Category: Federal
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Las Vegas Tax Preparer Sentenced to 30 Months for $5 Million Refund Fraud
Iris Hondermann, owner of Silver State Tax & Multiservices LLC in Las Vegas, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false tax returns with the IRS and diverting fraudulent refunds to herself and a codefendant. Between 2017 and 2021, Hondermann and her codefendant prepared tax…
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Texas Attorney General Accused of Voting Illegally From Wrong Address in Six Elections
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton voted from an address where he no longer resided in at least six consecutive elections, including the March 2024 Republican primary, according to reporting by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. State Rep. James Talarico, Paxton’s Democratic opponent in the U.S. Senate race to replace retiring Sen. John Cornyn, has seized…
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Massachusetts Real Estate Developer Gets Four Years for $18 Million Loan Fraud
Louis R. Masaschi, 59, of Longmeadow, was sentenced to four years in federal prison on July 22, 2026, for orchestrating a commercial loan fraud conspiracy that defrauded lenders of more than $18 million over a four-year period. U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni imposed the sentence in federal court in Springfield, along with a…
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Federal Worker Falsified VA Disability Claims to Secure $478,000 Mortgage
Schleider Aristhyl, 30, of Warwick, Rhode Island, a military veteran and Department of Homeland Security employee, was arrested and charged with wire fraud and submitting false statements in a mortgage application after allegedly creating two fraudulent Veterans Affairs documents to obtain a $478,000 VA-backed mortgage in October 2024. According to charging documents, Aristhyl submitted falsified…
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California Man Charged in $52.7 Million COVID Tax Credit Fraud Scheme
Christopher Slater, a California man, was arrested and charged Monday with orchestrating a multi-state conspiracy to defraud the federal government of more than $52.7 million through false claims of pandemic relief tax credits, U.S. Attorney Brian D. Miller announced. Mark Keagel, 52, of York, Pennsylvania, was charged as a co-conspirator in the scheme. According to…
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Federal Agents Launch Investigation Into Immigration Scam Network That Cost Victims $94 Million
The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a sophisticated fraud operation targeting immigrants in legal proceedings, following reporting that complaints about such scams doubled during President Donald Trump’s second administration. Homeland Security Investigations, the DHS subagency that tracks international crimes including human trafficking, has begun requesting specific case details and seeking identifying information on payment…
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Florida Teacher Banned for Sexual Abuse Opens Private School, Collects Taxpayer Dollars With State’s Approval
A Florida teacher stripped of her license a decade ago for sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy opened a private school last year and began collecting public money, with state regulators taking no action to stop her. Her name and case details remain publicly available online, yet Florida’s education authorities did not block her from operating…
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Expert Witness Reverses Position on Flawed Rape Prosecution After Being Hired by Defendants
Bennett Gershman, a Pace University law professor hired as a paid expert by Syracuse and Onondaga County, filed a December 2025 report asserting that prosecutors “did not engage in misconduct” in the wrongful rape conviction of Anthony Broadwater. Just over a year earlier, Gershman told a reporter that the same prosecutors had “manufactured a case”…
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Financial Manager Stole Over $500K Using Unauthorized Credit Cards in Company Name
Tamara Ricceri-Wolf, 60, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on July 8, 2026, to 18 months in federal prison for wire fraud, having stolen more than $538,000 from an Omaha company where she worked as Financial Manager. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher ordered her to pay $635,935.05 in restitution and serve three years of…
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Purdue Bankruptcy Plan Shuts Out Tens of Thousands of Opioid Victims Despite $7.4B Settlement
A federal judge-approved bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma will exclude tens of thousands of opioid victims from compensation, even though nearly 140,000 people filed claims seeking damages from the company’s criminal marketing of OxyContin. The $7.4 billion settlement, which includes $870 million earmarked for individual victims, will provide payments to fewer than half of those…
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