An Orange County woman pleaded guilty on August 27 to a federal health care fraud charge for submitting more than $2.2 million in false Medicare claims for hospice care that patients who were not actually dying should never have received. Lynn Galbraith, 60, of Anaheim, admitted in her plea agreement that she billed Medicare for…

Customers along one Smyrna, Georgia mail route started noticing something wasn’t right long before federal investigators showed up. Checks were going missing, and complaints piled up until the U.S. Postal Service’s own watchdog agency started watching the route itself. What they found was a mail carrier who had been quietly diverting the neighborhood’s checks for…

For three straight quarters of fiscal year 2026, adults younger than 50 have reported losing money to Social Security-related scams more often than adults 50 and older, according to the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General. The finding comes from the OIG’s Issue 20 Quarterly Scam Update, published August 25, 2026, and it…

Eric James Stone spent about three years building a relationship with a 75-year-old woman who trusted him with her money because of the title on his business card. By the time federal investigators finished tracing where that money went, Stone had moved her through more than 600 separate transactions, and most of what she sent…

A Las Vegas jury needed nine days of testimony to reach a conclusion federal investigators had been building toward for years: Brent Kovar’s cryptocurrency company was never going to make good on the $24 million he had collected from hundreds of ordinary investors. On August 24, jurors found Kovar guilty of wire fraud, mail fraud…

Impersonating the MyChart patient portal, a wave of near-identical emails and text messages has been landing in patients’ inboxes promising a free “MyChart Medicare Kit” that doesn’t exist. The messages carry the MyChart logo and promise a free “MyChart Medicare Kit” or “Senior Health Package,” and dozens of hospitals and health systems around the country…

A Houston man’s sentencing this week closes out a case that shows exactly how far scam proceeds can travel before anyone gets them back. A federal judge ordered Oluwasegun Baiyewu to serve 95 months in prison for laundering more than $3.1 million taken from victims of business email compromise, romance, and unemployment insurance fraud schemes,…

Five men were indicted on charges that they laundered more than $7.4 million in fraud proceeds taken from at least 77 victims through 21 shell companies and 44 bank accounts routed to Hong Kong and China, federal prosecutors in Seattle allege. Federal prosecutors in Seattle say five men laundered more than $7.4 million in proceeds…

More than $7.5 million in cash and gold moved from nine elderly victims to a single alleged courier, according to federal prosecutors in Buffalo. Nine people in New York and New Jersey, ranging from 59 to 87 years old, were talked into converting their savings into cash and gold and then handing it to a…

A federal judge in Atlanta handed down the maximum prison term the law allows to the man behind what prosecutors call likely the largest Ponzi scheme in Georgia history. Todd Burkhalter is now serving 20 years for a fraud that took in roughly $380 million from more than 2,000 investors, many of whom, prosecutors say,…