FraudCast
Welcome to the Pondera FraudCast, where we post information on fraud trends, lessons learned from client engagements, and observations from our investigators in the field. We hope you’ll check back often to stay current with our efforts to combat fraud, waste, and abuse in large government programs.
Hands Down Fraud
By Jon Coss, Vice President, Risk, Fraud, and Compliance
April 9, 2020Here’s a recent case of potential fraud that should surprise, well, no one. A California used car dealer has been…
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Coronavirus Security
By Adi K, ISO
March 13, 2020Friends of Pondera, with “coronavirus” the number one searched subject matter in the world, it is not a surprise that…
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Coronavirus Fraud
By Jon Coss, CEO
March 12, 2020With the old expression “Never let a crisis go to waste” ringing through my head, I am not at all…
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Monopolizing Monopoly
By Jon Coss, CEO
March 4, 2020When I was in high school, McDonald’s ran a promotion where they distributed paper Monopoly game pieces to customers who…
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Phish Eats Shark
By Jon Coss, CEO
February 28, 2020Sometimes the phish eats the shark. That is certainly the case for Barbara Corcoran, one of the celebrity investors on…
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Rampant Greed at Any Cost
By Jon Coss, CEO
February 19, 2020In a particularly disturbing drug fraud scheme, John Kapoor, the billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics, was sentenced last month to…
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Beauty Queen Fraudster
By Jon Coss, CEO
February 11, 2020A recent high-profile fraud case may help highlight a particularly disturbing form of fraud that we often write about on…
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Hoverboard Dentist Update
By Jon Coss, CEO
February 3, 2020Way back in October of 2017, I wrote a blogpost about an Anchorage dentist who was defrauding Medicaid by performing…
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2020, I mean, 20Fraud
By Jon Coss, CEO
January 29, 20202020, I mean, 20 Fraud The bad news – there’s a new fraud threat we all need to be aware…
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A $28,000 Case of the Sniffles
By Jon Coss, CEO
January 2, 2020Imagine going to the doctor because you just can’t shake that cold before the holidays and then receiving a bill…
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