fraud

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A government program is rife with fraud. After years’ worth of stories about scams during Washington’s Covid-19 spending binge — bogus pandemic-related unemployment benefits totaled an estimated…

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Former President Donald Trump doubled down on calling New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case against him a “witch hunt meant to influence an election” after an expert witness testified there was “no evidence” the 2024 presidential…

The image below is going around the internet as an “I told you so” moment for supporters of a liberal arts education — i.e., one that actually values reading books. On the poster is FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, his hair and dress as…

With the federal government approaching $34 trillion in debt, talk has (finally) turned to the question of how to stop the bleeding. A recent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal offered one possible solution: Had the federal government…

In Connecticut, Superior Court Judge William F. Clark has ordered that the results of recent mayoral primary election in Bridgeport, the state’s largest city, be overturned and a new election held. Clark’s decision affirmed that there was…

In a sweeping ruling on Tuesday that hinders former President Donald Trump’s ability to do business in the state of New York, a Democrat judge relied on an appraisal of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home that valued the sprawling 17-acre Florida…

NEW YORK—Urging the public to stay guarded, the New York City Police Department warned residents Tuesday about a new scam in which vulnerable people were in need. “We’ve seen some cases where scammers will go so far as to lose all their…

WASHINGTON—Noting that the most opulent were under constant pressure to make cons meet, a survey by the Pew Research Center released Monday revealed that nearly six in 10 wealthy Americans are living fraud to fraud. “Burdened by the…

Three years ago, my office, the Mississippi Office of the State Auditor, learned through a whistleblower tip that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds may have been misspent by the Mississippi agency handling that money.…