JURIST

APRIL 27, 2022

After reviewing extensive studies on voter fraud, The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law reported that “ fraud is very rare, voter imper­son­a­tion is virtu­ally nonex­ist­ent, and many instances of the alleged fraud are, in fact, mistakes by voters or admin­is­trat­ors.”

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APRIL 10, 2024

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) stated on Wednesday that Hong Kong authorities detained its representative Aleksandra Bielakowska for six hours and later deported her from the territory. Lai has been detained since December 2020 and is serving a sentence of almost six years for fraud charges.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Kenya’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) arrested four individuals on Thursday, including the former Cabinet Secretary and Permanent Secretary for Tourism, Najib Balala and Leah Gwiyo, for alleged procurement fraud in the construction of a hospitality college in the southern region of Coast. billion to KES 10.4

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JURIST

MARCH 21, 2024

Brazilian federal prosecutors have filed charges against Jair Renan Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, for crimes including money laundering, misrepresentation and the presentation of fraudulent documents, Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported Wednesday. Eventos e Mídia. The revenue statement in question amounted to 4.6M

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JURIST

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens , the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DDPA), found on Friday that the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration violated core principles of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) for several years through processing personal data in a fraud management system. The predecessor of the FSV has existed since 2001.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 6, 2022

“Justices skeptical of bankruptcy protection for ‘unwitting’ beneficiaries of fraud”: Dietrich Knauth of Reuters has this report. Alex Wolf and James Nani of Bloomberg Law have a report headlined “ Wiping Away Debts From Others’ Fraud Weighed by Supreme Court.” ” The U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 23, 2022

Russian state-owned news agency TASS Tuesday reported that a court found dissident Alexey Navalny guilty of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced him to nine years in prison. According to Guardian reporter Theo Merz , Navalny “clashed” with the judge and accused the government of falsifying testimony against him.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2024

As a result, Chamisa alleged that the latest 2023 election was not legitimate due to fraud, corruption and authoritarian tactics on behalf of Mnangagwa and his party. In addition, Chamisa accused Mnangagwa and his party of intimidation and violence on Zimbabwean citizens during and after elections in order to influence the outcome.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Ukraine’s main security agency, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), published a statement on Saturday handing criminal charges to Ihor Kolomoisky related to money laundering and fraud in his oil and gas holdings. The Ukraine Prosecutor’s Office is supervising the pre-trial investigation, which is still on going.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Furthermore, the suspects are accused of tax fraud, firearms offenses and documentation fraud on top of trafficking charges. Publico , a local news source, reported that many victims were recovered and remained silent and “afraid” during the operation.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In January, the SSU reported that it had discovered an embezzlement scheme involving current and former ministry officials and an arms company, Lviv Arsenal. SSU asserts that ministry heads colluded with Lviv Arsenal, leading to a fraudulent artillery sale using state funds.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Kazakhstan Internal Ministry’s public statement in December 2023 states that the authorities in Almaty City, East Kazakhstan and Almaty regions are pursuing charges against Smailova for large-scale fraud, violations of privacy and knowingly disseminating false information. Smailova is currently facing multiple criminal charges.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The US House Ethics Committee published Thursday a report that found “substantial evidence” that Representative George Santos (R-NY) violated federal criminal law. Central to the ISC report is Santos’ propensity for dishonesty and his tendency to misrepresent information.

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Customs & International Trade Law

APRIL 18, 2024

The law attempts to reward whistleblowers and disincentivize committing fraud and can be used to expose customs fraud. The FCA, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 – 3733 , is a federal statute enacted in 1863 in response to defense contractor fraud during the Civil War. Get Paid to Expose Fraud The FCA allows the U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 29, 2024

Head of INTERPOL Jürgen Stock expressed concerns over the expansion of organized Southeast Asian crime rings of human trafficking-based cyber fraud into a global human trafficking crisis. Victims are typically lured through fake job advertisements and are forced to commit telecommunications fraud in cyber scam centers afterward.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

” Ben Mbarek was previously detained last year on charges of conspiracy against state security charges The Tunisian lawyer stated that Ben Mbarek did not criticize the work of the ISIE, nor did he speak about election fraud, but only criticized the elections in a general manner. .” The hearing took place without his presence.

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JURIST

MAY 10, 2023

Federal prosecutors charged Santos, who was elected to the House of Representatives for New York’s Third Congressional District in November, with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 12, 2022

“Robin Vos fires Michael Gableman, ending a 2020 election review that’s cost taxpayers more than $1 million and produced no evidence of fraud”: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

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MARCH 17, 2024

“How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation; Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online”: Jim Rutenberg and Steven Lee Myers of The New York Times have this report. Naomi Nix, Cat Zakrzewski, and Ann E. ” And also at the “Lawfare” blog, Mary B.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Secret Service cases and data from the Labor Department and the Small Business Administration estimate that nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, reports the Associated Press. Most of that figure comes from unemployment fraud.

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2023

The Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) Monday released a report identifying international companies which are helping the Myanmar military junta ( Tatmadaw ) to commit atrocities by supplying them weapons it has used to repress the country’s population.

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JURIST

MAY 8, 2023

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Monday released a report condemning the Taliban’s use of corporal punishment and the death penalty in Afghanistan. ’ In a report released in July 2022 the UNAMA stated that between 14th-15th August, 17 individuals were executed in the province of Kandahar.On

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JURIST

OCTOBER 15, 2022

on Friday was convicted of fraud following his misrepresentations and lies regarding the company’s technology. In 2021, there was reportedly $770 million in losses from social media fraud. He stated it was “fraud, plain and simple, and this Office has no patience for it. Never has, never will. Let this case serve as a warning.”.

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JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2024

Between 1999 and 2015 hundreds of subpostmasters at the Post Office were prosecuted for allegedly engaging in fraud, false accounting and theft due to shortfalls at their branches. The move comes in response to growing public outrage following an ITV drama, “Mr. Bates vs The Post Office,” which brought attention to the scandal.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

A scammer, known memetically online for impersonating a doctor when he was a teenager as part of a fraud scheme in 2016 as “Dr. Love,” has been sentenced to over two years for another fraud scheme in Palm Beach County, Florida, on charges of grand theft and organized scheme to defraud.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Read the Petition ] The False Claims Act (FCA), originally enacted in 1863 to combat contractor fraud during the Civil War, imposes civil liability on anyone who “knowingly presents” a “fraudulent claim for payment” to the federal government. 3729 (a)(1)(A). 3729 (a)(1)(A). 31 U.S.C. §§ 3730(b)(4), (d)(2).

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LLRX

MARCH 2, 2024

Six highlights from this week : A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech; The Impact of Technology on the Workplace: 2024 Report; A government watchdog hacked a US federal agency to stress-test its cloud security; Using AI to fight fraud is paying off, Treasury says; and These Video Doorbells Have Terrible Security.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 17, 2021

People over 60 were the special targets of COVID-19-related Internet schemes and financial fraud in 2020, with 28 percent of the total fraud losses sustained by seniors, according to the FBI. These Internet fraud schemes reaped approximately $1 billion in losses purely from seniors in 2020, the FBI said in a report released Tuesday.

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AUGUST 21, 2022

“Appeals court temporarily blocks subpoena to Graham in Georgia election-fraud probe; At issue is whether the subpoena infringes on his legal protections as a member of the U.S. Senate”: Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico have this report on an order that the U.S. Senate” appeared first on How Appealing.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Shah originally pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in 2021, but reversed course and pleaded guilty to the wire fraud charges last summer. million, Julianne McShane reports for NBC News. million, Julianne McShane reports for NBC News.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of legislation on Tuesday to enable the Employment Development Department (EDD) better detect and prevent fraud, and protect unemployment benefits claimants from identify theft. The governor hopes these bills will better prepare the state to respond to future economic downturns.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 17, 2022

TJ Cox, a former congressman from California, has been arrested by the FBI and indicted on 28 charges including 15 counts of wire fraud and one count of campaign contribution fraud, the Washington Post reports. The charges also include 11 counts of money laundering and one count of financial institution fraud.

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JUNE 6, 2022

A new analysis by the Federal Trade Commission has found that Americans lost more than $1 billion to cryptocurrency scams since the start of last year, accounting for a fourth of all dollars lost to fraud using any payment method and taking in more than 46,000 people from the beginning of 2021 through March, reports the Washington Post.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

AP reported that the legal team representing the 78-year-old has attempted to meet with her to discuss the special appeals since January but were never allowed to do so. After an overwhelming election victory for NLD in 2020, the Myanmar military staged a coup and arrested Suu Kyi for alleged election fraud.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The chief financial officer at the now defunct Girardi Keese law firm embezzled at least $10 million from bank accounts owned by the firm for personal use, including monthly payments to an escort and renovations for his home in Los Angeles, Matt Hamilton and Harriet Ryan report for the Los Angeles Times.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Attorney for the District of Idaho Josh Hurwit has announced a new COVID-19 Fraud Task Force to address rampant fraud taking advantage of federal pandemic relief programs within the state.

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2023

Navalny is currently serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence for violating his probation in a controversial fraud case , and he will have to complete a nine-year sentence stemming from another fraud case before serving his latest one. I perfectly understand that, like many political prisoners, I am sitting on a life sentence.

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