Fraud

A 47-year-old Queens man faces wire and mail fraud charges as well as two theft of government funds counts for allegedly falsely claiming to own 20 run-down New York City rental properties, collecting federal subsidies and routinely evicting tenants over the course of an eight-year scheme, prosecutors said Tuesday. Starting around 2013, Paul Fishbein, of Far Rockaway, allegedly lied about…

Ponzi schemer Gina Champion-Cain received the maximum sentence for fraud committed against hundreds of victims.

Federal prosecutors for Missouri say a Branson performer has pleaded guilty to a count of wire fraud, admitting in court that he created a fake charity for foster children to bilk his audience members of thousands of dollars.

Massive fraud in the nation’s unemployment system is raising alarms even as President Joe Biden and Congress prepare to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into expanded benefits

Kevin Hart’s one-time personal shopper was charged with defrauding the comedian out of more than $1 million in fraudulent credit card purchases, the Queens District Attorney announced Wednesday.

Kevin Hart’s one-time personal shopper was charged with defrauding the comedian out of more than $1 million in fraudulent credit card purchases, the Queens District Attorney announced Wednesday.

A San Gabriel-based attorney who pleaded guilty to taking part in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme that sold temporary green cards to foreign investors was sentenced Friday to one day behind bars and ordered to perform 120 hours of community service.

A former NYPD sergeant faces federal charges of wire fraud, making false claims, and identity theft in connection with her alleged attempt to receive compensation from several federal 9/11 benefits programs, prosecutors say. Sally Spinosa, 55, of Freehold, New Jersey was an NYPD officer from 1986 to 2019 and was a sergeant in the investigations unit of the NYPD’s Patrol…

A South Florida man who made national headlines when he posed as a doctor while just a teenager found himself back behind bars. NBC affiliate WPTV-TV reports 23-year-old Malachi Love-Robinson was arrested in Palm Beach County on Thursday on charges of fraud and grand theft. Robinson was later released, and details have not been released on the charges. Love-Robinson pleaded…

ParCare returned its doses of the Moderna vaccine but maintains “best efforts” were made to comply with state requirements, according to a company statement on Monday. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Among the more than $110 billion in unemployment benefits California has paid this year to people who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus, $21,000 went to an address in Roseville under the name and Social Security number of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

A Wisconsin dentist is accused of damaging his patients’ teeth so that he could bill insurance companies for crown procedures

Numerous individuals have been charged in connection with a birth tourism and money laundering scheme in Suffolk County that allegedly facilitated pregnant Turkish women to fraudulently enter the United States using tourist and business visas to give birth so that their children would obtain birthright citizenship and medical benefits, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.

A former federal public affairs officer has been sentenced to seven years in prison for pretending to be an undercover CIA operative to persuade companies to give him millions of dollars.

The former police chief of Connecticut’s largest city and another former official are expected to plead guilty Monday in their federal fraud case. A change of plea hearing is scheduled for former Bridgeport Police Chief Armando Perez and former acting Personnel Director David Dunn. Perez and Dunn resigned last month after being arrested on federal fraud charges. They are accused of...

The art dealers and suspected fraudsters allegedly used the identities of deceased collectors to create the fake histories for antiquities they sold

A federal lawsuit accuses New York City and thousands of other school districts of defrauding special needs students by depriving them of hands-on therapies during the pandemic. According to the lawsuit, school districts across the nation have been improperly collecting federal education subsidies meant to fund things like physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy. Traditionally, those services are provided...

Parents across the country say that school districts are taking COVID-19 precautions too far when it comes to students with special needs. Chris Glorioso reports.

An attorney in New Jersey has been indicted with multiple counts of bank fraud and other crimes for allegedly obtaining, fraudulently, nearly $9 million in federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to prosecutors. Jae H. Choi, 48 and of Cliffside Park, was indicted Tuesday with four counts of bank fraud, four counts of false statements on a loan application, one…

Bridgeport’s mayor said Saturday he had nothing to do with what federal prosecutors describe as a corrupt process that led to the appointment of Armando Perez as the police chief of Connecticut’s largest city. Perez, who served on the force for nearly four decades, and David Dunn, the city’s acting personnel director, both resigned after being charged Thursday with...