In the United States, more than a half a million children are identified as victims of abuse or neglect every year. They say life is a deck of cards. Well, these kids have been dealt a bad hand. And the croupier dealing out the cards to the kids in South Dakota would be Lonna Carroll, […]
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Deaun Larson Holdaway served as an office manager at Measures of Affect Theoretically Relative (MATR), a group of substance abuse treatment centers in Utah. She, along with two other administrators, handled day-to-day operations including submitting claims to Medicaid – which in 2018, when MATR first became a Medicaid provider, required very little administration. But in […]
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Arizona Foothills Magazine’s “Best of Our Valley” awards has regularly recognized Stephanie Hockridge as “Favorite Newscaster” and particularly in the year 2014 as “Best Weekends Anchor.” But this year, 2025, it is looking like Hockridge is going to clinch the nomination for Arizona Foothills “Fraudster of The Year.” On June 23, 2025, Hockridge, a former Phoenix […]
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Hard to deny that infomercials know how to sell using a variety of techniques that create a sense of urgency and appeal to emotions that capture viewer attention. They encourage them to buy what was earlier not necessarily wanted. A perfect tactic for a fraudster scheming to sell thousands of orthotic braces on the taxpayers […]
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Becoming a musician can be a daunting path filled with various challenges including high competition, creative burnout, and financial instability. While future platinum record artists may not be inherently better or worse with finances than people in other professions, the nature of the music industry can present unique financial challenges – challenges that Onomen Uduebor […]
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When one works their way up the ladder, or even halfway up, in the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), they are given access to not only a repository of data necessary for millions of people seeking benefits, but they are also sitting on the mother lode of personal identifying information. Which is key to any […]
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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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The original U.S. Food Stamp Program, now known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), was created during the Great Depression to address two main issues: fighting hunger among low-income individuals and families, and dealing with surplus agricultural production. The program aimed to alleviate both problems simultaneously by providing food assistance to those in need and supporting agricultural markets […]
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Possibly the biggest announcement regarding Medicare fraud cases ever made by the Justice Department occurred on June 30, 2025, “Largest Justice Department Health Care Fraud Takedown in History. More than Doubles Prior Record of $6 Billion.” The conclusion of this monumental health care fraud takedown resulted in record-breaking criminal charges against 324 defendants including 96, […]
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Ramon Apellaniz previously operated The Gemini Project, LLC (“Gemini”), a business that offered counseling to patients with mental, behavioral, and emotional disorders…even though Apellaniz was not a licensed provider. A fact that he withheld from his clients and the Department of Health and Human Services. But in January 2020, with almost $1 million fraudulent Medicaid […]
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