California Hospice Billed Medicare $7.45 Million for 'Terminal' Patients. Its Five-Year Survival Rate Was 97 Percent.

When 97 percent of your terminal patients survive five years, you have not discovered a better treatment — you have published your fraud in the billing data.

Source: CBS News

Arcadia, California Mayor Eileen Wang Charged With Acting as an Illegal Agent of the Chinese Government. She Had Operated the Propaganda Website Under Her Own Name While Serving as an Elected American Official.

She ran a Chinese government propaganda site called U.S. News Center under her real name while serving as an elected American city mayor, which is the kind of operational security that writes its own federal indictment.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice

Former NFL Tight End Joel Rufus French Convicted of Nearly $200 Million in Medicare and VA Fraud — He Built Overseas Call Centers to Pressure Elderly Veterans Into Accepting Braces They Did Not Need

He constructed the full apparatus first — overseas telemarketers, sham telemedicine companies, durable medical equipment businesses — then billed $200 million through it, which is the kind of institutional commitment to a fraud that eventually produces sixteen years in federal prison.

Source: Military Times

Tokyo Police Arrested Six Executives of Global Investment Lab for Running an ¥87 Billion Pyramid Scheme. They Had Distributed Confidentiality Agreements to Every Investor. The Agreements Were Entered Into Evidence.

The confidentiality agreements they required of five hundred investors were not protection — they were a signed roster of every participant, documenting exactly who paid, how much, and when they were told to keep quiet about it.

Source: Meyka

Karnataka Man Worked 40 Years at the State Electricity Board Under a Stolen Identity. He Was Caught Only After He Retired, Collected His Gratuity, and the Man Whose Identity He Had Stolen Demanded a Share of the Pension.

Bommegowda stole M. Rachaiah's seventh-standard marks card in 1982, worked forty years as a government lineman under someone else's name, retired without incident, handed over his gratuity — and was finally undone when the man he'd robbed demanded a monthly cut of the pension.

Source: The Hans India

Florida Man Stole a Car With the Engine Running, Drove It to the Marion County Sheriff's Office, and Confessed Voluntarily

Erik Drake stole the vehicle to drive north to visit his mother; the most direct route, it turned out, passed through the front entrance of the sheriff's office.

Source: Swag 104.9

Ohio State's Investigation Into Its Outgoing President Found He Secured a $60,000 State Grant for His Girlfriend, Sought University Office Space and Staff for Her, and Expensed Her Hotel Upgrades and Flights. He Had Already Resigned.

Source: Ohio Capital Journal