage, Alaska.

Police have arrested 94 people during a massive dawn raid on the Sicilian Mafia, in connection to a scam in which the mob defrauded the European Union out of millions of euros in farm subsidies.

A Chicago pastor is accused of taking nearly $1 million from a federally-funded food program for needy children and using some of the money to buy a Bentley.

An illegal alien has pleaded guilty to helping fraudulently secure visas for illegal aliens who falsely claimed to be crime victims.

A judge has ordered Google to turn over a year’s worth of Jussie Smollett’s emails, private messages, photographs and location data to a special prosecutor who is looking into why prosecutors abruptly dismissed criminal charges against the actor.

Afghanistan politician Razaq Ahmadzai, a close ally of President Ashraf Ghani, has been accused of actively collecting pension payments from the Swedish government for his mother who died in 2017. According to the accusations, the Afghan’s mother was not reported to the

Michigan’s Democrat Party chairwoman says to claim that the city of Detroit registers dead people to vote is a “direct attack on people of color.”

Ten former players have been charged with attempting to defraud the NFL’s healthcare program of almost $4 million, a report says.

Radical Islamic imam Abu Ramadan, a migrant from Libya, is accused of illegally obtaining as much as 590,000 Swiss francs (£455,335/$596,700) between 2003 and 2017.

Numerous U.S.-based companies that got Optional Practical Training work permits for Chinese graduates have quietly closed their doors following an ICE crackdown and media investigations, according to a report by NBC Bay Area.

A skewed news report triggered many progressive politicians, activists, and journalists to declare outrage towards the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) deportation of more than 200 Indian students — even though the ICE operation was launched under former President Barack Obama to block commonplace fraud against U.S. college graduates.

Yet another bogus Grenfell Tower victim has been convicted after scamming taxpayers out of £88,860.27 in financial aid and accommodation.

HELSINKI (AP) — Swedish media reports say Iraq’s defense minister, who holds dual Iraqi-Swedish citizenship, is suspected of illegally receiving benefits in Sweden.

American families must “accommodate the world’s ambition to be part of the future of America,” Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin said.

A group of illegal immigrants reported a daring restaurant robbery in King County, Washington, where “patrons were allegedly tied up, robbed of jewelry and two female members were said to be sexually assaulted.”

A former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee was sentenced Friday to 32 months in prison for tax evasion.

A female Muslim lay judge involved in an infamous court case that used Sharia law principles has been convicted of gross fraud over false employment reports.

There are likely “tens of thousands” of fraudulent refugees from Africa living in the United States, a CNN investigation reveals.

Potentially thousands of foreign nationals living in the United States have posed as domestic abuse victims since 2014 in order to obtain a green card to permanently remain in the country, a federal report states.

 The FTC claims that dating site Match.com used fake accounts to lure almost 500,000 people to become paying subscribers on the popular dating website. The subscribers joined the company’s paid premium service within 24 hours of receiving a message from accounts the FTC claims Match had already identified as “fraudulent.”

Federal agencies must work harder to prevent Indian and Chinese college graduates fraudulently getting work visas and jobs which are needed by their U.S. counterparts, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.

General Electric shares plummeted Thursday, dropping as much as 13 percent during the day following the release of a new report from financial whistleblower Harry Markopolos claiming the company is “a bigger fraud than Enron.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s younger brother, James, is being accused of defrauding a Tennessee rural healthcare company. 

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A refugee program that allowed foreign relatives of already-arrived foreign refugees to the United States was halted, altogether, more than a decade ago due to mass fraud among applicants.

A former New York City human resources worker was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday for allegedly stealing $300,000 to put a voodoo hex on her ex-boyfriend. 

A cyber-security firm says that criminals are able to steal millions by using “deepfaked” audio to fool financial controllers into transferring them money by making them believe they are speaking to the company’s CEO.

Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou on Monday asked Canada’s Justice Minister David Lametti to halt the process of extraditing her to the United States to face charges of bank fraud and sanctions evasion.

Police are investigating five allegations of electoral fraud during the Peterborough by-election, which The Brexit Party lost to Labour by a narrow margin of fewer than 700 votes.

A 48-year-old Miami con artist was sentenced on Friday to 18 years in prison for swindling millions of dollars from investors posing as a Saudi king.