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Category Archives: Fraud
Blog: Floyd Mayweather Jr. Sues Jonah Rechnitz Over Alleged $175 Million Fraud
Daniel Mael writes: Floyd Mayweather Jr. has filed a sweeping lawsuit against his former investment manager and real estate adviser, Jonah Rechnitz, alleging a multi-year fraudulent scheme that siphoned no less than $175 million from his business empire. The complaint, … Continue reading
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The Definitive Book on Jewish Affinity Networks in Los Angeles
My experience of Jewish life since 1994 is that I have seen about five times as much kindness and greatness as fraud. The accomplishments and fraud cases that I envision a potential book examines are both products of a system … Continue reading
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The Definitive Book on Jewish Affinity Networks in America With Balanced Descriptions of Successes and Failures and Comparisons with other Affinity Networks
An honest treatment of Jewish affinity networks has to set out the success before the failure registers in its proper proportion. The networks have made American Jewish communal life the most successful immigrant integration stories in modern history. The fraud … Continue reading
Great Political Players Are Conmen
I’m hearing conversations about how Steve Bannon, the man who ran Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign is, shock, horror, gasp, a con man. Of course he is! So is Donald Trump and so was Barack Obama. And so are the great … Continue reading
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Decoding The Scam Economy
Tom Owens writes: Much has been in the news of late regarding fake daycares, fake autism therapy centers, and fake hospices. The scale of the fraud is almost unbelievable, on the order of tens of billions. Since none of these … Continue reading
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Trump Admin vs Medical Fraud Rings
Steve Sailer says: Both Nigerian and Somali immigrants are notorious for embezzling funds from trusting Americans. But they go about it in rather different ways. Minnesota Somalis prefer to minimize the number of non-Somalis allowed in on the action… If, … Continue reading
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The Explosion Of Autism & ADHD Diagnoses Can Be Partly Accounted For By The Opportunities For Fraud
I wonder how much the explosion of autism and adhd diagnoses is in the furtherance of fraud? I know people who had their kids diagnosed with ADHD or autism so they could get government largess. First. Diagnostic criteria widened. Schools … Continue reading
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I Want The System To Reward Good Behavior & Punish Bad Behavior
Matthew Continetti writes in the WSJ: The numbers out of Minnesota are staggering: Three separate plots to bilk welfare programs. Fifty-nine federal convictions. More than $1 billion stolen from taxpayers. Of 86 people charged so far, all but eight are … Continue reading
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How To Avoid Getting Conned
When I moved to Los Angeles in 1994 and pursued work in acting, I was taken for about $10,000 by various cons that appealed to my vanity. At the time I was handing over my money (and I was living … Continue reading
How Benefits Fraud Scam Spread So Widely In Orthodox Town
Similar scams are going on in many Orthodox communities. There’s no connection, in my experience, between Jewish observance and honesty. In much of the world, the word “Jew” is synonymous with dishonesty in business. Judaism is a system of dual … Continue reading