Tragic Circumstances
Assisted living is a great option for people who need assistance with medical and personal care. Actual living spaces are designed to be like home and can include individual rooms, apartments or shared areas. The owner of an Anchorage, Alaska assisted living home business...
Hoverboarding to Prison
A dentist from Anchorage has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for defrauding Alaska’s Medicaid program. Seth Lookhart was investigated after a video of him went viral on the internet which showed him extracting a tooth from an unconscious patient while riding a...
15,000 Trips to Nowhere
Taking a trip to nowhere is popular within the cruise industry. The idea is to set sail on a luxury cruise liner for several days of stress free sailing and relaxing with no particular destination in mind. An Arizona man, who owned a medical...
The Fruits of Fraud
The term ''fruits of labor'' refers to the results of hard work that yields benefits. For example, farmers toil long hours by tilling the soil, planting seeds, watering their plants and preventing pestilence from overtaking their crops. Their hard work and effort usually pays...
Documenting Fraudsters
Document fraud is a serious threat to national security. Criminals who manufacture or sell fake identity documents such as driver's licenses, birth certificates, Social Security cards, passports or green cards, can create vulnerabilities where terrorists, criminals and undocumented immigrants can enter and remain in...
What Is In a Name?
'What is in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet,'' as quoted from the famous Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet. The play romanticized the idea of Romeo rejecting his family name for Juliet ...
The College Experience
Remember college? For most, this is the time of life to figure out who you are as a person, make new friends, experience new things and most importantly to be subject to identity and tax refund fraud. Okay, everyone doesn't become subject...
Fraud in the Last Frontier
An Anchorage woman was convicted of food stamp fraud and was ordered to pay $8,510 in restitution to the state. According to the Anchorage Daily News, the woman also failed to disclose that her child's biological father was living with her and contributing to...
Families of the Deceased Suffer Tax Refund Fraud Pain
The loss of a family member is difficult enough to deal with when it happens, and it impacts affected family members forever. But how do you react when you learn that a deceased family member has been claimed as part of someone's tax refund...
Slapping Labels on Fraud
Sometimes labels are necessary. We use them to categorize and to organize things or people. For example, we can slap a label on a folder for bills that have been paid so they are not confused with those which have not been...