Main Street Dollars

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A former telephone banking consultant at Banco Popular de Puerto Rico in San Juan has been permanently barred from ever working in banking again, under a Federal Reserve Board order naming Gadiel J. Rosario-Alvarado. The Board’s own order says Rosario-Alvarado misappropriated roughly $65,747 from bank customers between 2023 and 2025 by debiting money directly from…

One operator enrolled 14 labs and billed Medicare more than $24 million

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Medicare doesn’t just pay claims and hope they’re legitimate. It runs a growing fraud-detection operation aimed squarely at laboratories, and a case CMS disclosed at the end of August shows how far a single operator can run before that system catches up. One person, using a consulting company, enrolled 14 labs in Medicare’s fee-for-service program…

A woman forged 84 checks on a dead relative’s Social Security and pension, took $110,428, and served one day

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A Massachusetts woman fraudulently collected more than $110,000 in Social Security benefits, pension payments, and COVID relief checks that belonged to a dead relative, cashing 84 forged checks over nearly six years before a federal judge sentenced her to a single day in prison already served. The case, decided in federal court in Worcester, shows…

Prosecutors say a shell company billed Medicare $1.3 billion in five months using the stolen identities of elderly Americans

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A federal grand jury in Boston has indicted a Georgian national on a money-laundering conspiracy charge connected to a durable-medical-equipment company that prosecutors say billed Medicare and other health insurers $1.3 billion in fraudulent claims over five months. The claims relied, prosecutors say, on the stolen identities of elderly and disabled Americans, many of whom…

A mortgage vendor breach is paying $75 with no paperwork, closing November 6

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in Settlements & Claims

SitusAMC Holdings Corporation is not a lender or a loan servicer you’d recognize from a monthly statement. It’s a back-office vendor that processes loan data and paperwork for mortgage companies, which is exactly why most people who got a breach notice from it this year had never heard the name before. Now a $5.3 million…

Five people are charged with signing dead homeowners’ names to take over vacant houses

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Donnie Russell is accused of doing something federal prosecutors call especially cruel: signing a dead homeowner’s own name on a deed to take that person’s house. He is one of five people a federal grand jury in Louisville indicted on August 19, 2026, over a scheme prosecutors say went after vacant houses left behind when…

Chrysler is recalling 239,131 Ram pickups whose backup camera can go dark

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in Recalls

Chrysler has told federal safety regulators that 239,131 Ram 1500 pickups built for the 2025 and 2026 model years can lose their rearview camera picture without any warning light or error message. The cause is a radio software glitch, not a broken camera or a bad wire, and the fix will cost you nothing. But…

Jeep is recalling 328,381 SUVs whose rear springs can fall off, and an earlier repair does not count

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in Recalls

If you own a Jeep Grand Cherokee and already had a rear suspension recall fixed in the past few years, that repair does not close the book. Chrysler parent FCA US, LLC has opened a new recall covering 328,381 SUVs whose rear coil springs may be installed wrong and can detach while the vehicle is…

Two Florida men shipped braces nobody ordered and billed Medicare $34.8 million

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A brace shows up in the mail. Nobody in the house ordered it, no doctor ever mentioned it, and it sits in its box because no one needs it. That is not a shipping error — it is the exact scheme two Florida men just went to federal prison for running on a $34.8 million…

Two people were extradited from France over a timeshare scheme that took $40 million from owners

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