US prosecutors on Saturday urged a federal appeal court to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim that he cannot face criminal charges for seeking to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the prosecution, argued in a court filing that nothing in the US Constitution or American legal … Read more
DOVER, Del. — Delaware’s largest hospital system will pay more than $47 million to settle whistleblower allegations by its former compliance officer that it provided kickbacks to outside doctors in return for patient referrals, resulting in fraudulent Medicaid billing. The settlement announced Friday comes nearly seven years after Ronald Sherman filed his whistleblower lawsuit, which … Read more
LOS ANGELES — A San Fernando Valley man was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months of home detention for fraudulently obtaining $345,108 in COVID-19 pandemic relief loans from a financial institution and the Small Business Administration. Artur Chanchikyan, 56, of Porter Ranch, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee to serve three years of … Read more
Screenshot: WPBF A car dealer in Delray Beach, Florida has been charged with federal wire fraud for allegedly stealing nearly $8 million from investors in December 2020. According to federal investigators, Stephen Neary, the owner of Palm Beach Auto Group, “misappropriated investor funds for his own personal use and benefit, without any notice to, or … Read more
Dear Gov. Newsom: Thanks for the new laws. Thanks for the new inspectors. Thanks, I guess, for trying, even a little. But — and isn’t there always a but? — it’s not working. And it’s maddening that the fraud and abuse still plaguing California’s addiction treatment industry aren’t being exposed by California’s regulators, or California’s … Read more
A 36-year-old man who defrauded more than two dozen Orthodox Jewish investors out of $25 million in a Ponzi-like scheme to fund gambling and private jet flights was sentenced Friday, Dec. 15, to 6½ years in federal prison. Yossi Engel, who previously lived in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles before moving to Israel in … Read more
A total of 17,000 people were indicted for taking part in overseas cyber syndicates in the first 10 months, up 5.3 per cent compared to the corresponding period last year. Their victims were mostly in mainland China. Myanmar cybercrime kingpin dead, family handed over to China China also stepped up its crackdown on human smugglers … Read more
By Stephanie Halasz and Tamar Michaelis | CNN The corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu restarted Monday after a two month pause that followed the state of emergency declared after the October 7 Hamas attacks. Israeli Minister of Justice Yaris Levin lifted the state of emergency effective December 1. Netanyahu’s corruption trial first … Read more
