Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Office of Statewide Prosecution secured a 30-year prison sentence for a man operating an elaborate real estate investment scheme. Miquel Angel Perez defrauded more than 20 victims out of retirement and life savings through a scheme involving real estate pitches and false promises of wealth made from investments. A Pasco County jury found Perez…
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Car insurance in metro Phoenix is about $226 above the U.S. average. Here's why Arizonans are paying more and how to cut costs.
Larry Bucshon, MD, spent years as a practicing physician and cardiothoracic surgeon before being elected to Congress in 2010. As vice chair of the Health Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy& Commerce, he has reviewed numerous pending bills that would affect health care and medicine around the nation. On Feb. 16, Bucshon spoke to Medical Economics about…
A recent analysis by The Washington Post, backed by data from the Federal Reserve, paints a bleak picture for more than one-third of American adults who lack the financial stability needed to achieve the long-sought-after middle-class status. However, economic reality differs, as the majority of Americans surveyed by The Washington Post perceived the true…
***Related video above: Local senior falls victim to $40 K rebate scam– how investigators caught the suspect** WESTLAKE, Ohio- A Westlake man accused of misappropriating investor money pleaded guilty to fraud and theft charges on Tuesday. According to the Ohio Department of Commerce, Robert Earl pleaded guilty to 22 felony counts in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas…
Federal authorities have seized a 2023 Ford F-150 truck registered to Jon M. Harder, who orchestrated a $120 million fraud scheme as chief executive officer of Sunwest Management and associated accompanies. They plan to sell the truck, worth about $70,000, and apply the proceeds toward Harder’ s outstanding balance of more than $74 million in restitution he was…
Eliyahu "Eli" Weinstein, who was freed by President Trump from a 24-year-prison sentence from two different fraud schemes was indicted in a new con.
Despite a recession scenario and lower payment capacity of Peruvians, premiums in the insurance sector grew 8.1% in 2023, mainly driven by life insurance, according to the Association of Insurance Companies. This segment had an annual increase in net premiums of S/ 989 million, a figure that is equivalent to two thirds of the growth at the sector level, commented…
Arizona is expanding parameters for kids to get Medicaid health coverage.
The“ You Earned It, You Keep It Act” is making a second attempt to eliminate the taxation of Social Security benefits. Angie Craig, the bill eliminates the taxation of Social Security benefits for all retirees. The bill comes with an assessment of its financial impact on Social Security by Stephen C. Goss, its chief actuary.
River water floods West Williams Street on Sept. 2, 2021 in Lincoln Park, New Jersey. N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Ida caused flooding and power outages throughout New Jersey as the Northeast was hit by record rain and tornadoes. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)Quality Journalism for Critical Times Democrats have been critical of…
The Navajo, or Diné, language doesn’ t have a word for diabetes, so when Ernest Harry Begay sees Native patients who have the condition he instead translates it to them as“ being killed by sugar.”. They want to be healed through the traditional Indigenous methods the tribe has used for generations, and Begay offers that care as a licensed counselor and healer in the…
Marisol Galarza, a pediatric care coordinator at Fair Haven Community Health Care, helps a patient with her renewal application. Galarza has helped at least 67 people with their applications so far. (Shahrzad Rasekh/CT Mirror)HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s Medicaid program pays providers less for specialist physician and behavioral health services compared to peer states, a…
DES MOINES- Iowa lawmakers ushered through dozens of potentially consequential health care bills this week ahead of the deadline for bills clear their first committee. Shannon Lundgren, R- Peosta, managed a bill creating a state health-records utility. Mark Costello, R- Imogene, said in a meeting of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee that even with…
Data: St. Louis Federal Reserve. Chart: Axios VisualsHuge numbers of Americans are leaving the workplace in a surprise second wave of the post-COVID retirement boom.Why it matters: An aging country — combined with a booming stock market and a nudge from return-to-office policies — means more working stiffs are preparing to exit the stage.What's happening: The U.S. has about 2.7…
Walmart reports its latest quarterly financial results Feb. 20. Walmart operates roughly 4,700 U.S locations, including about 600 Sam’ s Club sites. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday releases the minutes from its most recent interest rate meeting.
In March of 2022, the U.S. Federal Reserve began bumping up its benchmark interest rate, which had hovered around zero for much of the previous 13 years. For Central Massachusetts banks, that was a lot of change to deal with. Martin Connors, president and CEO of Fitchburg- based Rollstone Bank& Trust, said the rapid rate hikes meant the bank had to pay more to its savings…
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio- Two Northeast Ohio brothers, one claiming to be a prince, face federal fraud and money laundering charges that prosecutors say bilked several people out of up to $10 million. Zubair Abdur Razzaq Al Zubair, 41, claimed to be a prince. Both are natives of East Cleveland and on their business website, Dubai Bridge Investments, state they are…
Donald Trump continued to fume Monday about the staggering financial penalty a New York judge imposed on him and his two sons on Friday.