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FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report revealed there were 9,521 real estate-based fraud complaints in 2023, which resulted in over $145 million in losses. The fraudsters wisely ...
Swampland in Florida is a figure of speech referring to real estate scams in which a seller misrepresents unusable swampland as developable property. These types of unseen property scams became widely known in the United States in the 20th century, and the phrase is often used metaphorically for any scam that misrepresents what is being sold.
Real estate and mortgage fraud cases may be the latest fallout from the recent real estate bubble. Two recent California court cases demonstrate the lengths that white-collar criminals will go to ...
Homeowners across the U.S. are being targeted in a sophisticated scam in which callers pose as mortgage lenders to defraud people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, ...
A case of Medicaid fraud was carried out in 2010 by an Armenian-American organized crime group called the Mirzoyan–Terdjanian organization. [1] [2] The scam involved a crime syndicate which created 118 fake clinics in 25 states and used stolen medical license numbers of real doctors and matched them to legitimate Medicare patients whose names and billing information were also stolen.
Jimmy Carter signs Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments into law. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as mandated by Public Law 95-452 (as amended), is established to protect the integrity of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, to include Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the health and welfare of the ...
A significant proportion of the Medicaid population "needs access to real, live people who can help them with the redetermination process, which is why the continued failures of the state’s call ...
Leonard and Jack Rosen began their business career as street vendors in Baltimore. [4] They used the earnings of their original business and high-interest loans advanced by Chicago financier Jay Pritzker to set up a real estate development company selling yet-to-be developed plots of land in northwest Florida Everglades to prospective homeowners from the Northeast and Midwest.