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Indictments issued in US District Court for Theft of Government Benefits. On July 31, 2019, a Fitchburg woman was indicted in the US District Court in Boston on three counts of theft of public funds and two counts of making false statements. The woman entered a plea of not guilty. The indictment alleges the woman fraudulently received $71,462 in Social Security benefits, $6,444 in MassHealth benefits, and $13,505 in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits by falsely informing the Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) and the Social Security Administration about the mem...

(MENAFN - Caribbean News Global) BALTIMORE, USA – A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging three men on the federal charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to allegedly sell purported COVID-19 vaccines. The criminal complaint was filed on February 9, 2021, and was unsealed today upon the defendants' arrests. Charged in the criminal complaint are: Olakitan Oluwalade ('Olaki'), age 22, of Windsor Mill, Maryland; Olaki's cousin, Odunayo Baba Oluwalade ('Baba'), age 25, of Windsor Mill; and Kelly Lamont Williams, age 22, of Owings Mills, Mary...

A man from Buford is one of six men indicted for fraudulently obtaining roughly $1.5 million in loans with the Paycheck Protection Program. Tabronx W. Smith, 43, of Buford was charged in an indictment filed in the Northern District of Georgia with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, false statements to a financial institution, and money laundering. He is charged along with Rodericque Thompson, 43, of Atlanta; Micah K. Baisden of Doraville; Travis C. Crosby, 31, of Wellford, South Carolina;  Keith A. Maloney, Jr., 33, of Port Wentworth, and Thomas D. Wilson, 30, of Atlanta. Five othe...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Over the last decade, observers have noted that states have begun to play a greater role as regulatory enforcers — a trend that increased with the federal regulatory rollback that began with the advent of the Trump administration. Within the last couple of years, localities, including counties, cities and towns, have joined the states in flexing their muscles as key players in areas of regulatory enforcement traditionally dominated by the federal government. By enacting their own statutory protections, performing their own investi...

New Bedford Pair Charged With Federal Unemployment Fraud A married man and woman from New Bedford were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Boston on fraud charges arising from their claims for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance funds. Tiffany Pacheco, 35, and Arthur Pacheco, 47, were each indicted on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Tiffany Pacheco also faces five counts of wire fraud and Arthur Pacheco two counts. The defendants until recently resided in New Bedford, according to a news release from the Office of U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling. The two were arrested in S...