Mail theft and check fraud now cost Americans over $20 billion a year. Learn how checks are stolen, washed, and cashed—and ...

First, fraud in public benefits is real, and it is a bad thing. It undermines public trust and makes it harder to sustain ...

Minnesota fraud cases involving daycare centers and medical providers demonstrate how fraud serves as an entry point for ...

The year opened with President Trump declaring that "the fraud investigation of California has begun," a move that quickly ...

“The most damaging form of fraud in SNAP is fraud where the low-income recipients are the victims, not the perpetrators,” a senior analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities argues. USDA IT ...

Data from Happy Returns, a UPS-owned reverse logistics company, shows that nearly one in every 10 retail returns in the United States involves fraud. Retailers now lose an estimated $76.5 billion a ...

The massive scandal around welfare fraud in Minnesota became a big story the same way the character Mike Campbell in The Sun Also Rises describes going bankrupt: “gradually and then suddenly.” Federal ...

Fraud is one reason Republicans in Congress say they don't want to extend enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums. The Government Accountability Office recently issued a ...

For years, I’ve watched with dismay as my home state of Minnesota has repeatedly made national headlines, and for negative reasons. From the destructive riots after George Floyd’s murder in 2020 to ...

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) ended his political career on Monday, announcing that he would abandon his reelection campaign in light of the fraud scandals involving his state’s nutrition, healthcare, and ...

The federal prosecutor who formerly helmed the effort to root out wrongdoing in Minnesota welfare programs has called the state “the leader in fraud.” Officials are investigating more than a dozen ...