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A TIJ analysis of federal payment data and the text of Public Law 119-21 finds a statutory cliff at 13.34 percent that lets seven high-error jurisdictions defer $1.72 billion while…
A Houston laboratory's $36.4 million settlement over kickbacks and unnecessary genetic tests is the latest entry in a Medicare fraud pattern that DOJ and HHS-OIG records show keeps repeating even…
Federal fraud settlements against Medicare Advantage insurers are setting records, but the government's own auditors say upcoding drains far more than enforcers claw back.
Medicare spending on skin substitutes rose from $256 million in 2019 to more than $10 billion in 2024. A pricing rule that paid close to whatever sellers charged built the…
Federal records show Medicare spending on skin substitutes climbed nearly fortyfold to over $10 billion as a pricing formula let relabeled placental tissue be billed at up to $1,450 per…
A USPS inspector general audit estimates counterfeit stamps cost the Postal Service more than $349 million in fiscal 2026, capping a year of escalating fraud warnings.
The FTC's first three enforcement actions under Trump's Made in America executive order extract $867,743 in consumer redress from companies that marketed Chinese-manufactured flags and components as "100% Made in…
Court records show Aspiration co-founder Joseph Sanberg ran a five-year fraud worth at least $248 million while his celebrity-backed climate fintech booked sham revenue and a 250-to-1 fake cash balance.
BlackRock-Temasek's Decarbonization Partners, Qatar Investment Authority, and $206 million in DOE grants funded a Kentucky cathode plant that never produced at commercial scale. The Trump administration cancelled the next $110…
A Clark Nuber forensic audit released April 22, 2026, found the King County Regional Homelessness Authority ran a negative cash balance of $44.7 million, could not reconcile $8 million in…