In early 2025, Oregon state investigators uncovered a widespread disaster relief fraud scheme in which multiple individuals and shell companies filed for emergency assistance tied to a series of winter storms that never affected their reported properties. The Oregon Department of Justice, working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), found that applicants submitted falsified […]
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