Mobile AL October 18 2021 A 64-year-old grandmother in Alabama will spend time in prison after prosecutors said she embezzled more than half a million dollars from the medical practices where she worked over the course of a decade. Betty Fables Harrison was the longtime business manager and administrator at two practices in Mobile, Alabama, […]
Charlotte NC October 11 2021 An Amazon shopper who for five years bought expensive items – including a top-of-the-line iMac Pro – and then mailed cheaper items as returns faces up to 20 years in prison for wire fraud, prosecutors said. Hudson Hamrick, of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday pleaded guilty in the US District […]
Washington DC Sept 20 2021 The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced criminal charges against 138 defendants, including 42 doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals, in 31 federal districts across the United States for their alleged participation in a number of health care fraud schemes that resulted in approximately $1.4 billion in alleged losses. The […]
Virginia Beach VA Sept 16 2021 It was described in court papers as possibly the biggest counterfeit coupon scheme in history, costing about 100 retailers and manufacturers more than $31 million in losses. And the mastermind behind it all? A Virginia Beach entrepreneur and mother of three who’d been designing and printing the highly realistic coupons […]
Florence, South Carolina Sept 11 2021— Acting United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina M. Rhett DeHart announced today that Emmanuel Papas, 52, of Myrtle Beach, a former lead transportation security officer with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), has been sentenced to more than one year in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing […]
Providence RI August 24 2021 A registered nurse and nurse practitioner who allegedly billed and received more than $2.3 million dollars from commercial health insurers and Medicaid for services he falsely claimed to have performed on patients in Rhode Island, New York, and Florida is in federal custody in Florida and will be brought to […]
NORFOLK, Va. Aug 18 2021– A former chief administrator at the Mid-Atlantic Maritime Academy has been sentenced to 45 months in prison for his role in making counterfeit certificates and selling them to Merchant Marines for profit. 43-year-old Lamont Godfrey of Virginia Beach was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for mail fraud, […]
GREENBELT MD Aug 4 2021 A Prince George’s County man admitted Tuesday to using stolen information of coworkers and job applicants to open fraudulent bank and credit accounts. A former security guard, prosecutors said he continued his scheme even after he was indicted. Ricardo Carter of Camp Springs pleaded guilty in a Greenbelt federal court to […]
Greenbelt, Maryland July 30 2021– Ricardo Carter II, age 37, of Camp Springs, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, in connection with a check kiting and credit scheme using the stolen identity information of coworkers and job applicants to open fraudulent bank and credit accounts, causing more […]
SAN JOSE CA July 9 2021 A security company based in San Jose is accused of failing to pay its employees, while it received hundreds of thousands of dollars in government assistance during the pandemic. Connie Maddox was excited to start her new full-time job filing reports for Customized Security Services this past February. But she […]