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Whiskey Fraud Strikes Britain and Ireland

Reporter USApril 25, 2025

There are some 48,000 barrels of Scotch whisky quietly aging in Martin Armstrong’s warehouses in southwestern Scotland. Last year, 17 of them became a problem. Mr. Armstrong normally deals with companies that buy hundreds of barrels at a time from distilleries, then pay him to store them as they age. In July, he started getting […]

The Cybercriminals Who Organized a 3 Million Crypto Heist

The Cybercriminals Who Organized a $243 Million Crypto Heist

Reporter USApril 24, 2025

A quiet honor student who had recently graduated from Immaculate High School in Danbury, Veer Chetal was about to begin studying at Rutgers University in New Jersey. In 2022, he completed a “future lawyers” program, and a story that year on the Immaculate website showed a photo of a smiling kid with glasses wearing a […]

Some Online Scam Victims Can Now Seek Tax Relief on Firmer Ground

Reporter USApril 15, 2025

Victims of sophisticated online scams are often dealt a double whammy. Not only is their money forever gone, but these stolen sums often generate giant tax bills when the funds are emptied from taxable retirement accounts. Many of these victims are often left wondering what sort of recourse they might have. Tax regulators recently provided […]

Social Security Rolls Back Restrictions on Filing for Benefits by Phone

Reporter USApril 12, 2025

The Social Security Administration said on Tuesday that people seeking retirement or survivor benefits could continue to file applications over the phone, reversing a much criticized change that was expected to force tens of thousands of Americans to visit offices in person each week. The agency has been in a state of tumult ever since […]

Medicare Bleeds Billions on Pricey Bandages, and Doctors Get a Cut

Reporter USApril 11, 2025

Companies can set such high prices because of a quirk in Medicare pricing rules, industry experts said. For the first six months of a new bandage product’s life, Medicare will set the reimbursement rate at whatever price a company chooses. After that, the agency adjusts the reimbursement to reflect the actual price paid by doctors […]

What to Know About Trump’s Order to Phase Out Paper Checks

Reporter USApril 5, 2025

Paper checks issued for tax refunds, Social Security payments and other government benefits have been dwindling and will soon be eliminated, potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of Americans. President Trump signed an executive order on March 25 directing the federal government to stop issuing paper checks as of Sept. 30. Instead, government agencies must make […]

How Will Charlie Javice Teach Pilates in an Ankle Monitor?

Reporter USApril 4, 2025

A striking and headline-making fraud case resulted in a conviction last Friday, when Charlie Javice was found guilty in federal court of conning JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million. The bank has also sued Ms. Javice, a 32-year-old entrepreneur who once made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, for elaborately falsifying her student-finance start-up’s customer […]

Investigating a Sprawling Money Laundering Network

Reporter USMarch 31, 2025

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. For months, Selam Gebrekidan, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, would stare at a maze of handwritten diagrams, drawings and charts on a wall inside her Hong Kong apartment. She was trying to […]

Trump Commutes Ozy Media Founder’s Sentence Just Before His Surrender

Reporter USMarch 28, 2025

President Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of Carlos Watson, a co-founder of the now-defunct digital media company Ozy Media, on the day he was set to surrender to prison, three people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Watson was sentenced in December to almost 10 years in prison for trying to defraud investors and […]

Charlie Javice Found Guilty of Defrauding JPMorgan in 5 Million Acquisition

Charlie Javice Found Guilty of Defrauding JPMorgan in $175 Million Acquisition

Reporter USMarch 28, 2025

Charlie Javice, who made big headlines in 2023 when JPMorgan Chase accused her of faking her startup’s customer list, was found guilty in federal court Friday of fraud. . She now faces the possibility of decades in prison . The bank has its own civil lawsuit on standby, as it attempts to claw back her […]

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Whiskey Fraud Strikes Britain and Ireland

The Cybercriminals Who Organized a $243 Million Crypto Heist

Some Online Scam Victims Can Now Seek Tax Relief on Firmer Ground

Medicare Bleeds Billions on Pricey Bandages, and Doctors Get a Cut

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Investigating a Sprawling Money Laundering Network

Trump Commutes Ozy Media Founder’s Sentence Just Before His Surrender

Charlie Javice Found Guilty of Defrauding JPMorgan in $175 Million Acquisition

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