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What started with a Walmart driver’s tip about dozens of packages piling up at a Peoria home led investigators to a $1.2 million fraud scheme stretching from the Valley to Southeast Asia. The Walmart driver told police on Aug. 22 that he’d delivered 30 to 50 packages under different names to the same home in just a couple of days. Days later, a victim reported their Walmart account had been hacked and used to buy items. Those two reports sparked a two-month investigation that ended Thursday morning with six arrests, according to newly released court documents. Investigators say the group...

Here’s one war that should’ve started years ago: Team Trump’s drive to stamp out fraud is still ramping up, but is already saving the public billions. This week alone, federal, state and local authorities conducted a string of fresh raids and made arrests, including in New York and California, as part of a nationwide crackdown on Medicaid fraud. Homeland Security also launched a massive operation to snare illegal immigrants who fraudulently stole $40 million in food stamps, bringing the total in food-stamp fraud ID’d so far to $641 million. The feds have also destroyed more than 2,200 illegal merchant SNAP...

The majority of the 40 defendants federally prosecuted for their roles in Oregon SNAP fraud schemes are illegal immigrants, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon confirmed to The Post Millennial. The schemes involved numerous organized interstate crime rings that have defrauded the federal government of more than $3 million since at least 2024. The fraudsters stole EBT card data, mainly through skimming devices, to procure SNAP-eligible goods and sell them on the black market for personal gain, according to court documents. At least 11 individuals have been indicted since last month, Oregon US Attorney Scott Bradford announced...

This video reports on a major marriage fraud scheme uncovered in Massachusetts, where six individuals were arrested and charged by the US Department of Justice (0:00 - 0:51). Key Details of the Investigation: Mastermind: Jennifer Gonzalez is accused of orchestrating sham marriages for over a decade to help illegal aliens fraudulently obtain green cards and US citizenship (0:18 - 0:31). Financial Scope: Authorities state she charged between $38,000 and $40,000 per marriage, netting an estimated $6 million over ten years (0:32 - 0:51). She allegedly used these funds to purchase property and businesses in the Dominican Republic (0:52 - 1:40)....

A Trump administration fraud task force has uncovered nearly $42 million in food stamp funds meant for needy families that were instead stolen to support criminal activities as well as the lavish lifestyle of a rapper with multiple arrests — including for repeatedly exposing himself to pee off his apartment balcony. Vice President JD Vance and members of the Departments of Justice and Agriculture held a press conference in Cincinnati Wednesday highlighting the cases involving more than 40 defendants operating schemes that bilked the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and related programs. “Two-hundred twenty thousand Americans could’ve eaten for the entire...

Big news on the El-Sayed front. James O’Keefe, the spymaster of conservatism, has revealed that Abdul Muhammed is actually – and illegally – being financed from overseas. One of O’Keefe’s Project Veritas operatives penetrated El-Sayed’s campaign, hitting it off with Abdoul Beckwith, the campaign’s “regional field organizer.” Beckwith proceeded to give O’Keefe’s guy a complete rundown on the internals of the sheik’s campaign, including the illegal contributions coming in from foreign sources. “You know, he has people from overseas that donate to him… no, it is not allowed.” Quite so. Federal election law is very clear on this. Statute 52...

On October 20th, Trump invited Nick Shirley to the White House to be present when he announced the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program. ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has launched a nationwide operation targeting illegal immigrants accused of fraudulently obtaining benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), resulting in multiple arrests, Fox News has learned. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed the operation to Fox News, announcing several arrests of illegal immigrants accused of fraudulently receiving SNAP benefits. "Illegal aliens who have no right to be here in the first place are the last people who should be using SNAP benefits and other forms of welfare," Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement. "These programs are for...

The feds raided at least two Brooklyn adult day cares Tuesday as part of a sweeping probe into more than 100 sites suspected of Medicaid fraud involving everything from money laundering to kickbacks, officials said. The crackdown is part of a monthslong “massive effort to combat fraud and abuse” involving taxpayer dollars and some of the state’s most vulnerable people, Gov. Kathy Hochul said. “We are targeting providers we believe who engaged in illegal activity ranging from money laundering to kickbacks to improper billing and other fraudulent activities,” Hochul said at an unrelated press conference. The probe has been investigating...

President Donald Trump is putting cash behind his crackdown on taxpayer fraud, preparing to offer Americans rewards for tips that help bring fraudsters to justice. Trump and Vice President JD Vance will unveil a $25 million Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program (WHIP) during a Tuesday afternoon announcement with the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud in the Oval Office, a White House official told Fox News Digital. WHIP will offer eligible tipsters up to $30,000 if their information leads to a successful fraud conviction or a significant federal enforcement action, the official said. Trump also plans to present independent journalist Nick Shirley...

Federal agents and law enforcement partners are engaging in operations across Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn Tuesday, the FBI said. Federal law enforcement sources tell CBS News New York the operations are related to alleged healthcare fraud. Video from one storefront at Eighth Avenue near 41st Street in Brooklyn shows at least eight people wearing law enforcement apparel. Some of the footage shows agents wearing jackets that say "HIS," which is the Department of Homeland Security Investigations.

The husband of the Rhode Island Democratic Party Chair Liz Beretta-Perik has been indicted in the alleged theft of $20 million from a now-closed community college through educational grants, according to Ohio state officials. The Ohio Auditor of State's Office announced that Michael Perik, along with two other people, is accused of participating in a coordinated criminal scheme that diverted Pell grants, other federal aid and state subsidies through fraudulent reimbursements and illegal incentive payments. Officials allege the scheme also contributed to the closure of Eastern Gateway Community College. Perik faces a dozen charges, including engaging in a pattern of...

The Treasury Department identified approximately $270 million potentially linked to fraudulent activity involving federal student aid programs. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has referred the findings to federal investigators for further review, Fox News reported. In July, FinCEN issued alerts to financial institutions warning about possible fraud schemes involving federal student aid refunds. Schools and payment contractors regularly issue student aid refunds electronically. Criminals may move stolen aid through money mules, shell companies and fraudulent bank accounts, the alert explained. Many of the schemes involve fraudulent enrollments — called "ghost student" schemes — in which criminals use stolen personal...

California funneled nearly $369 million in federal aid intended for victims of its deadliest wildfire year to low-income housing developers — without requiring them to house a single wildfire survivor, a California Post investigation found. The staggering sum was awarded to developers while thousands of Californians struggled to rebuild their lives after the devastating 2018 fires, which killed 103 people and damaged or destroyed more than 24,000 structures. Among them is motivational speaker and comedian, Mickey Schechter, 62, who lost his Cornell home and $60,000 in plumbing tools when the Woolsey Fire tore through the Santa Monica Mountains, destroying 37...

Federal agents collared suspects in a slew of voter fraud cases Monday morning, chasing targets across California drawn from a list of more than 20,000 suspected noncitizens in the state who allegedly registered to vote in next month’s midterm election. Under the effort dubbed “Operation Protect the Vote,” law enforcement authorities sought more than two-dozen foreign nationals charged with fraudulently registering to vote in US elections, in which most of them allegedly cast illegal ballots. Homeland Security Investigations swooped on the Commerce home of Alexander Muñoz around 6 a.m. in one of the arrests. The agents pounded on the front...

Border czar Tom Homan said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., could be denaturalized and deported if investigators find that she committed immigration fraud, repeating his assertion that no one is above the law after her home was raided and cellphone seized. “Of course, if you lie during the naturalization process, there is a process to denaturalize somebody. We’ve done it before… And certainly, if the evidence points that way, that could happen,” Homan told “The Big Weekend Show” on Saturday. Omar will “be held to the same standards you and I are held [to]. If she violated the law, then she’ll...

Tulare County voters are currently part of a closely watched race for District 22 between Randy Villegas and David Valadao. VISALIA, Calif. -- Nearly 7,800 Tulare County voters received duplicate vote-by-mail ballots after a vendor error during the ballot replacement process, according to county election officials. The Tulare County Registrar of Voters became aware of the issue Tuesday. In total, 7,791 voters received duplicate ballots out of more than 227,000 registered voters in the county. All of the duplicate ballots were sent to residents in the city of Tulare, which has more than 34,000 registered voters. Tulare resident Mario Garcia...

EXCLUSIVE: The highest-ranking House lawmaker from Rep. Ilhan Omar's home state is calling for the embattled progressive to be jailed and deported if it is found that she or her father lied on federal paperwork to get her U.S. citizenship. Omar, D-Minn., is under federal investigation over allegations she or her father lied about her birth year on immigration paperwork to obtain her citizenship when her family fled Somalia in the late 1990s. She and other Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., have denounced the probe as political persecution of one of President Donald Trump's detractors weeks before...

The Justice Department under the Biden administration opened an investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, in 2024 to scrutinize her finances, campaign spending and interactions with a foreign citizen, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The inquiry, initiated by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington and the department’s public integrity unit in June of that year, appears to have stalled for lack of evidence, according to one of the people who requested anonymity to discuss internal department matters. The investigation appeared to be thrust into the public spotlight on Monday, when President Trump blindsided department officials...

Thieves swiped voters’ mail-in ballots from a post office in the Bay Area, sparking fears of election fraud after another theft of ballots last week. The San Mateo County Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder’s Office said in a Thursday press release that it was notified that the election forms were recently stolen from a US Postal Service Office in Daly City, including mail-in ballots from San Mateo County voters. The county, located just south of San Francisco, and the US Postal Service are actively investigating the theft. It’s unclear how many ballots were stolen, the county said. The county’s election division encouraged voters...