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 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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A compound pharmacy owner, three marketers, a referring physician and two clinic office staff got together. Sounds like a networking night but really was a multi-million dollar healthcare fraud operation bust. Rodriguez was the owner of Pharr Family Pharmacy (PFP). Beginning as early as May 2014 through September 2016, PFP billed various federal healthcare programs […]
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Hannah Heart tricked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) into paying over a million dollars in a multi-person income tax return scheme, with the very same fake tax documents that she first created for her own tax return. Heart made a fake form that looked like it came from a bank and mortgage company. In 2014, […]
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