welfare fraud

Mændene der plyndrede Europa is a 2018 DRTV documentary about the Cum-Ex dividend tax fraud, in which an international network of bankers and lawyers stole billions from European treasuries.

The Big Conn is an Apple TV+ documentary series about Kentucky attorney Eric C. Conn, who orchestrated the largest Social Security disability fraud in U.S. history, cheating taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Eric C. Conn case is a Kentucky disability-benefits fraud (2004–2017) in which attorney Conn bribed a federal judge to approve thousands of fake Social Security claims.

The Strip Search Phone Call Scam was a US hoax-call series (1994–2004) in which a man posing as police directed fast-food managers to strip-search employees in over 70 incidents.

The Return to Nature Funeral Home case is a Colorado corpse-abuse scandal in which owners Jon and Carie Hallford stored about 190 decomposing bodies and gave families fake ashes.

A 2021 true crime book by Emil Herskind and Arne Hauge Jensen offering a rare look inside the Britta Nielsen case from the perspective of her defense team. It follows the case from her arrest in South Africa to her final conviction for defrauding Denmark's National Board of Social Services (Socialstyrelsen) of 117 million kroner.

Emil Ellesøe Ditzel's 2021 book examines the Britta Nielsen case, in which a Danish civil servant stole more than 117 million kroner from the country's most vulnerable citizens over the course of decades. The book traces how the fraud was carried out and what it revealed about failures within Denmark's welfare system.

Christian Gerhartsreiter was a German con artist who lived under more than twenty false identities across the United States for three decades, most notably as Clark Rockefeller, a purported member of the famous Rockefeller family. In 2013, he was convicted of murdering Jonathan Sohus in San Marino, California, in 1985 — a crime he had concealed for decades through his web of fabricated identities. Sohus's wife, Linda, disappeared the same night and has never been found.

A Danish podcast series examines the case of Britta Nielsen, a 65-year-old former employee of Denmark's National Board of Social Services who embezzled 117 million Danish kroner over 25 years. Released in February 2021, the podcast explores one of Denmark's most serious economic crimes—a stark contrast to the Nordic nation's reputation as the world's least corrupt country.

She stole 117 million kroner from Denmark's most vulnerable over 25 years. Behind Britta Nielsen's facade of loyalty lay a life of luxury and a shocking failure of institutional oversight.

Between 2013 and 2015, a British political consulting firm called Cambridge Analytica systematically harvested personal data from 87 million Facebook users without consent. When exposed in March 2018, the scandal triggered a global reckoning over tech platform accountability that continues today.

Judy Buenoano, known as Florida's Black Widow, was executed on March 30, 1998, for a calculated series of murders spanning decades. The 54-year-old had poisoned her first husband, her son, and a boyfriend with arsenic while collecting approximately $240,000 in life insurance—crimes that made her the first woman executed in Florida since 1848.

The Lucchese crime family's New Jersey faction has undergone a dramatic criminal evolution over five decades, shifting from armed conflict toward large-scale illegal gambling and racketeering that generated billions in illicit profits.