Fraud

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.

• By Kate Wheeling

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

• By Sophie Yeo

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

• By Kate Wheeling

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

• By Pacific Standard Staff

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

• By Jack Denton

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

• By Jimmy Tobias

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

• By Joe Eaton

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

• By Pacific Standard Staff

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

• By Nicholas Jackson

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

• By Lauren Kirchner

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

• By Lauren Kirchner

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.

• By Charles Ornstein

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.

• By Charles Ornstein

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

• By Lauren Kirchner

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

• By Ryan Jacobs

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

• By Lauren Kirchner

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.

• By Charles Ornstein

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

• By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein

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.

• By Lauren Kirchner

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

• By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein

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.

• By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein

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

• By Kyle Chayka

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.

• By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein

Preying on people’s very best impulses for the very worst reasons.

• By Lauren Kirchner