Former County Commissioner Bryan Lober evaded tax fraud charges stemming from an investigation into his use of his county-issued charge card during the COVID-19 pandemic, after the statute of ...

The House approved legislation Tuesday to double the statute of limitations for pandemic unemployment fraud to 10 years, brushing aside Democrats’ attempt to turn the bill into a referendum on Elon ...

A federal inspector general sent a stark warning to Congress, saying they are leaving a massive amount of stolen taxpayer money in scammers’ pockets because lawmakers haven’t extended the statute of ...

WASHINGTON – Over the past three years, the Justice Department’s COVID-19 Enforcement Task Force has charged more than 3,500 people with federal crimes, recovered more than $1.4 billion in stolen ...

The statute of limitations does not protect a taxpayer from a deficiency assessment for fraudulent returns when the fraud was committed by a preparer, the Tax Court ruled. In 2005, Vincent Allen was ...

New York’s century-old Martin Act continues to shape—and reshape—securities enforcement in the Empire State. Originally passed in 1921, as a comprehensive anti-fraud law to combat fraudulent financial ...

For all of the five-year remembrances of COVID-19, few have paused to recall the cyber smash-and-grab that hoovered billions of dollars out of state unemployment offices. Inmates in California grabbed ...

A panel of New York appellate judges on Thursday pressed the state attorney general’s office on critical elements of its case that resulted in a $478 million civil judgment against Donald Trump, as ...

In 2024, federal prosecutors filed charges in an alleged transnational scheme to launder tens of millions of dollars in fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits using cryptocurrency. Among those ...

This week’s action in Congress reflects the sometimes vast gulf between how lawmakers address waste, fraud, and abuse in theory versus practice. The theory was reflected at Wednesday’s inaugural ...