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A 44-year-old Wheatland man was sentenced to two years and 11 months in federal prison after admitting he submitted false claims for COVID-19 relief and employee retention credits. John Toland ...
Four Sacramento-area men with ties to a former Internal Revenue Service worker have been sentenced to a federal prison term for their role in a plot to fraudulently obtain more than $3 million in ...
In this variation of COVID-19 scams, the fraudster claims that the victim is eligible for a COVID-19 benefit payment. This scam is a derivative of the advance-fee scam, where the scammer will ask the victim for a small payment in return for the 'benefit'. The scammer will then ask for further payments under the guise of problems, until the ...
In terms of COVID-19 relief fraud, the U.S. Secret Service estimated in late December that nearly $100 billion in COVID-19 relief money had been stolen across the country, a news release said.
FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn declined to state whether Trump's "99 percent" statement was accurate or to say how many cases are harmless. [72] As the U.S. COVID-19 daily new case count increased from about 20,000 on June 9 to over 50,000 by July 7, Trump repeatedly insisted that the case increase was a function of increased COVID-19 testing. [73]
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a sharp increase in the use of telemedical services in the United States, specifically for COVID-19 screening and triage. [ 97 ] [ 98 ] As of March 29, 2020 [update] , three companies offered free telemedical screenings for COVID-19 in the United States: K Health (routed through an AI chatbot ), Ro (routed through ...
Three fraudsters who went on the run after being convicted of carrying out a multimillion-dollar Covid-19 relief scam have been captured in Montenegro, U.S. law enforcement sources said Wednesday.
By late November 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 had broken out in Wuhan, China. [2]As reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases on November 30, 2020, 7,389 blood samples collected between December 13, 2019, and January 17, 2020, by the American Red Cross from normal donors in nine states (California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin ...