American’s love restaurants. And understanding how important they are to the economy, the United States Congress enacted special measures in the CARES Act to support the restaurant industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RFF) was designed to provide eligible restaurants with funding equal to their COVID-19 pandemic-related revenue losses. RRF recipients were […]
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Recent investigative reports by Shana Dovi on Medium have unveiled serious allegations against CoinsPaid, an Austrian cryptocurrency payment processor operating under Dream Finance OÜ in Estonia
The numbers will remind us how many losses we had due to the COVID-19 pandemic, like the losses incurred by schemes created from fraudsters like Macovian Doston, Shatara Hubbard, Torella Wynn, who defrauded the Georgia Department of Labor (GaDOL) out of tens of millions of dollars in benefits meant to assist unemployed individuals during the […]
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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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After years of medical school, many graduates are content to be referred to as “Doctor.” But Jorge Zamora- Quezada, a rheumatologist who was licensed to practice medicine, preferred to call himself “Eminencia,” or eminence. Quite a lofty term for someone perpetuated a healthcare scheme from fraudulent claims and false diagnoses that not only put patients […]
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“911, what is the address of your fraud?” On March 8, 2025, California Highway Patrol (CHP) Erica Robins, along with her five co-conspirators, were taken into federal custody on a 10-count indictment alleging they fraudulently obtained millions of dollars in COVID-19 government unemployment benefits. From April 2020 to July 2022, Robins and her co-conspirators allegedly […]
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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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Guest: Everett Frazier, Commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles. This episode of the FraudKast focuses on Real ID and explores the benefits of making services available to the public with the idea of speeding the process and reducing costs. This solution deployed in West Virginia has been proven to reduce […]
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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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“What About Us,” is an anthem that questions the treatment of those who feel unheard and forgotten, using “us” to represent this collective group. The lyrics explore a sense of abandonment and the feeling of being overlooked that can resonate for all. Nakita Cannady owned and operated a home health services business called What About Us, […]
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