Missouri

On December 1, 2022, Reginald Bagley, of Dellwood, Missouri, admitted in court to stealing his dead mother's Social Security payments over a twenty-six year period accumulating nearly $197,329 in the process. Our fraudster actually claims he didn’t mean to steal his mothers Social Security benefits. ...

Semaj Portis registered a company called Forever Riding with the Missouri Secretary of state. The name of the business suggests a business of activity such as riding bike or riding horse. For Portis it meant riding out the opportunities to commit fraud with COVID-19...

Maybe the kind of businesswoman Barbara Martin actually was could have been figured out by the actions behind her application to be a Medicaid provider in 2013. Martin had falsely listed her daughter, Zamika Walls, on the application as the person who ran the...

Two years ago, on August 3, 2020, Christen Schulte pled guilty to wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering from her employer and other individuals associated with her employer as a book keeper and office manager of a farm and trucking company. Despite the...

The risk of Covid-19 during the pandemic made it unsafe for non-Covid 19 medical care, thus the invention of telemedicine care. Doctors worked from home meeting patients on line to administer medical care. But like so many other Covid-19 programs and newly formed businesses...

A federal jury, on June 21, 2022, found Missouri Rep. Patricia Derges guilty of multiple counts of health care fraud, including defrauding Green County of federal money and marketing bogus stem cell treatments. Derges, an assistant physician, was elected in November 2020 to represent Christian...

A number of former officers and employees of Preferred Family Healthcare (PFH) of Springfield, Missouri, as well as several former Arkansas politicians are being prosecuted in separate criminal cases for multiple fraud and bribery-related offenses, including violations of the Arkansas and federal False Claims...

Telehealth allowed the healthcare industry to remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic. When many were opposed to venturing out to the doctor, telehealth filled the gap and provided a way for individuals to receive necessary medical and mental health services. The door was also...

Being disabled makes it very difficult to hold a job and earn a paycheck. That’s where Social Security disability insurance comes in to save the day. This government program provides benefits to disabled workers when they can no longer work due to their disability....

A Kansas City, Mo., woman pleaded guilty and was sentenced for a Social Security and bankruptcy fraud scheme. Carol Dille pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of bankruptcy fraud. She was sentenced to two years in federal prison without...