Shelli Marthaler’s job is to connect people on Medicaid with the healthcare they need.
Marthaler said that she has worked for Kandiyohi County for 26 years because her clients are often her neighbors. She feels good when they can access services like having a nurse come to their home, or finding the right counselor to address their mental health.
But during the first week of June, these clients told Marthaler they were scared. In a move to show the Trump administration they are taking action on fraud, the Minnesota Department of Human Services disenrolled an astonishing 3,411 healthcare providers from the ability to bill Medicaid.
can still get reimbursed for treating Medicaid patients.
Related: State says that Medicaid providers can get funding as they appeal disenrollment
As of June 24, there are 2,600 providers who have appealed, according to DHS, with 2,100 of these healthcare…
THE HASHFLARE “CLOUD MINING” PONZI SCHEME (GLOBAL/ESTONIA)
Date: February 13, 2025 (Guilty Pleas) Perpetrators: Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turogin
Case Description: This $577 million cryptocurrency fraud remains one of the largest digital asset scams in history, with major legal developments concluding in 2025. Potapenko and Turogin operated “Hashflare,” which they marketed as a massive cryptocurrency mining operation. Hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide purchased “mining contracts,” believing they were renting hash power to mine Bitcoin. In reality, the duo was running a sophisticated Ponzi scheme.
They created fake customer dashboards that showed “real-time” mining profits, but the money being paid out was simply the capital of newer investors. They laundered the proceeds through shell companies to purchase luxury real estate and a fleet of high-end vehicles. After a massive international investigation involving the FBI and Estonian authorities, the pair agreed to forfeit over $400 million in assets. This case underscores the “Cyber-enabled Fraud” warning issued by the FATF in early 2026: as technology evolves, the scale of fraud moves from local millions to global billions in the blink of an eye.
Link to Original: ACFE – High Profile Fraud of 2025