Originally there was no need for Truong Nguyen to steal identities. In 1979, Nguyen entered the United States from Vietnam as a legal permanent resident. Unfortunately, in 1995 due to a burglary conviction, his status was revoked, and he was ordered to be deported – which for some reason did not happen. And since then, […]
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The CARES Act of 2020 was carefully made by the United States Congress to help everyone during the COVID-19 pandemic, including farmers. In 2020 and 2021, the Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency provided $31 billion in aid to over 950,000 producers of agricultural commodities, including crops, dairy, and livestock, to help offset losses and […]
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Americans have become so familiar with junk mail and spam calls that target seniors one would think most of those scams would be disregarded. Yet when Gary Cox collaborated with those very same marketers, the result was a $1 billion dollar health care scheme – the consequences being not only potential physical harm and denial […]
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One sham marriage can lead to a jackpot of fraud. Abioli Femi Quadri was a Nigerian citizen who acquired permanent residency in the United States through what he himself described as a “fake wedding” in messages to a woman who was not his wife. Turns out Quadri had no aspirations to be a doting husband, […]
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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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