In a tense Minneapolis courtroom on March 19, 2025, federal agents watched as jurors delivered a swift guilty verdict on ...

Large-scale government program fraud, like the massive “Feeding Our Future” scandal that shook Minnesota, or the latest child ...

Arizona is faring better than other states in tracking down money from pandemic unemployment fraud. There is still nearly $4 billion unaccounted for, however. Nationwide, the recovery rate of ...

Luxury cars, homes, jewelry and casino trips were among the spoils of some of the biggest pandemic era fraud cases, according to a CBS News review of five years of government records and data.

Federal law enforcement's hands are tied now that the statute of limitations for prosecuting fraud in COVID-era unemployment programs has expired. While Congress extended the statute of limitations ...

Amber Shultz, the secretary of the Kansas Department of Labor, tells legislators at a Jun. 10, 2025, hearing about the status of the funds recovered after an unprecedented amount of fraudulent ...

The Department of Government Efficiency recently spotlighted unemployment benefits paid to tens of thousands of individuals whose reported birthdates indicated they were either children or dead. One ...

The response to the pandemic led to "enormous outlays of public money which exposed it to the risk of fraud and error", a report says.

A Nigerian man residing in Canada was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 54 months in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft after he defrauded programs intended for aid during ...

The government is warning a voluntary window to return any money owed to taxpayers claimed through pandemic-era schemes ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)– An Amsterdam woman has been sentenced for her involvement in a pandemic fraud conspiracy, the Offices of the New York State Inspector General announced Wednesday. Jodi Drygula, ...