The defendants have been ordered to make restitution payments totaling more than $1 million, according to the Queens District ...

In May 2025, the federal government indicted then-council member Brown for wire fraud conspiracy. Nine months later, Brown told a judge she is guilty under a plea agreement. Brown didn’t say anything ...

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has obtained a new indictment in Fulton County charging six individuals in connection ...

The Internal Revenue Service has now closed nearly all outstanding claims for the employee retention credit aside from 41,000 ...

Tiawana Brown, a former Charlotte City Councilwoman, is expected to formally plead guilty in federal court in connection with ...

A former candidate for a Tri-City area House of Delegates seat has pleaded guilty to stealing from multiple COVID-19 relief ...

A former officer at Alameda’s Ballena Bay Yacht Club is at the center of a high-dollar fraud case, after prosecutors say he ...

A former candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates pleaded guilty Thursday for fraudulently getting over $220,000 in ...

Federal prosecutors claim that Carl Delano Torjagbo siphoned millions in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds and filed fraudulent tax returns to generate tax refunds.

Claims about new stimulus checks, IRS direct deposits, relief payments and tariff dividends spread throughout 2025 — and they’re still circulating in 2026. But is there any truth to them?

The scale of fraud uncovered in recent years has exposed how government transfer programs function, even as meaningful public ...