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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ProPublica: A Florida man who was the subject of a 2019 investigation by ProPublica was indicted last month on federal charges that he defrauded clients of his ransomware data recovery firm.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ProPublica: A Florida man who was the subject of a 2019 investigation by ProPublica was indicted last month on federal charges that he defrauded clients of his ransomware data recovery firm.…

A week after ProPublica reported how organized crime is stealing food stamp benefits — aided by the government’s refusal to update benefit-card technology — the Department of Agriculture announced plans to adopt more secure cards with microchips.

Asking the federal government for public records didn’t always feel like a shell game. But bounced emails and broken portals seem like the new normal.

One of the biggest assholes in the Trump regime is Russell Vought — and that’s really saying something; it’s a fierce competition. He’s the guy who said in 2023 that he wanted to put federal worke

From Salon RSS Feed: A noncitizen says she was told she could vote. Then CBP detained her at the airport

From Salon.com: Babies are bleeding to death as parents reject vitamin shot given at birth

Con artists posing as ICE agents use WhatsApp, fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. As an asylum-seeker living in the U.S., Jasmir Urbina worried as she watched violence break out amid …

From Gizmodo: Con Artists Posing as Ice Agents Are Using WhatsApp to Bilk Vulnerable People Out of Their Savings

Journalists across the United States are fighting for contracts that address AI use: “We don’t want it to be done in our name, literally.”

From Salon.com: After years of waiting, many opioid victims will be shut out of Purdue settlement

Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages. State medical board faults doctors’ substandard care

ICE conceals the breadth of its detention network by limiting access, but recent immigration reporting shows that information can and will emerge if we keep looking.