Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful
"A federal watchdog reported Thursday that Georgia’s program requiring able-bodied adults to document low-paying work to get Medicaid has spent much more on administrative costs than on providing health care...The GAO analysis shows that from fiscal year 2021 through the second quarter of 2025, Georgia reported $54.2 million in administrative spending and $26.2 million on health care."
"I've reviewed internal docs showing that the #FBI is sending 125 agents & 15 analysts on TDY to Memphis to support the Trump-ordered surge against violent crime there.These are ppl who would’ve been working more trad FBI missions, incl counter terrorism, counter intel, complex fraud, cyber crime & child exploitation.
It’s going to cost taxpayers$Ms to send them & put them up in hotels."
-K Dilanian
+TN #NationalGuard...
#Waste #Fraud #Abuse
#NationalSecurity
#USPol https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/us/trump-memphis-national-guard-threat-hnk
Online banking fraud in Japan surged by about 73% in the first half of 2025 compared to last year, according to a new police report. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/19/japan/crime-legal/phishing-scams/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fraud #cybersecurity #brokerages
Scammers are using on ChatGPT to "do their thing" — craft convincing messages designed to trick people into parting with their money. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/19/asia-pacific/crime-legal/chatgpt-thailand-scammers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #thailand #ai #chatgpt #fraud
"#DOL staffers who took DOGE’s “Fork in the Road” offer earlier this year have returned to the agency as full-time workers after collecting their full pay & benefits for months w/o performing their job duties.
The reinstatements demonstrate the whiplash fed workers face when Trump’s directives to shrink the govt collide with the demands of an agency’s day-to-day work.
#Waste #Fraud #Abuse #Musk #DOGE #Protest #TrumpRegime #USPol https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/labor-department-brings-back-staff-who-took-fork-offer-to-quit
It •is• pretty amazing the amount of fraud alleged around here in Hinterlandia.
As always, I blame the fraudsters.
If you've ever interacted with the state judicial branch or with state agencies, dismayed no one takes your word for anything, and had to jump through a million hoops to justify every little thing in your paperwork, well, this is why.
Dante's reserved the lowest level for these folks.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/09/18/feds-charge-8-tied-to-massive-minnesota-housing-fraud
Mexican cartels’ new money laundering businesses: Cryptocurrencies, concerts and timeshares
“Zionist lawfare operation facing collapse?”
by Kit Klarenberg in Al Mayadeen English
“Klarenberg exposes how #UK #Lawyers #For #Israel’s fraudulent #lawfare #campaign is unraveling, with #fabricated #signatures, #legal #complaints, and mounting #investigations threatening the ‘Israel’-linked group’s survival”
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/zionist-lawfare-operation-facing-collapse
#UKLawyersForIsrael #fraud
@palestine
"On September 7th, notorious Zionist lobby group UK Lawyers For Israel published a joint letter...blamed Hamas for Tel Aviv’s mass slaughter of Palestinians since October 7th"
The letter includes around 500 signatories of various scholars + a professor of electrical engineering (???) without their consent. The people involved replied angrily while denouncing the letter’s content in the strongest possible terms
More on the UKLFI 
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/zionist-lawfare-operation-facing-collapse
A new fraud tactic has emerged in Osaka Prefecture, in which scammers send elderly people smartphones before swindling them using the devices. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/12/japan/crime-legal/scam-smartphone-elderly/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #phones #japanesepolice #elderly #osaka #socialmedia #fraud
Toyota Motor has introduced a five-stage internal qualification system for maintaining quality at vehicle certification test sites and developing related human resources. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/10/companies/toyota-qualification-fraud/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mlit #toyota #carmakers #fraud
WTF
#Michigan #judge tosses charges against '#FakeElectors'
A Michigan judge has dismissed #criminal charges against 15 people who signed false certificates saying #Trump won the state's electoral votes in 2020. Trump lost the state & the presidency to Joe #Biden.
It's the latest loss in prosecutors' efforts to hold accountable people associated with Trump's attempt to overturn his election loss.
#law #SeditiousConspiracy #fraud #BigLie
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/09/nx-s1-5535584/michigan-fake-electors-trump-charges-dropped
A special squad of Tokyo prosecutors have questioned former Nippon Ishin no Kai lawmaker Akira Ishii on a voluntary basis over an alleged fraud case involving secretarial pay, informed sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/09/japan/crime-legal/prosecutors-question-ex-japan-lawmaker-ishii/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #nipponishinnokai #fraud
These Israeli settler gangs are criminal lunatics, they can destroy Palestinian property, kill animals, set cars on fire - because the state allows these crimes. Ergo, the state is a criminal entity too.
So anyone who defends the illegal annexation state of Israel is part of the problem by #law - the #UN included.
You can't protect the law by sparing the perpetrators, which member states do.
#palestine needs #justice, the two-State-solution is a #fraud.
The article had a provocative title: "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero",
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/
TL;DR: There's some amount of friction in the #marketplace that prevents #fraud **and** prevents a large amount of non-fraud. Somehow understanding and tuning for that is what can make or break a #business.
I just read #wiki to catch up on #Kickstarter, and there's definitely an optimal amount of how much of a #business platform you can move to the #blockchain, and it's exactly zero.
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I'm catching up on @pluralistic 's newsletter and there was a line in https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before that reminded me of an article I read recently:
> So #Kickstarter jettisoned the escrow step, handing campaign creators the full payout and then trusting them not to run off with the dough. The platform understood that this would allow a certain amount of #fraud and failure, but deemed it worthwhile, especially after they took countermeasures to minimize backer losses, such as...
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Getting strong #fraud #AI #phishing vibes on this. Screenshot from my #SocialBC account.
Recommendation for a #Fediblock.
Susan #Collins #senate #maine Advanced #Trump Tax Bill After Receiving $2 Million from Private Equity #billionaire.
Outright blatant #bribery with the #moderate #gop #republican #crook #liar #fraud
https://www.commondreams.org/news/collins-private-equity-donation-tax-bill
#Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of #Fraud. Records Show 3 of His #Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two such mortgages in quick succession.
#law #felon47
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cabinet-mortgage-fraud
