Fraud

A college degree isn't worth what it was in the 1980s. Why would the wealthy pay huge sums to get their children into college?

The federal agency that processes immigration applications is planning to open a Los Angeles-based office to identify Americans accused of "cheating" their way to citizenship.

Satellite images could suddenly make it a lot riskier to perpetrate these crimes.

The chief counsel for ICE's Seattle field office faces charges of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud.

Riot police get ready to disperse people demonstrating to denounce the results of the local elections, on February 6th, 2018, in Conakry, Guinea.

The breach reportedly includes Social Security numbers, names, birth dates, home addresses, and driver's license numbers.

David Bernhardt, President Trump's pick for the No. 2 position at the Department of the Interior, has some explaining to do.

The government unleashed Big Data to shut down Medicare fraud. Why isn't it working?

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

Introducing the January/February 2016 print issue of Pacific Standard.

The tools and methods have evolved over the decades, but the crime remains the same.

Another group that's especially vulnerable to scams and fraud is that made up of those who are desperate to adopt a child.

Illinois leads the country in group psychotherapy sessions in Medicare, and some top billers aren’t mental health specialists. The state’s Medicaid program has cracked down, but federal officials have not.

Two secretaries in a doctor’s office have pleaded guilty and a pharmacy owner faces charges in a scam that Medicare allowed to thrive for more than two years.

Lotteries (both real and fake) are rife with fraudsters who’ve figured out how to game the system and manipulate the gullible.

Using too many trials to design investment algorithms renders them statistically useless and potentially devastating.

Tax evasion persists, and tax return scams involving identity theft are on the rise.

A new report finds that more than half of insurance companies in Medicare’s drug program haven’t reported fraud cases to the government. The findings echo an earlier investigation that found fraud flourishing in the program.

As Medicare considers banning doctors who pose a “threat to the health or safety” of patients, it plans to consider an array of factors.

The structure of the military means that when people high up in the chain of command aren’t held responsible for the crimes they commit, that message will quickly ripple down the ranks.

Action comes after ProPublica uses the government’s own data to find patterns of dangerous prescribing, waste, and potential fraud in Medicare Part D.

The federal government does little to stop schemers from stealing from Medicare Part D, the program that provides prescription drugs to more than 36 million seniors and disabled people.

And how Bitcoin is learning from the mistakes of those that came before it so it can avoid the same fate.

The long list of medications on Joyce Heap’s insurance forms didn’t look right. It turns out they weren’t—and Medicare didn’t seem to care.