Alicia England filed fake deeds using stolen identities from the living and the dead, then sold houses she never owned to buyers who found the listings on Facebook Marketplace. On July 14, 2026, a federal judge sent her to prison for 75 months.
An Ohio couple who ran a behavioral-health clinic in Franklin County are accused of billing Medicaid $9.3 million for therapy that prosecutors say never happened, using refugee families as unknowing entries in a ledger. They are believed to be out of the country.
A Queens grand jury says five people used stolen identities and forged licenses to take out a $688,000 cash-out mortgage on a Flushing home the defendants did not own. The real homeowners kept living in it.
Seth Adam Depiano was already serving twelve years for a $24M real estate Ponzi when prosecutors say he built another one from inside federal prison. The second machine ran on contraband phones, dead people's houses, and a 26-year-old who just pleaded guilty.
Federal prosecutors say a Colby, Kansas controller forged 233 checks and moved $753,575 out of her employer's account over nearly nine years. The alleged machine was one person, one signature line, and a room with no second set of eyes.
James Shuford Price III pleaded guilty in federal court on June 24 to running a Los Angeles lab that billed taxpayer-funded health programs for tens of millions in respiratory tests, many authorized by physicians who had never heard of the patients. The doctors did not know their names were on the paperwork. Neither did most of the patients.