People line up to enter CityMD, a health clinic offering testing for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the Upper West Side, on December 19, 2021, as the Omicron coronavirus variant spreads in Manhattan, New York City, USA, continues to spread. Andrew Kelly | Reuters WalgreensGovernment-backed CityMD will pay $12.04 million to resolve Covid fraud allegations brought…
A global malware network responsible for the theft of $5.9 billion in Covid relief funds and linked to other crimes such as child exploitation and bomb threats has been shut down, Justice Department officials announced Wednesday . The Justice Department arrested 35-year-old YunHe Wang, a Chinese citizen who was accused of creating the “botnet,” a…
The Justice Department on Wednesday announced charges against two brothers who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for allegedly stealing $25 million worth of cryptocurrencies in about 12 seconds. The Justice Department said the brothers – James Peraire-Bueno and Anton Peraire-Bueno – plotted the “first of its kind” crypto fraud involving the Ethereum blockchain…
Roger Ver, a Bitcoin millionaire and evangelist, is one of the first early adopters of the so-called cryptocurrency. (Photo by Danny Lee/South China Morning Post via Getty Images) South China Morning Post | South China Morning Post | Getty Images The Justice Department filed tax fraud charges this week against a prolific Bitcoin investor named…
