Maryland Announces $ 500 Million Coronavirus Unemployment Fraud

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced Wednesday that state officials had uncovered a massive fraudulent scheme involving 47,500 counterfeit unemployment insurance claims, totaling more than $ 501 million. The scheme involved identity theft from previous security breaches and suggested that any personal information submitted in legitimate claims had been compromised in …

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Newly discovered bacteria can eat metal for food

Metal mouth A newly discovered bacterium is able to gobble up metallic manganese and use it as a source of nutrition. Jared Leadbetter, an environmental microbiologist at Caltech, found the bacteria almost by chance after leaving the glassware to soak in the tap water after conducting manganese experiments. The next …

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