Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who’s famous for his former hospital company’s record-setting Medicare fraud settlements, is currently leading an effort to make Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” even more painful for America’s poor. The legislation already cuts $930 billion from Medicaid, the nation’s government health insurance program for low-income and …
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Tom Girardi, the estranged husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsstar Erika Jayne, was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in federal prison for embezzling “tens of millions of dollars” of settlement money that belonged to his clients. Girardi was disbarred in California in July 2022. “This self-proclaimed ‘champion of justice’ …
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On Tuesday, Elon Musk and America PAC — a Super PAC the billionaire founded to support Donald Trump‘s 2024 presidential run — were hit with a second lawsuit over allegedly deceptive advertising practices related to its daily $1 million lottery. From Oct. 19 through Election Day, America PAC awarded $1 …
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There’s no such thing as free money. But on TikTok, the apparent solution to that adage seems to be ignoring it entirely — often committing fraud in the process. Over the weekend, the phrase “Chase bank hack” went viral on the video-sharing app after users became convinced that the ATM …
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Federal investigators have indicted a North Carolina man over a scheme in which he allegedly used bot accounts and hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs to earn more than $10 million in royalty payments from the major streaming services. The case is a landmark development in the still-developing music streaming …
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Sean Kingston was booked in South Florida Sunday after being extradited from California and charged with committing more than $1 million worth of fraud with his mother Janice Turner. According to the Broward County Sheriff’s Department records, the singer, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, is being held on a …
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The chief financial officer of right-wing media media company, The Epoch Times, has been arrested and charged with heading a $67 million global money laundering scheme. Weidong Guan, also known as Bill Guan, was charged with one count of conspiring to commit money laundering and two counts of bank fraud, …
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Elizabeth Holmes‘ federal prison sentence has been reduced for a second time. The disgraced Theranos founder is currently serving an 11 year and three-month-long sentence at a federal women’s prison camp in Bryan, Texas, that was initially knocked down by two years and has now been shorted by an additional …
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Gregory Nolan is a former federal prosecutor and current white-collar defense attorney at Brown White & Osborn. The headlines suggest prosecutors are kicking ass and taking names in the fight against white-collar crime. In only the past few weeks, federal prosecutors indicted Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on even more corruption …
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