On June 28, 2025, Jon M. Hallford of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $1,070,413.74 in restitution for a conspiracy to commit wire fraud. This has been described as no ordinary fraud case—and with good reason—as Hallford still awaits sentencing on state charges related to abuse […]
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Back in 1993, Walter’s brother Edward needed to hide. So, Walter, being the good brother, invented a fake identity. And Edward, to evade an arrest warrant, began living in Las Vegas under the false identity of “Steven Connie.” For 16 years, he fraudulently collected insurance and income through Social Security until he was arrested in […]
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Data minimization, a core data privacy principle, means collecting and retaining only the personal data that’s absolutely necessary to fulfill a specific purpose. Companies collect data for a multitude of reasons, primarily to gain a deeper understanding of their customers, improve their business operations, and make better decisions. Or to commit fraud. Jalen Tylee Hill created a […]
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“On my mother’s grave.” Certainly, one of the many idioms often declared to emphasize the truth of a statement. And probably not something said by James Sessoms when he signed any of the many government benefit applications that he filed from November 2019 through November 2023. When signing a government benefit application under penalty of […]
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