Rep. George Santos agrees to skip sitting on House committees as poll shows 78% of voters want him out

The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2023:. Michael Rosa, 62, of Salem, pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud, First Assistant United States Attorney Jay McCormack announced today. In March 2020, Congress passed legislation providing additional unemployment benefits to…

President Donald Trump’ s administration“ neglected” state efforts to combat domestic and foreign criminals collecting billions of dollars fraudulently from overwhelmed unemployment systems, California’ s Employment Development Director said Monday. James Comer, R- Ky., that California has done a poor job fighting unemployment fraud.

Cartersville City Manager Dan Porta told The Daily Tribune News that the local government issued nearly half a million dollars to an individual in Illinois fraudulently claiming to be a contractor last year. In mid-January, The Daily Tribune News obtained documents indicating the City of Cartersville had issued almost $120,000 to the Illinois resident.

RICHMOND- After investigating more than 330,000 cases of potential fraud in payment of unemployment claims, the Virginia Employment Commission has confirmed that it has paid out $1.6 billion to people who used someone else's identity to gain public benefits. Virginia Employment Commissioner Carrie Roth had told legislators in August that potential…

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear Montelongo's appeal of a lower court ruling that let the claims stand. Of the 37 plaintiffs who live in Texas, six reside in San Antonio. Montelongo, 52, lives in San Antonio and is best known as the former star of the cable television series "Flip This House.

—The Biden administration estimated Monday that it could collect as much as $4.7 billion from insurance companies with newer and tougher penalties for submitting improper charges on the taxpayers' tab for Medicare Advantage care. The Department of Health and Human Services said it will begin collecting payments from insurers when an audit turns up that…

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey declared that the state’s Captive Insurance Program remains among the world’s strongest domiciles as…

Six Orleans Parish Criminal District Court staffers have sued their employer, alleging officials failed to enroll them in a state retirement system for years— ultimately depriving them of hundreds of thousands of dollars— even as the court quietly paid two other employees more than $150,000 for the same lost funds. In their lawsuit— filed Wednesday in Civil…

As part of its $6 trillion spending spree, Congress created four new unemployment insurance programs. The Department of Labor "s inspector general" testified in March 2022 that the unprecedented infusion of federal COVID-19 relief funds into UI programs during the pandemic gave individuals and organized crime groups a high-value target to exploit.

At least 36 people used the address of this Salvation Army center in Humboldt Park to obtain federal Paycheck Protection Program loans, claiming individual annual income of at least $100,000. Here's the latest news you need to know in Chicago. Top storyClusters of pandemic relief loans went to the same Chicago addressesDuring the peak of the COVID-19…

SHELDON, Iowa– A Sheldon woman has been charged with providing false claims to an insurer in connection with an insurance claim. According to a complaint filed in O'Brien County District Court, Miller in September made false statements about existing auto insurance coverage in an attempt to receive insurance benefits. The Iowa Insurance Division's Fraud…

BANGOR, Maine: A Levant man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor for wire fraud and money laundering arising from his fraudulent receipt of Economic Injury Disaster Loan and Paycheck Protection Plan funds. According to court records, Franck formerly owned CCF Acoustics LLC and CCF Acoustical Systems. In the applications, Franck made numerous…

Baltimore, Maryland– A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Ryan E. Dales, age 34, of Baltimore, Maryland, with illegal possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon and with wire fraud, relating to the submission of fraudulent applications for unemployment insurance benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic…

Terry Aron Beall, 57, of Henderson, doing business as 2- Beall Logging, is accused of stealing between $500 and $20,000 in proceeds from a timber sale from a Rusk County landowner in 2021, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. Beall had an agreement with the landowner to harvest timber from the property; however, the landowner contacted the Texas A&M Forest…

SOUTH BEND— An Elkhart man has admitted he defrauded investors of more than $300,000 in a years-long scheme. Charles Ray Smith, 51, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in U.S. District Court of Northern Indiana on Monday. He admitted that between 2016 and 2021 he fraudulently obtained $315,020 through fraudulent investment opportunities.

MIAMI— A now-shuttered nursing school in suburban West Palm Beach is one of three involved in a scam to create an illegal licensing and employment shortcut for aspiring nurses, federal officials in Miami said Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami has indicted more than two dozen people in the scheme, which sold fraudulent nursing-school diplomas and…

George Guldi. who served as a Long Island Legislator representing the South Fork of Suffolk County, and Litchfield County resident Victoria Davidson, of Lakeville, Connecticut, defrauded Ditech Financial LLC, a mortgage lender, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced. *Guldi, who was in state prison at the time…

A logging contractor has been indicted by a Rusk County grand jury on a state jail felony charge of timber purchase as trustee with intent to defraud. Terry Aron Beall, 57, of Henderson, doing business as 2- Beall Logging, is accused of stealing between $500 and $20,000 in proceeds from a timber sale from a Rusk County landowner in 2021, according to the Texas A&M…

A Boston man who worked as a dentist in Hyannis pleaded guilty to a $1.2 million embezzlement fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’ s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Jack Massarsky, 65, embezzled the $1.2 million from his employer, and fraudulently obtained government benefits in his employer’ s name, the office stated. The office added that…