Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, with the assistance of the Orlando Police Department, today arrested two individuals for participating in a scheme to defraud the Medicaid program using teenagers’ personal identity information. Wendy Leiba of Longwood, 53, and Bobby Lyons of Winter Garden, 50, allegedly assisted Orlando-based companies to fraudulently bill Medicaid…
Category: ID Theft
IRS Employees Arrested for Fraudulent Tax Returns
Two long-time IRS employees were arrested yesterday at the IRS facility in Fresno as they came to work. On April 14, 2015, a 38-count indictment was brought against Della Ornelas, 48, and Randall Ruff, 52, both of Fresno, charging them with aiding others in the preparation of false tax returns, and making their own fraudulent tax…
Data stolen from Baltimore City employees, city announces
There’s a lot we don’t know about this one yet, and it’s not clear to me whether this incident will fall into the phishing for w-2 list, but Tom Prudente reports: Someone or a group has stolen personal information from an unknown number of Baltimore City employees and filed fraudulent tax returns, the city announced…
Another Greenshades client reports tax filing problems
Add Lower Platte North Natural Resource District to the list of Greenshades clients whose employees are have been alerted to attempted identity theft involving tax refund fraud. According to Wahoo Newspaper, 15 of 18 NRD employees had been told by the IRS that an attempt to file their taxes had been made from a suspicious source. Although…
MS: Madison resident arrested for identity theft and Medicaid fraud
Brenda Faye Mason, 50, of Madison, has been arrested and faces charges for Medicaid fraud and identity theft, announced Attorney General Jim Hood today. Mason turned herself in Tuesday to the Madison County Sheriff’s Office following the indictment by a Madison County Grand Jury on multiple counts of Medicaid Fraud and one count of identity…
FL: Employee of Home Health Care Company Pleads Guilty in Identity Theft Fraud Scheme Involving a Patient’s Personal Identifying Information
I just received this press release from the IRS, Criminal Investigation: An employee of a home health care company in Broward County pled guilty for her participation in an identity theft fraud scheme involving a patient’s personal identifying information. Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special…