On May 30, 2025, six individuals were charged in connection with a fraud and bribery scheme that generated over $66 million in unauthorized transactions under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). If fraudsters get recognition where it is due, this is one of the largest food stamp frauds ever in United States history. But one […]
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Broad Street Family Pharmacy, while licensed to provide services to Medicaid and Medicare consumers, had a business model designed really to commit fraud rather than to provide patient-centered care. Elizabeth Thompson owned the pharmacy but her husband, Dello Buono, operated it – even though he was not allowed to be a provider under the Medicaid […]
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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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While Mervat Gharib may have been the owner of Capital City Family Market, and Adam Rashwan may have only been an employee, this husband-and-wife team were equal partners in a million-dollar scheme to not only steal from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but the U.S. taxpayer as well. In May 2021, data from USDA […]
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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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