May 10, 2010
Identity theft affects all current walks of life causing serious consequences for the victims of this growing fraud crime. More and more, social security numbers of innocent victims are falling int...
May 04, 2010
The Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services announced that a former clinic owner was convicted of charges including Medicare fraud and money laundering in federal cour...
Apr 28, 2010
The federal government filed an information against a former chief financial officer for her alleged involvement in the Rothstein $1.2 billion Ponzi Scheme. The information alleges one count of mon...
Apr 19, 2010
Another tool implemented by federal authorities to uncover and prosecute healthcare fraud scams now includes a hot line. The Florida consumer hot line accepts calls from Medicare beneficiaries whos...
Apr 15, 2010
A defendant charged with mail fraud and wire fraud for running an investment scam out of Costa Rica was sentenced to 115 months in federal prison. Dilraj Mathauda was indicted on charges alleging t...
Apr 14, 2010
A South Florida man entered a guilty plea in federal court to charges stemming from a $60 million Medicare fraud scheme. Ihosvany Marquez appeared in federal court and admitted to a United States D...
Apr 13, 2010
Two members of Congress from South Florida are backing new legislation to combat the massive Medicare fraud that costs U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars every year. The politicians believe the leg...
Apr 07, 2010
Four individuals were indicted in federal court on mortgage fraud and identity theft charges for concocting a scheme to defraud JP Morgan Chase Bank out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. One of ...
Apr 05, 2010
Medicare fraud appears to be under attack again in an effort to pay for the recently passed healthcare reform legislation. The task forces created to battle the massive fraud that has encompassed t...
Mar 30, 2010
A former South Florida resident who left for Detroit to commit Medicare fraud was sentenced to eight years in federal prison. Daisy Martinez was accused of stealing millions of dollars from the fed...
Mar 29, 2010
The man behind the largest credit card fraudin the history of the United States received a twenty year prison sentence for two separate cases in federal court. Alberto Gonzalez appeared before a Un...
Mar 22, 2010
It is no secret that ever since the economy's meltdown in 2007 that the federal government is cracking down on all individuals responsible for planning, organizing and operating the schemes to defr...
Mar 17, 2010
A statewide investigation culminated in nineteen arrests for insurance fraud relating to staged automobile accidents. Arrests were made in Fort Myers, Orlando, Pensacola, Tampa and Miami, Florida. ...
Mar 08, 2010
A South Florida couple was indicted again in federal court for allegedly stealing medical records and selling them to local personal injury attorneys. In the first indictment, Reuben Rodriguez and ...
