State auditors referred an investigation of questionable credit card use by a State Department of Assessments and Taxation worker to the criminal division of the attorney general's office…The Office of Legislative Audits report released last week said its investigation was sparked by a tip to its fraud, waste and abuse hotline. Source: MarylandMatters.com 

The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said the couple fraudulently reported a burglary and theft at their Maryland home. Source: NBCNEWS.com

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The Maryland Attorney General’s office announced the guilty plea of a  43-year old Baltimore man for violations of Maryland environmental laws regarding the issuance of fake lead paint certificates. The investigation began following a referral from the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE)  February 2024, after an MDE review found that man, a Maryland-certified Lead Paint Inspector and principal operator of Green Environmental, LLC, was using an X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) device that was not on the list of MDE-approved machines. The review also discovered that he did not possess the required radioactive material license (RAM) to operate the XRF. Source: Maryland Attorney General

Source: Maryland Attorney General

A scheme uncovered by Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming thanks to a tip on the OIG hotline. Source: baltimorebrew.com

Source: Maryland Attorney General

Source: US Attorney, District of Maryland

A 56-year-old Berlin, Maryland, resident, who was a former office manager and bookkeeper for an Ocean City-based home builder, admitted to embezzling at least $1,790,000 from her former employer. She forged a business owner’s signature on business checks at least 500 times. She then concealed the embezzlement from her employer and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by making false entries into the business’ books and records. Source: US Attorney District of Maryland

Maryland’s largest union, now representing 50,000 public employees including in Baltimore, made a series of unusual payments in 2022 to an apparently fictitious Washington law firm. Source: Baltimore Brew

He misappropriated over $4 Million of investor funds to make speculative options trades, and pay back earlier investors, and finance day-to-day personal expenses, according to the US Attorney in New York. The defendant, 46, of Elkridge, Maryland, is charged with one count of securities fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; one count of investment adviser fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison; and one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Source: US Attorney, Southern District of New York