Waste, Fraud & Abuse
Feds use pandemic fraud charges to bust Step or Die street gang
They got Al Capone on tax evasion, and now federal prosecutors have managed to bust up a Louisiana street gang by charging two dozen people with pandemic benefit fraud.
Michigan charges 16 fake Trump electors with election law, forgery felonies
Michigan’s attorney general is charging 16 Republicans with multiple felonies after they are alleged to have submitted false certificates stating they were the state’s presidential electors despite Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in 2020.
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Justice Department to challenge length of prison sentences for Rhodes and other Oath Keepers
The Justice Department is appealing the 18-year-prison sentence handed down for Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, as well as other far-right extremists' punishments that were shorter than what prosecutors had sought, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
Former Mozambique finance minister is extradited to the U.S. to face trial over $2 billion scandal
A former Mozambique finance minister who has been held in prison in South Africa for nearly five years was extradited Wednesday to the United States to face a fraud and corruption trial over a $2 billion scandal involving fraudulent government loans.
FBI Director Wray defends search of Mar-a-Lago: 'Not a raid'
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray pushed back Wednesday against Republican critics who condemned the FBI's search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence to recover classified government documents.
Russian spies in Ukraine suspected of duping FBI to censor Americans on social media
The FBI was enlisted by the Security Service of Ukraine soon after the Russian invasion to demand social media platforms take down posts and block accounts such as those belonging to American journalists, according to House Judiciary Committee investigators.
Deputies who reported a Texas sheriff to public corruption investigators say nothing was done
A Texas sheriff who's been the subject of years of complaints about dysfunction and corruption was repeatedly reported to state and federal law enforcement by his own deputies - yet an outside investigation never gained momentum, according to interviews and records reviewed by The Associated Press.
Woman serving life term for mom's murder sentenced to 7 more years for COVID-19 unemployment fraud
A California woman locked up for life for the first-degree murder of her mother in 2001 was sentenced Monday to seven more years for her role in a COVID-19 unemployment benefits fraud scheme.
Judge unmasks gang of Biden staffers who stifled speech on social media
A federal judge who excoriated the Biden administration for pressuring social media platforms to censor Americans' speech shined a light on a group of obscure but powerful White House staffers who leaned on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other sites to remove posts and ban users whose content they opposed.
Trump asks judge to delay classified documents trial
Former President Trump's legal team asked the federal judge in Florida overseeing his classified documents case to postpone the trial without setting a new date, saying there is "no reason" for it to take place in December.
Trump lawyers ask judge to postpone trial without setting a date in classified documents case
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are asking a judge to postpone his criminal trial without setting a new date as he stands accused of illegally hoarding classifed documents at his Florida estate.
