A former medical director at two Florida insurance companies alleged the companies inflated fees by making patients appear sicker than they were or exaggerating the treatment that was provided.
It's tax season, which also means it's tax scam season. People around the country are getting phone calls from criminals pretending to be tax collectors. Here is one of them.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former executive of a California biotech company faces federal conspiracy and fraud charges alleging that his actions misled investors.
Elder abuse is underestimated, researchers say, and includes physical, emotional and sexual abuse as well as financial exploitation. Doctors, lawyers or banks are often the first to spot problems.
Companies are clamoring for coverage against losses due to hackers. But insurance firms are being selective: The risk involved isn't well understood — and the crimes themselves are evolving rapidly.
When you answer your phone and there's no one on the other end, it could in fact be a computer that's gathering information about you and your bank account. Here's how.
The department says the new expert will play a big role in determining whether businesses targeted for prosecution have engaged in systemic misconduct or whether the criminal activity is limited.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Las Vegas investment company chief has pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering charges in a case alleging he and two other men bilked thousands of Japanese investors out of some $1.5 billion.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Eleven people have been indicted in Nevada in what authorities say was a scheme to make fake credit cards and collect cash advances at Las Vegas casinos.
The federal government overpaid for nearly half of the patients of a Medicare Advantage plan, a Medicare audit found. At issue is whether insurers "upcode" diagnoses to reap bigger payments.
If a billion-dollar company was in Las Vegas, you'd probably expect to have heard about it, wouldn't you? Even Caesars is only worth $20-some billion,...
Anti-corruption activists are pushing countries such as the United States to require more disclosure from the owners of shell companies. Nevada has some of the country's weakest disclosure and liability laws.
Much of the Attorney General's term has been dominated by efforts to untangle mortgage fraud by brokers, real estate professionals and the banks themselves. The first of what has been promised as a series of victories by state attorneys general was the settlement in the robo-signing case.
State and federal officials across the country have announced a $26 billion settlement to charges that major banks acted carelessly and fraudulently in foreclosing on millions of homeowners across the country. Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto had been reluctant to join but did include Nevada at the very end of marathon negotiations.
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto recently joined Arizona in suing the Bank of America to change its foreclosure practices. So what difference can the lawsuit make in the foreclosure crisis.
