Georgia

Nothing excites kids more than to hear “School is closed!” because that inevitably means vacation is underway. But in the case of the school created by Sandra Anderson, Yolanda Thomas, and Kristina Parker, “School is closed” really is just that. Closed. Because it was...

Yomarie Febres really thought she would get away with fraud when she filed fraudulent income tax returns as part of a multimillion-dollar tax refund scheme, by completing each return as “self-prepared” as opposed to putting her own name down as the tax form preparer....

Glenn Pair and Markuetric Stringfellow's after-school program, Do-It-4-The-Hood Corporation, ran in North Carolina from 2016 to 2018. Pair and the other co-conspirators paid people to recruit at-risk youths eligible through North Carolina Medicaid for after-school and youth mentoring programs run by companies Pair operated. Pair...

“Gotta Catch 'Em All” should be the slogan for pursuing all investigations into potential COVID-19 funding fraud. It is actually the English slogan for the Pokémon franchise. Committing fraud is what Vinath Oudomsine was trying to do when he bought the first-edition Pokémon trading...

Every year, numbers show that the lion’s share of False Claims Act settlements and judgements involve healthcare fraud. One big factor to the high quantity of healthcare fraud settlements would be because of the skilled and aggressive efforts of the DOJ fraud enforcement agencies...

Upon completing boot camp, a soldier makes an oath to protect and defend the country. It is called the Oath of Enlistment. Somewhere along the way U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dara Buck forgot that promise and ended up operating a twofold fraud....

Sometimes it’s hard to get funding for new businesses. Sometimes it’s hard to save up for plastic surgery. Carl Delano Torjago saw an opportunity to do both when the federal government rolled out the Paycheck Protection Program for existing companies. But the federal government...

Ezra Hatcher Sr., of Augusta, Ga., and his daughter, Sherry Hatcher, have confessed to filing fraudulent inflated tax returns on behalf of their clients. (Fathers should teach their daughters many things, but how to commit fraud is definitely not one of them.) An Internal Revenue...

Sanford Lamar Edwards,50, of Crawfordville, Ga., pleaded guilty to withholding employment information while applying for and receiving pension benefits from the Veterans Benefits Administration. When sentenced, he faces up to five years in prison, followed by up to three years of supervised release, and...

Vinath Oudomsine, of Dublin, Ga., was sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud for illegally obtaining a COVID-19 disaster relief loan. You might find it very interesting that he used a large portion of the loan to buy...