Recovery Scams

The clinic billed Medicaid $1.7 billion. The ledger says the math never worked.

A Kentucky addiction treatment company built itself into the state's largest provider by billing Medicaid more than a billion dollars. Federal investigators, two creditors, and former employees are now describing the same machine from different doors.

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OpenAI knew eight months before Tumbler Ridge and said nothing

Seven lawsuits filed April 29, 2026, allege that OpenAI's own safety team flagged a credible mass shooting threat in June 2025, concluded the user posed imminent danger, and recommended calling police. The lawsuits allege that leadership overruled them. Eight people died the following February.

Recovery Scams

He was fired in October. In November, the register still knew his hands.

A former Chick-fil-A employee in Grapevine, Texas allegedly walked back behind the counter after his termination and ran 800 fake mac and cheese orders through the register, refunding each one to his own credit cards. The machine that let him do it was not a hack. It was a door that nobody thought to close.

Recovery Scams

Amazon paid $4 million to a Telegram storefront that sold refunds like a subscription

A group called RBK built a working business out of Amazon's customer service window, charging clients 15 to 30 percent to file fraudulent refund claims on high-value electronics and keeping the goods. The machine ran for over two years before Amazon sued. The eleven people sentenced last week for a parallel operation suggest this was never a small problem.

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He came back after they fired him and rang up mac and cheese 800 times

Ray Delgado · Apr 30

He typed one number and the machine swallowed his life savings

Ray Delgado · Apr 26
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