Former Marine Sentenced to Prison For Part in Bilking Millions from Health Plan

Morgan received more than $2.6 million in kickbacks for servicemembers whose prescriptions resulted in TRICARE reimbursements paid to the pharmacy, according to prosecutors. Read More

A Lamborghini, a mansion and more: How a Jupiter man spent health insurance fraud money

A one-time sober operator falsified insurance claims to a federal benefits program and spent the millions on a glamorous life, prosecutors say. Read More

Health insurers nearing too big to fail

Erin Davis/Axios Visuals Health insurance companies have swelled in both size and scope over the last decade, with the revenues of six for-profit parent companies making up nearly 30% of total U.S. Read More

‘Queen of the Con’ left trail of scam victims across US. Now ‘Irish heiress’ could face reckoning in UK

Dubbed “Queen of the Con,” Marianne Smyth posed as an heiress, an emissary for Satan, a witch and Jennifer Aniston’s best friend. Then she stole tens of thousands, authorities say. Read More

Brazilian police detain woman suspected of taking a dead man to withdraw bank loan

Video appears to show the woman at the counter of a Rio de Janeiro branch of Itau Bank, propping up the head of an elderly man in a wheelchair and trying to get his hand to clasp a pen. Read More

US births fell last year, marking an end to the late pandemic rebound, experts say

A little under 3.6 million babies were born in 2023, according to provisional statistics released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's about 76,000 fewer than the year ... Read More

Trump's historic hush-money trial gets underway; 1st day ends without any jurors picked

The first criminal trial of any former U.S. president began as Donald Trump vies to reclaim the White House and ended without a single juror being seated and more than a third dismissed. Read More