An 87-Year-Old Woman and Her Purse
Clara Washington, 87, is a compassionate woman who can take care of herself and her sick husband -- which is what she was doing on November 30, 2022 -- running an errand at the Dollar Tree in the Jefferson-Chalmers, MI area. But a thief...
Parking Tickets and Other Violations
Suffolk County, New York, has been dealing with serious fallout since cyberattack back in September of 2022, in which hackers reportedly stole 4 terabytes of data from the county computer systems. Just to give some perspective, a single terabyte (TB) can hold 1,000 copies...
The Happiest Place On Earth
Criminals targeting pandemic relief funds have stolen close to $100 billion estimated so far. The number of cases is so astronomical that the government launched COVID-19 fraud strike force groups around the country dedicated only to pandemic related fraud. But not all cases are...
Diagnosis of a Fraudster
As a counselor at the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA), Karen Lyke’s job was to assist those applying to the state’s Vocational Rehabilitation Services Program. The program is aimed at helping people with disabilities find and maintain employment and also provide funds for college...
All You Need Is a Wig
On Dec. 8, 2021, Eric Jaklitsch was arrested at his home in New Jersey and was transported to the west coast, to be charged in Federal Court for a scheme to defraud the California Employment Development Department (EDD). To execute this scheme, Jaklitsch collected...
Six Months of Silence
The season of professional football is upon us. Practice games are finished, team roosters are finalized, news announcements are made. For the San Francisco 49er’s, the news that Jimmy Garoppolo was no longer head quarterback should have been the big drama of the year....
Dear Student
“Dear Student, your student loan service for Federal Student Aid (FSA), is writing to make you aware of an incident that may affect the security of some of your information. While we are not aware of any actual or attempted misuse of your information…”...
Impersonating What Should Be Sacred
No parent should have to bury their child. And no parent should have to worry that their deceased child’s identity has been stolen. It should be a place any fraudster would not go. But, unfortunately, that is the case for the two pairs of...
Selling Cocaine or Committing Fraud, It’s Still Illegal
Finding inspiration for lyric is extremely important for any songwriter. But for Fontrell Antonio Baines, also known as Nuke Bizzle, he should have chosen another muse than stealing from the COVID-19 Unemployment fund. Released in a YouTube music video, Baines claimed he fraudulently took...
You Can Run, But You Don’t Have To Hide
After six years on the run, a Mexican man who lived in Nashville when he allegedly defrauded the U.S. government has been captured by authorities.
In 2015, Claudio Juarez and 46 others were charged with conspiracy to file false income tax returns against the United...
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