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Operation Choke Point was an initiative of the United States Department of Justice beginning in 2013 [1] which investigated banks in the United States and the business they did with firearm dealers, payday lenders, and other companies that, while operating legally, were said to be at a high risk for fraud and money laundering.
$14.2 billion to give one-time $250 payments to Social Security recipients, people on Supplemental Security Income, and veterans receiving disability and pensions. $3.45 billion for job training; $3.2 billion in temporary welfare payments (TANF and WIC) $500 million for vocational training for the disabled; $400 million for employment services
Scam letter posted within South Africa. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is a common confidence trick.The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum.
Bad news for Kroger shoppers: it turns out that the $250 coupon you may have seen making the rounds on social media is actually a fake. The retailer confirmed the scam in a statement on social ...
Most of the money collected in the scheme went to Jeffers to pay commissions to salespeople, to make payments to investors to keep the scheme going, and to pay his own personal expenses. [ 195 ] In February 2006, Edmundo Rubi pleaded guilty to bilking hundreds of middle- and low-income investors out of more than $24 million between 1999 and ...
The False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729–3733, also called the "Lincoln Law") is an American federal law that was passed on March 2, 1863 during the American Civil War, that allows people who are not affiliated with the government to file actions against federal contractors claiming fraud against the government. The law represented an effort ...
Weiss rejected a government offer of a plea deal in which he would have served five years in prison, and chose to go to trial. [8] Weiss fled the country while the jury was deliberating. In November 1999, he was found guilty in absentia at the trial and was sentenced to 845 years in prison, three years of supervised release, a fine of $123.4 ...
New York v. Trump is a civil investigation and lawsuit by the office of the New York Attorney General (AG) alleging that individuals and business entities within the Trump Organization engaged in financial fraud by presenting vastly disparate property values to potential lenders and tax officials, in violation of New York Executive Law § 63(12).