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    In The Wild, Wild West – And East – Of Healthcare Fraud, These Strike Forces Are On A Mission

    February 26th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    On Feb. 24, the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section released its 2020 “Year In Review.” Sixty-two of the 167 individuals charged last year by the Health Care Fraud Unit were medical professionals, 13 of whom faced charges for illegal opioid prescriptions. Together,...

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  • Final Defendant Sentenced in $7B Stanford Ponzi Scheme

    February 25th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Leroy King, 74, of Dickerson Bay, Antigua, the former chief of Antigua’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) was sentenced on Feb. 24 to 10 years in prison for his role in connection with a $7 billion Ponzi scheme involving...

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  • North Korean Hacker Trio Charged In $1.3B Cyberattack Racket

    February 18th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Three North Korean computer programmers were charged with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies.  Jon...

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  • Trio Charged For Offering Covid-19 Vaccine On Fake Site

    February 15th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Olakitan Oluwalade, his cousin Odunayo Baba Oluwalade and Kelly Lamont Williams were arrested after the HSI Intellectual Property Rights Center and the HSI Cyber Crimes Center became aware of a fraudulent replication of the website of Company 1, a biotechnology company based in...

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  • Man Bought Lamborghini With Money He Got Defrauding PPP

    February 11th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer David T Hines of Miami fraudulently obtained $3.9m in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and used part of these funds to buy himself a Lamborghini Huracan sports car worth $318,000. At the time of his arrest, the car...

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  • Scammers Wasted No Time During Pandemic, FTC data shows

    February 4th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer If you think scammers also took a break during the Covid-19 pandemic, think again! On Feb. 4, the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) said it received more than 2.1 million fraud reports from consumers in 2020. Imposter scams were...

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  • Merida Group CEO gets 15 years for $150m healthcare fraud

    February 3rd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica stafferThe CEO of the Texas-based Merida Group of hospice and home health entities was sentenced to 15 years in prison, on Feb. 3, for falsely telling thousands of patients with long-term incurable diseases they had less than six months...

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  • Maryland man guilty of diverting Afghan reconstruction funds

    December 4th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer A man from Maryland pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme that involved diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for the reconstruction of Afghanistan for his own use instead, the Department of Justice said in a...

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  • Interpol issues global alert on mafia threat to covid-19 vaccine

    December 2nd, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Interpol issued a global alert to law enforcement across its 194 member countries warning them to gear up for organized crime networks targeting covid-19 vaccines. The group’s Orange Notice warned the international community to prepare for possible infiltration...

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  • Indian national sentenced to 20 yrs for scam costing millions

    November 30th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer An Indian national was sentenced to 20 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in operating a scam that defrauded US victims out of millions of dollars between 2013 and 2016. Hitesh...

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  • Members of videogame piracy group ‘Team Xecuter’ arrested

    October 2nd, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Two leaders of ‘Team Xecuter,’ one of the world’s most notorious videogame piracy groups, have been arrested and are in custody facing charges in Seattle, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. The group grew so...

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  • Georgia man sentenced for running Ponzi scheme

    September 25th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer A man from Georgia has been sentenced to 5 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for running a Ponzi scheme that ensnared over a hundred victims, including college students, the US Department of Justice...

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  • Texas woman charged for $1.9 mln covid-relief fraud

    September 15th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer A Texan woman has been taken into custody on allegations of defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of more than $1.9 million in forgivable loans, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. The Small Business Administration...

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  • NFL player charged in $24 mln covid-relief fraud scheme

    September 10th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Former New York Jets wide receiver Joshua J Bellamy was arrested in Florida and charged for his role in a scheme that involved defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The National Football League (NFL) player and his associates...

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  • Attorney charged for defrauding PPP of $9 mln

    September 3rd, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer An attorney from New Jersey was arrested on charges of defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) by obtaining about $9 million in loans, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.   Jae H. Choi, a licensed...

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  • Russian national arrested for malware conspiracy

    August 25th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staff A Russian national was arrested for conspiring to recruit an employee of a Nevada-based company to introduce malicious software into the company’s computer network, extract data from the network, and extort ransom from the company. Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov,...

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  • Minnesota man charged with covid-19 relief fraud

    August 21st, 2020
    category: News Reports

    A Minnesota man was charged for defrauding the PPP of $841,000 | © Ossi Lehtonen - Dreamstime.com By a Biometrica staffer A man from Minnesota was charged for allegedly defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of about $841,000, the US Department of...

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