Fraud Awareness Week 2021

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Across
  1. 4. The percentage cut paid to Robert Carl Stokes for filing fraudulent crop insurance claims on behalf of tobacco growers. Stokes was the ringleader of one of the largest crop insurance scam in US history
  2. 5. This Michigan farmer committed fraud to obtain a $68 million loan from Wells Fargo. Of the $23 million of restitution he was ordered to pay, $6 million goes to this USDA agency
  3. 8. Pilgrim’s Pride was ordered to pay a $107 million fine for price fixing and bid rigging related to this kind of chicken product
  4. 9. Violators of the False Claims Act are liable for paying more than double damages
  5. 11. In the suburbs of this city a family fabricated dozens of framing companies and fraudulently received more than $7 million in federal pandemic emergency loans
Down
  1. 1. This Boeing-owned drone maker was ordered to pay $25 million to the federal government because they charged the federal government for new components but provided cheaper used/refurbished components
  2. 2. Two New Jersey men were charged with fraudulently labeling beef as this USDA grade
  3. 3. When an individual files a lawsuit on behalf of the US government
  4. 4. The number of years USDA investigators spent on a case involving $160 million of fraudulent crop insurance claims. One instance of fraud involved throwing store-bought ice onto tomato plants to make it seem like they suffered hail damage
  5. 6. Sometimes these people from insurance companies are complicit in crop insurance fraud
  6. 7. This crop can remove phosphorus from the soil and was used by Roger Wilson, of Kentucky, to make fraudulent crop insurance claims
  7. 10. A Missouri man sold more than $140 million of corn and soybeans and lied about them meeting the requirements for this USDA label