fraud

It's one of the most common ways to get ripped off, but also easy to avoid if you know what to look for. Next time you're gassing up your vehicle in Missouri, here are some signs you can look for that indicate a card skimmer is gonna try to rip you off.

A Missouri woman is accused of stealing a whole lot of money from state unemployment insurance funds in a crime that allegedly took place over several months back in 2020. This led to three felony charges being leveled against her.

A longtime treasurer for Antioch Baptist Church near Hannibal is sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for defrauding the church out of around $300,000.

Three Salem residents have pleaded guilty to felony Medicaid fraud for billing the health care program for personal care attendant services that were never provided.

Federal prosecutors discovered a Springfield woman indicted this week on suspicion of embezzling more than $288,000 from disabled veterans' benefits had died four days earlier.

A northeast Missouri man is accused in a scheme that authorities say defrauded more than a dozen cattle owners of $240,000.

A Missouri man who defrauded a federal program for disabled military veterans out of more than $7.4 million has been sentenced to prison.

Prosecutors say they're reviewing whether Kankakee County should revoke the pension of a former sheriff's deputy convicted of fraud.

A St. Louis-area chiropractor and the woman who did his billing have admitted in federal court that they defrauded the federal government and private insurance companies of more than $2.2 million.

A Missouri pastor sentenced to seven years in federal prison after admitting he bilked $3.3 million from at least 18 mostly elderly investors wants to rescind his guilty plea.