Italian prosecutors say more than half a billion euros in state tax credits moved through over sixty shell companies for renovation work that never happened. The scaffolding was the alibi. The state was the mark.
A federal indictment unsealed this week in the Western District of Washington alleges a Frisco, Texas couple ran a curse-removal scheme that pulled more than $2 million from a single Washington victim. The machinery kept running, prosecutors say, even when one operator was behind bars.
A federal contracting program built for service-disabled veterans was allegedly used as a doorway by two companies that did not qualify to walk through it. The DOJ says the door is now closed. The veterans say it was never really open.
Federal prosecutors say a healthcare worker in Miami photographed patient records with his cellphone and sold them to a buyer who resold the lists for as much as $7,000 each. The numbers belonged to more than 6,000 Medicare beneficiaries who never knew their files were leaving the room.
Christopher Staggs ran his pandemic unemployment scheme out of a Chicago LLC and kept a ledger of the people whose identities fueled it. On June 9, 2026, a federal judge gave him two years.
Daniel Pugh sold a trader's life on Facebook from a bedroom in Devon. The FCA has now secured £452,286.80 in compensation. The math of what he actually traded is the part that should stop you.