A federal grand jury has indicted a Milwaukee spinal surgeon on 13 counts of federal health care fraud.
A proposed rule to drastically increase whistleblower rewards paid for information leading to successful Medicare fraud actions to as high as nearly $10 million was proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services this week.
The lawyer for a Portage County man accused of helping to conceal his mother’s death for decades and collecting her Social Security payments has entered not-guilty pleas on his client’s behalf.
A former Oshkosh woman has been convicted of two felonies for election fraud and falsification of nomination papers.
A former associate to Gov. Scott Walker will face a jury trial next month on charges that he embezzled about $42,000 from veterans’ groups.
A final pre-trial hearing has been postponed for Kevin D. Kavanaugh, a former associate to Gov. Scott Walker who’s accused of embezzling about $42,000 from veteran groups.
A judge has ordered a new trial after the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay challenged a civil fraud verdict.
A northeastern Wisconsin judge will start sorting out this week whether a career con man who prided himself on outsmarting authorities set up a diploma mill from behind bars.
A federal grand jury has indicted the president of a Wausau insurance company on 24 counts of fraud.
A jury has been selected to hear a fraud trial against the Green Bay Catholic Diocese.
Jury selection is expected to begin Monday in a fraud trial against the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, after an Outagamie County judge denied the diocese’s latest attempt to have the case dismissed.
A federal judge has sentenced a former Beloit official to prison for using city funds to purchase personal items.
A woman who built a mansion and bought a Jaguar while collecting roughly $3 million in taxpayer subsidies from her Milwaukee child care centers has pleaded guilty to fraud, theft and conspiracy.
As tax season ends, tax fraud is in the air.
The state attorney general argued that Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, illegally marketed the drug by telling doctors it was safer and more effective than competitor drugs, downplayed its risks and marketed it for unapproved uses including treatment for the elderly and children.
A Brookfield attorney who pleaded guilty to felony fraud charges received the maximum sentence allowable Wednesday.
Resident aliens committed a deportable offense by filing a false tax return that resulted in the federal government sustaining a loss in revenue in excess of $10,000, the U.S Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-3 decision.
A Brookfield attorney who pled guilty to felony fraud charges on Wednesday could face a stricter sentence structure than normal because of missed court appearances that resulted in his arrest and incarceration.
A Southern California woman who challenged the legal status-quo by filing a small-claims action against Honda won her lawsuit Wednesday when a judge ruled that the automaker misled her about the potential fuel economy of her hybrid car.
Wisconsin law governing fraudulent misrepresentations can fairly be described as charitable. It’s too bad the law doesn’t apply to so-called charities, which are some of the worst fraudsters operating in this state.
Executives have the means to commit and cover up the largest frauds.
A Brookfield attorney facing felony fraud charges wants to surrender his law license in Wisconsin.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Wisconsin woman is accused of stealing a narcotic from the Twin Cities hospital where she worked as a nurse. Forty-five-year-old Della Rae Thalin of New Richmond, Wis., was charged Monday in federal court. Thalin is charged with one count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. Prosecutors allege that between Feb. [...]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Three employees of the Milwaukee County Department of Health Services and two others have been charged with defrauding Wisconsin’s FoodShare program out of more than $350,000. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the sheriff’s office announced the three are suspected of issuing fraudulent Quest cards, used by program participants to buy food. The [...]
By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are accusing brokerage firm Stifel Nicolaus & Co. of civil fraud in its sales of risky complex investments to five Wisconsin school districts that lost all of the $200 million they invested. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the lawsuit Wednesday against St. Louis-based [...]
The class action on behalf of shareholders of Koss Corp. may proceed, at least in part.
Securities
Fraud
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin could save at least $266 million a year by clamping down on fraud in public assistance programs, tweaking overtime policies and implementing efficiency ideas state agencies have been developing, according to a report the governor’s waste and fraud commission released Tuesday. The panel found a [...]
Contracts
Fraud; economic losses
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Four people from Minnesota and Wisconsin are charged in what authorities are calling a “sophisticated mortgage fraud scheme” involving fake documents — including phony divorce decrees and the forged signature of a Minnesota judge. The case involves the sales of foreclosed properties in the Twin Cities area and tens of millions of [...]
