Financial fraud includes activities like embezzlement, insider trading, and accounting fraud, inflicts substantial harm on society. It distorts the transparency and efficiency of financial markets, leading investors and regulators to make decisions based on false information, which can destabilize entire economic systems. The direct victims of financial fraud—ranging from individual investors to large corporations—can face devastating financial losses, potentially wiping out life savings or crippling business operations.
Corporate Accountability | Insurance Industry | Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals The Fine Print Trap Motorists Mutual Insurance collected Mesco Manufacturing’s premiums for years, then tried to use four words buried in the policy to escape a court-ordered, expert-verified, $1,020,490.32…
TL;DR Centene Corporation’s “Ambetter” health insurance plan listed thousands of doctors as available in-network who were, according to the lawsuit, never actually available — a practice known as a “ghost network.” Plaintiffs allege that roughly 49% of providers listed in…
Investigative Report: Insurance Fraud The App That Stole Your Insurance National General Insurance built a digital trap: a broken application that blocked disclosures, then used those missing disclosures to cancel policies the moment a crash made them expensive. Source Filed:…
TL;DR A Florida software company called Open International sold Fort Collins, Colorado a billing system by telling the city 89.7% of required features were ready to go — while an internal document from that same month showed only 59.4% were…
TL;DR A businessman named Matt Martorello used a Native American tribe as a legal shield to run illegal high-interest payday loans targeting everyday working-class Americans, a scheme courts called a “Rent-A-Tribe” operation. Martorello kept “almost all the profits” from the…
Corporate Accountability / Pharmacy Benefits / Healthcare Profiteering Eighth Circuit 2025 PBM Manipulation Independent Pharmacies Fighting Back How OptumRx Allegedly Rigged the Game Against Your Local Pharmacy Reported by EvilCorporations.com | Filed: July 16, 2025 | Source: Eighth Circuit Court…
Healthcare Fraud / Corporate Crimes / Federal Courts How Arrayit Built a $77 Million Medical Fraud on Fake Science Source: U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit — United States v. Mark Schena, Filed July 11, 2025 TL;DR Mark Schena ran…
TL;DR Chase Bank allowed a woman named Jazzmen Brumfield to drain $47,383.47 (enough to cover a year’s worth of groceries for four families) from a court-controlled “blocked account” containing a dead man’s estate funds — and handed it all to…
TL;DR Joey New York, Inc., a publicly traded beauty brand, took out $241,600 ($241,600 which is roughly what a median American worker earns over nearly five years) in loans with financial terms a federal appeals court ruled may have been…
Investigations / Financial Fraud / Pyramid Schemes They Took $1.24 Billion From People Who Couldn’t Afford to Lose It The FTC and State of Nevada have sued IM Mastery Academy, its founders, and its top earners for running a pyramid…