Treasurer Briner: Avoid financial scam scares this season
Fraud is becoming much more sophisticated. Artificial intelligence can produce convincing emails, realistic photographs and even voices that sound like someone you know.
North Carolina’s second-highest court will decide in the months ahead whether Prisha Mosley can move forward with her lawsuit against doctors and counselors who took part in her female-to-male gender transition.
Former Charlotte City Council member Tiawana Brown is appealing her 10-month prison sentence for COVID-related fraud.
When Tiawana Brown still held Charlotte’s District 3 seat, a grand jury charged her and her daughters with lying on COVID loan applications. The three women also must repay $137,280 to the government.
Federal agencies crack down on CDL training and testing, including a North Carolina school that allegedly certified drivers who failed to meet federal standards.
Attorney General Jeff Jackson, State Auditor Dave Boliek, US Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Ellis Boyle, US Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina Dan Bishop, and representatives from Western District US Attorney Russ Ferguson's office joined other state officials across the Southeast on Thursday for the launch of the Southeast Fraud Enforcement Federal-State Partnership.
The Durham company was built by members of a prominent Democratic donor family that has given at least $886,526 to North Carolina Democrats.
A former executive director of the Dunn Housing Authority faces two years in federal prison and must repay $238,448 to the federal government after sentencing this week on a charge of conspiring to commit federal program theft.
Two new audits from the state auditor found a 15-year pattern of delayed first-round unemployment benefit payments and more than $47 million in fraudulent benefit overpayments.
Washington’s deficits — running nearly $2 trillion a year, about a quarter of federal spending — are too large to close by eliminating fraudulent claims, improper payments to households or businesses, and malfeasance by government contractors. But we still should.
NC House backs bill regulating crypto ATMs with licensing, fraud refunds, fee caps, and limits on daily kiosk transactions.
State Auditor Dave Boliek says North Carolina is taking a “really close look” at soaring autism therapy Medicaid spending amid fraud concerns.