DME stands for Durable Medical Equipment. It’s a class of medical gear which attracts a lot of fraud because Medicare agrees to pay 80% of the cost of any DME, such as a wheelchair, that is prescribed by a physician. The other factor that makes this kind of fraud appealing to criminals is that there...
Jessica Thomas Jessica (left) and Gemma Thomas say they wouldn’t have been able to get through the past 10 years without each other Two sisters whose mother went from being their best friend to stealing their £50,000 inheritance say they have been left feeling anxious and unable to trust anyone. Katherine Hill, 53, from Alltwen...
BBC In the early 2010s, two ornate chairs said to have once belonged on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles appeared on the French antiques market. Thought to be the most expensive chairs made for the last queen of France, Marie Antoinette, they were stamped with the seal of Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot, a celebrated –...
Joe Pike Political correspondent PA Media There was a “pervasive fraud environment” at one of the UK’s largest trade unions, an auditors’ report obtained by the BBC has concluded. Unite, which used to be Labour’s biggest donor, also faced an “impairment” – effectively a financial hit – of £53.8m related to the building of a...
Republicans have claimed they’re “saving” Medicaid from “waste, fraud and abuse” with massive cuts. President Donald Trump has quietly commuted the sentence of a Florida health care executive convicted of leading a Medicare fraud scheme to pilfer $205 million from the program through false means — even as the GOP claims that their massive cuts...
May be? It may be the worst scandal since Woodrow Wilson, and over the same type of incapacity. Watergate was a criminal conspiracy to cover up a dirty political campaign trick. Bidengate involves the hijacking of the presidency itself, with a conspiracy that involves senior leaders of a major political party and Cabinet officials, not...
Yesterday, Harvard revoked the tenure of a well-known researcher named Francesca Gino who studies ethics and honesty. Ironically, she has been accused of fabricating data. This is the first time Harvard has stripped a professor of tenure in 80 years. Harvard University revoked the tenure of Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino after years of...
US President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to a former Virginia sheriff who was convicted on fraud and bribery charges. A jury found former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins guilty of accepting more than $75,000 (£55,000) in bribes last December, in exchange for making several businessmen into law enforcement officers without them being trained....
Tessa Wong and BBC Vietnamese BBC News Miss Grand International Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien won the Miss Grand International pageant in 2021 Vietnamese authorities have arrested a beauty queen and social media influencer for consumer fraud after she promoted a counterfeit fibre supplement. Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien had heavily marketed gummies said to be rich...
An internal document bolsters warnings that the hunt for fraud is a pretext for slashing Social Security benefits. An internal Trump administration document reportedly shows that anti-fraud checks recently installed at the Social Security agency have found just two cases of potentially improper benefit claims out of more than 110,000 — a rate of 0.0018%....
Brazil’s Social Security Minister, Carlos Lupi, has resigned nine days after police unveiled a major corruption scandal which defrauded pensioners of $1.1bn (£829m). Federal police allege that over the past decade, the National Social Security Institute (INSS) made unauthorised deductions from payments made to millions of pensioners. The money was allegedly paid to several associations...
Devon and Cornwall Police (L-R) Mark Baker, Matthew Heyward, Timothy Patterson and Richard King were jailed Six people have been sentenced for their roles in a £1.7m construction scam in which staff hired by an energy firm accepted bribes in the form of cash, dodgy references and gifts including a Range Rover and an air...
Hmmm. No wonder Scott Pelley and Bill Owens spent last week protesting internal accountability for the deceptive edits on 60 Minutes’ interview of Kamala Harris. It must have been worse than we thought. What else are we to conclude from an alleged decision by Paramount’s board to settle Donald Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit? The New...
Remember this guy? In a crowded field of professional liars, he is perhaps the biggest liar elected to congress, at least recently. Today former Rep. George Santos was handed a 78 month sentence after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft last year. He tearfully begged the judge for mercy but didn’t get it. ...
The Daily Caller made a visit to two homes apparently owned by Letitia James. A visit to one of those homes was mentioned on Laura Ingraham’s show. Footage Obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation SHOUTED OUT on @FoxNews ???? INGRAHAM: “She [Letitia James] claimed that a Virginia property was her primary residence. And that allowed...