Fraud

Chinese police have reportedly detained dozens of small investors who were scammed out of their money by a state-linked investment group, accusing the victims of acting on behalf of “overseas anti-China forces” by airing their grievances in public.

Welfare fraud under $25,000 in California could be decriminalized due to Senate Bill 560, which was introduced by State Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D) in February.

Former New York Rep. George Santos has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to felony fraud charges in August 2024 and getting expelled from Congress in December 2023.

Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison is trying to explain his support for a Muslim children’s organization that is being prosecuted for fraud.

The Donald Trump administration on Tuesday referred New York Attorney General Letitia James, who had targeted Trump, for potential prosecution over alleged mortgage fraud.

An Irish national illegally present in the United States is now in federal custody after being initially arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The 28-year-old man has been ordered detained on criminal wire fraud and conspiracy charges related to an alleged scheme to defraud homeowners in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience, has been charged with defrauding investors. Far from AI assisting shoppers, human contractors in the Philippines were manually completing customers’ transactions.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said a Government Accountability Institute (GAO) report found lax oversight by the SBA over hundreds of billions of dollars in coronavirus aid loans and grants doled out during the Biden-administration was either “jaw-dropping incompetence or willful negligence.” Ernst cannot decide which is worse.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has received 270,000 applications from purported homeowners in the recent L.A. fires — though only abut 13,000 homes were destroyed.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has marked approximately 3.2 million Social Security number-holders for people aged 120 and older as “deceased” as part of ongoing efforts to root out fraud.

The Biden administration covered up “hundreds” of suspicious activity reports (SAR) for the Democrat Party’s fundraising machine, ActBlue, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) alleged this week as his Oversight Committee investigates the platform for potential fraud.

The House Subcommittee on Government Operations holds a hearing on preventing fraud in the payment systems of the federal government on Tuesday, March 11.

A Democrat donor who has heaped criticism on Elon Musk pleaded guilty to wire fraud as an alleged co-conspirator in an alleged woke investment fraud scheme, according to federal prosecutors in California.

President Donald Trump provided some of the most “appalling” examples of waste discovered by his newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), showcasing this harsh reality to the millions of Americans watching the joint session of Congress Tuesday evening.

A federal appeals court has affirmed the fraud convictions of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her former business partner and ex-boyfriend Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Holmes is serving an 11-year prison sentence with an expected release date of 2032.

Companies that prefer migrants and visa workers over Americans may face federal investigations and lawsuits, the new EEOC chair said.

Elon Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) now has on-site access to payments and contracting information from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees the healthcare coverage to more than one third of Americans, as it seeks to root out embedded deep state fraud and waste.

Scammers have been applying for aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the recent California wildfires, filling in addresses within the burn zone before the actual residents can claim their relief.

The View co-host Sunny Hostin’s husband has been named alongside 200 co-defendants in an expansive, $459 million New York insurance fraud lawsuit.

Attorney General Merrick Garland finds himself in the congressional crosshairs as Republicans on Capitol Hill intensify investigations into his Department of Justice’s alleged coverup of a solar energy scandal centered around a plant based in Nevada called Crescent Dunes.

Carlos Watson, founder of Ozy Media, has been sentenced to nearly ten years in prison for lying about the financial stability of his company to defraud investors.

A widespread social media scam involving fraudsters impersonating actor Johnny Depp has defrauded elderly Americans of millions of dollars, according to FTC complaints obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Brian Thompson, the slain CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down on Wednesday while top executives at his company have reportedly been under investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for alleged insider trading and a monopoly.

A Wisconsin judge has approved for the first time a subpoena to the leftist fundraising platform, ActBlue, after a Republican strategist claimed his email identity was stolen to make liberal donations.

Jeffrey Arthur Moynihan Jr., a resident of Bradenton, Florida, has been arrested and charged with grand theft for allegedly posing as billionaire Trump supporter Elon Musk in a scam that defrauded a 74-year-old Texas woman out of at least $250,000.

A former Arizona ABC newscaster and her husband have been accused of committing Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud during the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors say.

Sam Trabucco, the former Alameda Research co-CEO, will forfeit a 53-foot yacht and forgo $70 million worth of claims in a proposed settlement with the FTX bankruptcy estate.

On Friday, CNN said that 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) “has been a hands-off leader when it comes to seeking accountability for episodes of fraud and mismanagement on his watch”, his office acknowledges state agencies

The Democratic National Committee’s donor platform, ActBlue, is facing an investigation by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee regarding “potential fraud” linked to donations made to candidates’ campaigns.

A New York-based lawyer has pled guilty to charges of partaking in an immigration fraud scheme by trying to illegally quicken asylum statuses.

Federal prosecutors have charged a North Carolina musician with wire fraud and money laundering for allegedly using bot accounts and hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs to fraudulently earn over $10 million in royalties from streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music.

The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce has issued a subpoena for Democrat vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN).

A Maryland pastor was recently slapped with an 18-month prison sentence for fraudulently obtaining more than $3.5 million in COVID-19 relief funds.