(Anchorage, Alaska) – Tuesday, Alaska Attorney General Stephen Cox announced lawsuits against six crowdfunding platforms—GoFundMe, Pay Pal Inc, Charity Navigator, Just Giving, Pledge to and Network for Good—for creating donation pages for charities without their knowledge or consent. The lawsuits allege that these companies used publicly available data to generate fundraising pages for over […]
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is seeking additional information. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage woman was arrested Wednesday in Anchorage after a federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment last month alleging she executed a wire and bank fraud scheme where she stole victims’ personal identifying information to use in fraudulently obtaining funds from […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Monday, Jeffrey S. Hiett, 54, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of Medical Assistance Fraud and one count of Reckless Endangerment for conduct that occurred between August 2021 and March 2023. Hiett’s company, 3707 Oregon, LLC, also pleaded guilty to one felony count of Medical Assistance Fraud for conduct that occurred between […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage doctor and her husband pleaded guilty Tuesday to executing a $12.5 million health care fraud scheme and evading over $4 million in taxes on the profits of their decades-long scheme. According to court documents, Dr. Claribel Tan, 61, and her husband, Daniel Tan, 70, operated a rheumatology medical clinic in […]
