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.
Close to 115 illegal alien landscaping workers were arrested in Sandusky, Ohio on Tuesday by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
Andres Avelino Anduaga, an illegal alien from Mexico previously arrested on gun, drug, and forgery charges, pleaded guilty Thursday to theft of public property and being a removed alien found in United States.
U.S. customs officials stopped a previously deported criminal alien from attempting to fly from Puerto Rico to Pennsylvania.
Last week, the City of San Jose, California, filed a lawsuit against President Trump and his acting secretary of homeland security, in an attempt to stop the Trump Administration from rescinding President Obama’s illegal executive amnesty known as “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (or “DACA”). The case joins four similar lawsuits filed by the Board of Regents of the University of California, by the States of California, Minnesota, and Maine, by Santa Clara County, and by six DACA recipients living in California.
An illegal alien living in the sanctuary city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced for stealing Americans’ identities to collect more than $800,000 in tax refunds.
California may soon be the first state to offer a third gender option on all official state documents, if a State Senate bill is passed out of the Assembly and signed by the governor before the legislative deadline this year.
A federal judge in Louisiana slapped the wrist of a Honduran illegal alien who admitted to stealing the identity of an American citizen to obtain fraudulent identification documents.
A previously deported illegal alien was convicted and sentenced for raping a 15-year-old girl in Batavia, Ohio.
A total of 15 illegal immigrants were arrested after allegedly stealing Americans’ Social Security numbers and claiming to hold U.S. citizenship to gain employment.
The last of five defendants, all immigrants from the former Soviet Union, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a multi-million dollar credit card fraud and identity theft scheme in federal district court in Los Angeles Tuesday.
Conservative Republicans are “fuming” over Republican leadership dropping a provision from Obamacare 2.0 or Ryancare meant to stop illegal aliens from collecting healthcare tax credits, Reuters reports.
Google has vowed to fight a search warrant put forward by a Minnesota judge to collect information on anyone who Googled the name of an identity theft victim.
Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned Mexican citizens of “more severe application of migration controls” in the United States after anti-deportation protests over a woman convicted of felony identity theft was sent back to Mexico.
California State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Léon (D-Los Angeles) said last Tuesday that “half his family” was in the country illegally, using false documents, and eligible for deportation under President Trump’s new executive order against “sanctuary” jurisdictions.
HOUSTON, Texas – The credit card information of customers of a Houston based chicken franchisee that operates several Popeye’s Chicken stores may have been hacked, the parent company revealed on Thursday.
An illegal immigrant living in Florida will be doing time in federal prison after he was convicted of identity theft for 17 years.
A man revealed to be part of a conspiracy to murder a Texas judge and commit banking fraud is now reported to be on the loose in the Houston, Texas region.
An illegal immigrant was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, for allegedly stealing the identity of a deceased U.S. military veteran in order to get the vet’s Social Security payments and other benefits. The scam had been going on for over four years, authorities say.
An illegal alien with a long criminal history, including being a registered sex offender, has pleaded guilty to identity theft bringing an end to a long, painful era for the person whose identity he stole.
Five foreign nationals from Somalia were stopped on the Ohio Turnpike and charged with credit card fraud, possession of forgery tools, as well as drug and traffic violations, authorities say.
Illegal alien Ramon Perez-Rivera convinced a California court to switch an American’s name over to him, then collected taxpayer-funded benefits, a U.S. passport, and a California driver’s license, spent one night in jail for his crimes.
Texas police are holding Mexican immigrant Rodrigo Rodriguez, after multiple law enforcement agencies tracked him down and a search of his apartment revealed “141 Social Security cards, 110 birth certificates, 18 Texas ID cards, 11 Texas driver’s license, 3 tampered birth certificates, 1 marriage license and 1 Mexico ID card,” according to KRGV.com.
Former tennis star James Blake, once ranked fourth in the world, is calling for the NYPD officer who mistook him for a thief and body-slammed him to the ground to be fired.
On August 31, Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed an executive order to initiate the creation of a California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal-CSIC).
Every government hacking story seems to include subsequent revelations that the problem is at least twice as bad as the authorities originally admitted.
No one is ever held responsible for failure in government any more; even the most breathtaking incompetence and abuse lead to zero terminations or punishment. Congress is beginning to grumble about hearings and subpoenas, but even those tend to be ignored and subverted in the Obama era.
The first reports of the massive penetration of Office of Personnel Management files and security clearance applications — apparently by Chinese hackers most likely working for, or with, that country’s military intelligence apparatus — included grumbles from the affected employees that the administration didn’t handle the situation very well.
IRS investigators believe the identity thieves who stole the personal tax information of more than 100,000 taxpayers from an IRS website are part of a sophisticated criminal operation based in Russia, two officials told the Associated Press.
Thieves used an online service provided by the IRS to gain access to information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, the agency said Tuesday.
Millions of TurboTax users will be troubled by a lawsuit that was filed Monday in San Francisco against Intuit, Inc. claiming that when the firm knew TurboTax’s lax software security protections were allowing a huge spike in tax refund theft, TurboTax failed to correct weaknesses or notify customers about ongoing risks.
“It’s unacceptable that the federal government spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year in improper payments to deceased people,” Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL) says.
Turns out it is not a good idea to steal the identity of a Border Patrol agent — especially if you are an illegal immigrant trying to use that identity to lie to Border Patrol officers.
An audit conducted by the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) inspector general finds that thousands of social security numbers of people who are long deceased were used by illegal immigrants to apply for work, and some numbers were also used to open bank accounts.
One of the notorious Russian hackers who has allegedly been raiding American corporate systems for credit card data and other valuable information has been apprehended in Amsterdam and extradited to the United States to face justice.
One of the largest data breaches in history was revealed Wednesday, as health insurance giant Anthem Inc. acknowledged its computer system was violated starting on December 10. The company noticed the breach on January 27 and verified it two days later.
Illegal immigrants are getting a free pass on identity theft and perjury felonies they committed in the past due to specific written instructions from the chief of the Investigative Division of California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) that essentially directs law enforcement to turn a blind eye when they discover that illegal immigrants have been using illegally obtained IDs.
