fraud
Posted May 15, 2022, 4:33 pm
Elaine S. Povich
/Stateline
Romance scammers ripped off about $1 billion from would-be U.S. lovers in 2021 - up from $600 million the year before - and attorneys general say they have little success at recovering money or criminally charging romance scammers.... Read more»
Posted May 2, 2022, 8:03 am
Jeremy Schwartz & Perla Trevizo/ProPublica
Controversy continues to surround the two physical legacies of former area resident Brian Kolfage’s We Build the Wall effort: the bollard fence on the shore of the Rio Grande and a half-mile stretch of fence outside of El Paso that remain at risk of falling.... Read more»
Posted Apr 28, 2022, 2:28 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Former Santa Cruz County Assessor Felipe Fuentes pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud after he accepted thousands of dollars in cash, as well as the use of a 17-acre ranch parcel, in exchange for manipulating the value of land-holdings in the county.... Read more»
Posted Apr 25, 2022, 3:04 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Brian Kolfage, a former Tucsonan and wounded Air Force veteran who led a failed effort to raise millions of dollars to build a privately funded wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud on Thursday. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 25, 2022, 2:29 pm
Josh Russell
/Courthouse News Service
A judge ordered former President Donald Trump to pay $10,000 per day for failing to comply with the New York attorney general’s records requests in connection with a state investigation of the Trump real estate empire.... Read more»
Posted Mar 10, 2022, 10:04 am
Daniel Jackson
/Courthouse News Service
One of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies appeared to be running on fumes Wednesday as Exxon Mobil attempted to shield itself under a law that protects people or organizations from being sued for making statements in the public interest. ... Read more»
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Posted Jan 26, 2022, 5:10 am
Cezary Podkul
/Center for Public Integrity
Cybertheft conjures images of high-tech missions, with sophisticated hackers penetrating layers of security systems to steal data - but lax security measures mean many breaches are the equivalent of grabbing jewels from an unlocked car parked in a high-crime neighborhood.... Read more»
Posted Jan 17, 2022, 8:34 am
Lydia DePillis & Derek Willis/ProPublica
More than a million government-approved Paycheck Protection Program loans ended up being canceled by the Small Business Administration, including some that would have gone to people who needed the loans and applied just as they were told. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 15, 2021, 6:18 pm
TucsonSentinel.com
More than 1,700 TEP customers have reported being targeted this year by scammers. The utility company has advice about how to deal with it.... Read more»
Posted Nov 11, 2021, 1:24 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
During the pandemic, fraudsters stole $4.4 billion in federal COVID CARES Act unemployment money from the Arizona Department of Economic Security, and experts say it is bound to happen again. ... Read more»
Posted Oct 1, 2021, 12:11 pm
Jeremy Schwartz
/ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
Hood County stands out because it offers a rare view into the distrust and political pressure facing elections administrators even in communities that Trump safely won, and also represents the escalation to replace independent administrators with more actively partisan election officials.... Read more»
Posted Sep 29, 2021, 7:41 am
Jetson Leder-Luis
/Boston University/The Conversation
The U.S. government may be on the verge of spending as much as US$4.5 trillion in what could be one of the biggest investments in infrastructure and the social safety net in decades – but some of the money will undoubtedly be lost to fraud.... Read more»
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Posted Sep 24, 2021, 4:43 am
Craig Silverman, Chris Morran & Maya Eliahou/ProPublica
Even though Facebook Marketplace is backed by the power of the social networking giant, buying and selling items through the service can still carry the same risks as making purchases on other peer-to-peer platforms or through the classified ads of the local newspaper.... Read more»
Posted Jun 15, 2021, 11:16 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
People who are falsely claiming to be county election officials are knocking on voters’ doors in Yavapai County and asking for information about their voting history, after the Department of Justice warned that plans to canvass voters in Maricopa County would likely constitute illegal voter intimidation.... Read more»
Posted Apr 9, 2021, 12:41 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
A document that conspiracy theorist attorney Sidney Powell posted on her website with various allegations against Dominion Voting Systems lists its author as Doug Logan, the man hired by Senate Republicans to lead the team that will audit the 2020 election in Maricopa County, including a thorough examination of that same company’s ballot tabulation machines.... Read more»
Posted Mar 3, 2021, 12:37 pm
Sarah Oven
/Cronkite News
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich told the Supreme Court Tuesday that voting laws already struck down are really no more than “common-sense and commonplace” voting protections. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has said the laws “have a discriminatory impact on American Indian, Hispanic and African American voters in Arizona”. The high court’s ruling in the case will affect enforcement of a section of the Voting Rights Act that prohibits race-based restrictions on voting.... Read more»