Eleven people have been sentenced to federal prison for a parking-lot scam in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia that targeted credit union members in public places. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said on Sept. 25, 2026, that the longest term was three years and six months. According to the…

A federal jury has convicted the chief executive of a “smart rings” company of running a Ponzi scheme that took nearly $2 million from investors. Michelle Bisnoff, 59, of Boca Raton, Florida, was found guilty on September 24, and she is due to be sentenced in January. Affiliate links — we may earn a commission.…

A Rockford, Illinois, woman has admitted in federal court that she collected more than $2 million in federally funded pandemic unemployment aid by filing for people who never asked for it. Carissa Jordan, 46, pleaded guilty to wire fraud this week, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois says the identities…

A federal jury in Minnesota has convicted Sharmaine Meadows, 45, of Lake Elmo, on three counts of health care fraud. Prosecutors say Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program paid her company more than $3.6 million between 2020 and 2025 for services that were mostly never provided. The Justice Department announced the Oct. 7 verdict the…

The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division has told federal prosecutors to move on suspected fraud money early, seizing assets before anyone is indicted. The instruction came in a directive, numbered 26-13, issued on Oct. 8 by Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald. It also calls for digital takedowns, so that money tied to a…

Adam Iza, a 26-year-old who calls himself “The Godfather,” was sentenced on Oct. 5 to 78 months in federal prison, a little over six years. Prosecutors say he made about $37 million selling access to hijacked Meta business ad accounts, then hid enough of it that the IRS lost $13,286,152 in taxes. He was also…

A woman in western New York was 77 when a stranger on Facebook introduced himself as a widower living in Norway. Over about 18 months she sent him roughly 30 gift cards and mailed eight checks totaling over $162,000. A federal judge has now sentenced the Georgia man who received some of that money in…

Dr. Le Thu, 71, of Boston, was sentenced on Oct. 6 to 36 months in prison, three years, for signing Medicare orders for patients she had never treated. She was also ordered to pay over $27 million in restitution. Medicare paid more than $27 million on claims that came from her orders. Orders signed without…

Miguel Baron, 62, was walking onto a one-way flight to Toronto at LaGuardia Airport when New York state authorities arrested him. Prosecutors say the Queens pharmacy owner took more than $31 million from Medicaid and a related state drug program for HIV medicine. Attorney General Letitia James announced the arrest and indictment on Oct. 7,…

A Yuma, Arizona doctor was sentenced on Oct. 2 to 7.5 years in prison and ordered to repay $36,542,901.45 to Arizona’s Medicaid program, about $36.5 million. The case centers on clinics that billed for far more medical work than any patient could have received. One patient’s account alone was billed for more than 1,700 X-rays…