Insurance & Healthcare Fraud

2+ hour, 49+ min ago   (580+ words) Accenture will write the government a $25 million check. The Justice Department said the world’s largest IT consulting firm used race and sex as hiring and promotion tools while telling federal customers it did not. Accenture Federal Services, Accenture plc, and…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago   (286+ words) An 80-year-old Independence, Missouri, man has pleaded guilty in federal court to fraudulently obtaining $124,262 in disability-related payments from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs after admitting he fabricated claims about combat service, military decorations, and a medical diagnosis. James Lyon admitted…...

8+ hour, 2+ min ago   (1535+ words) by PATRICK HAUF | Spotlight on Maryland Five home health care companies in Washington, D.C., received $820.5 million in taxpayer-funded Medicaid payments years after local regulators moved to terminate them from the program over “credible allegations of fraud.” The payments were issued despite…...

17+ hour, 49+ min ago   (182+ words) A former case manager at the Children’s Services Center in Wilkes-Barre has pleaded guilty to charges alleging he filed dozens of fraudulent claims and defrauded Medicare out of more than $72,000, according to court records. Khalil Rashid Rivera, 31, of Scranton, pleaded…...

12+ hour, 48+ min ago   (707+ words) Eastern District of Texas joins DOJ Fraud Division, SBA, and SBA OIG in COVID era loan takedown exceeding $245 million in fraud North Texas e-News From June 12 to September 1, federal prosecutors across the country facilitated fraud enforcement actions involving over 160 defendants…...

10+ hour, 30+ min ago   (57+ words) fox9.com A Twin Cities man accused of stealing nearly $1.3 million from a Medicaid program meant to help people with disabilities find housing was released from federal custody on GPS monitoring and home confinement after pleading not guilty in the case....

14+ hour, 38+ min ago   (283+ words) The US has confirmed the capture in Venezuela of Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre, known as "El Ingeniero" and "Prometeo," who was among the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives. "Just this past weekend, we captured a thug down in Venezuela who was…...

16+ hour ago   (56+ words) Law360 Try our Advanced Search for more refined results The Practice of Law Deep News & Analysis Law360 | The Practice of Law Law360 Authority | Deep News & Analysis Law360 Pulse | The Business of Law Lindberg Says Special Master Order Defies Court Record Law360 is on it, so…...

11+ hour, 40+ min ago   (419+ words) PORTLAND, OR — Federal prosecutors in Oregon say they have launched a new wave of criminal and civil actions targeting fraud tied to pandemic relief programs, citing millions of dollars in alleged losses and recoveries since the effort intensified this summer....

18+ hour, 4+ min ago   (334+ words) Fox News' Chanley Painter reports on the capture of Elaine Angene Escoe, a COVID-19 fraud fugitive, in Jamaica. Escoe is accused of fraudulently obtaining over $32 million in taxpayer-funded COVID-19 relief funds and fled the country in 2025. FBI Director Kash Patel…...