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DOJ DOJ Criminal Division Source document ↗
DOJ Criminal Division United States Financial Crime ✓ 19 claims 07 Oct 2026

Florida lab VP convicted of billing Medicare over $15m in COVID-19 testing fraud

A federal jury has convicted the vice president of a Florida testing laboratory over a pandemic-era scheme that attached unnecessary blood tests to COVID-19 testing events at residence country clubs. The case shows how DOJ's new Fraud Division and the Health Care Fraud Strike Force are pursuing providers who exploited pandemic testing demand, and sets out the billing figures and charges the jury returned.

  • Jury convicted Joseph Rodriguez of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and six substantive counts of health care fraud.
  • Testing events at nine clubs over about four months involved almost 2,000 patients; Medicare billed over $15 million and paid over $500,000.
  • Rodriguez faces a maximum of 10 years per count, with sentencing scheduled for a later date in January 2027.
DOJ DOJ Criminal Division Source document ↗
DOJ Criminal Division United States Financial Crime ✓ 21 claims 08 Oct 2026

Minnesota woman convicted in $3.6M Medicaid housing services fraud

A federal jury has convicted a Minnesota provider of billing a now-defunct Medicaid housing program for services never delivered, including hours supposedly worked by staff in other countries. The case is the DOJ Fraud Division's first announced Minnesota conviction and illustrates the data-analysis techniques prosecutors now bring to health care fraud trials.

  • Jury convicted Sharmaine Meadows on three counts of health care fraud; she faces up to 10 years per count at a later sentencing.
  • The HSS Program paid her company over $3.6 million between 2020 and 2025 into accounts she exclusively controlled.
  • Evidence included billing for staff in Illinois and the Philippines, hospitalised beneficiaries, and days exceeding 20 billed hours.
CFPB CFPB Source document ↗
CFPB United States Conduct & Consumer ✓ 13 claims 14 Oct 2026

CFPB opens debanking probe of nine largest US banks after OCC report

The CFPB has picked up an OCC report naming the nine largest national banks and turned it into an enforcement lane. This segment covers who is named, which statutes the bureau will test them against, and how a politically framed consumer-protection action reshapes supervisory exposure for institutions above the $10 billion threshold.

  • The CFPB will investigate the nine OCC-named banks and others for compliance with ECOA, FCRA adverse-action rules and UDAAP.
  • The OCC report cited debanking of sectors including firearms, oil and gas, and tobacco, with excerpts from bank emails.
  • The initiative implements Executive Order 14331; the CFPB supervises banks above $10 billion in assets.
DOJ DOJ Criminal Division Source document ↗
DOJ Criminal Division United States Financial Crime ✓ 20 claims 13 Oct 2026

DOJ, NCA and tech firms remove 3.7 million scam accounts in West Africa disruption week

The Justice Department reported the results of a week-long international operation targeting scam centres in West Africa. For compliance leads at payments firms, exchanges and platforms, the notable feature is the roster of private-sector participants that voluntarily acted on their own networks, and the explicit call for more proactive industry disruption. This segment covers who took part, what was seized, and the obligations the model implies.

  • Industry partners reported removing more than 3.7 million accounts, Pages and Groups and sharing leads on over 30 suspected scam centres.
  • Authorities made 28 arrests — 19 in Ghana's Sasaabi suburb and nine in Nigeria — and identified at least $11 million in potentially freezable funds.
  • Ghana operation identified 117 trafficking victims pending repatriation to Nigeria and 89 scam victims with approximately $8.3 million in losses.
OCC OCC Bulletins Source document ↗
OCC Bulletins United States Prudential & Capital ✓ 19 claims 12 Oct 2026

OCC issues version 3.0 of Concentrations of Credit examiner handbook

The OCC has replaced version 2.0 of its Concentrations of Credit booklet with a reorganised version 3.0, used by examiners across all OCC-supervised banks. The threshold definition is unchanged, but the handling of securitizations, correlations and aggregate risk assessment is expanded. This short segment covers what moved, what the definition still is, and what examiners will be working from.

  • Version 3.0 replaces version 2.0 and rescinds OCC Bulletin 2020-90, which had transmitted the earlier version.
  • The concentration definition is unchanged: obligations exceeding 25 percent of tier 1 capital plus allowance for credit losses.
  • New content covers securitizations, the correlation-concentration relationship, and determining aggregate risk.
FED Federal Reserve Source document ↗
Federal Reserve United States Prudential & Capital ✓ 11 claims 12 Oct 2026

Fed extends comment period on Regulation O insider-lending overhaul to November 4

The Federal Reserve has given interested parties an extra month to comment on its proposal to modernize Regulation O, the rule governing loans banks make to their executives, directors and principal shareholders. This segment covers the mechanics of the extension and what it signals about the proposal's contested substance, which remains open for input until November 4.

  • The Federal Reserve extended the Regulation O comment period to November 4, 2026, from an original deadline of October 5.
  • The proposal modernizes the rule governing extensions of credit by banks to insiders: executives, directors and principal shareholders.
  • The Board said it granted the extension to allow interested parties more time to analyze the issues and prepare comments.
FED Federal Reserve Source document ↗
Federal Reserve United States Digital Assets ✓ 14 claims 12 Oct 2026

Fed opens comment on two GENIUS Act rules for Board-supervised stablecoin issuers

The Federal Reserve has put out two proposals building the framework for payment stablecoin issuers it supervises under the GENIUS Act. One covers reserve backing, capital, risk management and custody of backing assets; the other sets a tailored application, appeals and hearing process for banks seeking to issue. Comment runs 60 days from Federal Register publication. This segment covers what each proposal binds and where the pressure points sit.

  • First proposal requires full reserve backing with permissible assets, standardized capital for credit and operational risk, and custody rules for backing assets.
  • Second proposal sets a tailored application process for Board-supervised banks to issue stablecoins, with appeals, hearings and final determinations.
  • Comment period closes 60 days after publication in the Federal Register; Governor Barr issued a separate statement.
CFTC CFTC — Commodity Futures Trading Commission Source document ↗
CFTC — Commodity Futures Trading Commission United States Digital Assets ✓ 13 claims 12 Oct 2026

CFTC opens comment on crypto asset market framework under existing commodity authority

The CFTC has published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on how it would regulate retail crypto asset transactions under section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Commodity Exchange Act. This segment covers what the agency is asking, the new registration category it is floating, and the 60-day clock now running for anyone who wants to shape the eventual rules.

  • CFTC issued an ANPRM on retail crypto asset transactions under CEA section 2(c)(2)(D), published 5 October 2026.
  • It floats codifying a "crypto asset market" as a subcategory of designated contract market registration purpose-built for crypto transactions.
  • Comments are due within 60 days of Federal Register publication; the notice informs potential future rulemaking rather than proposing rules.
FED Federal Reserve Source document ↗
Federal Reserve United States Prudential & Capital ✓ 12 claims 12 Oct 2026

US bank agencies propose replacing third-party risk guidance with principles-based framework

The Fed, FDIC, OCC and NCUA jointly proposed new third-party risk management guidance that would replace current standards when finalized. The package includes a companion guide for Federal Reserve-supervised community banks and a statement on supervisory treatment of core service provider relationships. This segment covers what the proposal changes, what stays non-binding, and the comment timeline firms need to track.

  • Four agencies propose principles-based, non-binding third-party risk management guidance intended to replace existing guidance once finalized.
  • Comments are due 60 days after Federal Register publication; the Fed added a companion guide for its supervised community banks.
  • A separate joint statement addresses factors the agencies will consider on community banks' core service provider relationships.
CFPB CFPB Source document ↗
CFPB United States Governance & Accountability ✓ 11 claims 11 Oct 2026

Nine US financial regulators finalise joint data standards under 2022 transparency law

Nine federal financial regulators, from the SEC to the Fed and CFPB, have finalised the joint data standards mandated by the Financial Data Transparency Act of 2022. The rule fixes common identifiers and transmission formats so filings become interoperable across agencies. This segment covers what the rule binds and the practical reporting work it sets in motion for regulated firms.

  • Joint final rule adopts uniform technical standards for data reported to nine US financial regulators, as required by the Financial Data Transparency Act of 2022.
  • Standards establish common identifiers for entities, geographic locations, dates, and certain products and currencies.
  • A principles-based joint standard covers data transmission and schema and taxonomy formats to enable machine-readable submissions.