Fraud
The Great Grift: More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen, federal watchdog says By RICHARD LARDNER and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives, according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs that…
A Wyoming woman was one of 458 Americans indicted in 975 cases of people and businesses taking advantage of a national crisis to fraudulently obtain money for personal benefit. Three years after the enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (C.A.R.E.S.) Act, IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) has investigated 975 tax and money laundering…
Wyoming is one of several states participating in a class action lawsuit against the company that owns Fireball Whiskey, saying their dollar bottles are not what they seem. “Fireball Cinnamon” debuted in 2020. It is marketed as a malt beverage flavored to taste like whiskey – sales of malt beverages, like hard seltzers, are not…
A scam has reappeared in northwest Wyoming, where a caller poses as a Park County Sheriff’s employee and asks for money or gift cards to avoid arrest, using the Sheriff’s Office’s actual phone number. The Park County Sheriff’s Office took to Facebook to confirm their Communications Center has received several complaints about the same call…
A Gillette woman faces 35 years in prison and $750,000 in fines after multiple schemes to defraud investors and get fraudulent payments from the I.R.S. Alexa Kinney of Gillette, Wyoming, pled guilty on January 3 to wire fraud, using an unauthorized access device, and making false claims to the Internal Revenue Service before U.S. District…
Writing two extra letters can save you a lot of potential problems this year. You’ve probably heard “hindsight is 2020” enough in the past few days to make you sick, but The Park County Sheriff’s Department knows it can save you the downside of that silly saying. The Sheriff’s Department has an odd but important…
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