U.S. Diplomatic Security Service

Why would highly paid state employees apply for emergency food stamp benefits when it would appear they would not qualify? The reason, veteran state employees said, might be the rules of the game. The Department of Social Services workers who...

Insisting that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is rushing to judgment, an attorney is asking the state to declare a moratorium on all disciplinary hearings for state employees suspected of fraudulently receiving food stamp benefits after Tropical Storm Irene. Rich...

Despite complaints that state workers falsified forms for other state workers, Gov. Dannel Malloy declined to place any blame Wednesday on his administration in the ongoing food stamp fraud controversy. A growing number of state employees is stepping...

Saying that “many’’ state employees may be involved in food stamp fraud, the governor’s legal counsel told all department heads Monday that they must cooperate with state investigators, as well as state and federal prosecutors....

An atttorney for state employees is calling for several federal investigations into Connecticut's controversial emergency food stamp program following Tropical Storm Irene. Rich Rochlin, who represents state employees who are suspected of fraud, is...

Saying Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is rushing to judgment, an attorney is asking the state to declare a moratorium on all disciplinary hearings on the potential firings of state employees who received food stamp benefits following Tropical Storm Irene. Rich...

A 13-year state police trooper who earned more than $124,000 last year is among the state employees — including three other troopers — under investigation for allegedly filing a fraudulent food stamp application following Tropical Storm Irene....

In Dundalk, the need for foster homes far outstrips the abilities of neighborhood families who can open their doors to children in crisis. Baltimore County's Department of Social Services has launched an effort to recruit foster parents in its eastern...

Elementos de las oficinas de San Diego y Los Angeles del Servicio de Seguridad Diplomática (DSS) del Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos capturaron a 12 personas en el Condado de Imperial como presuntos responsables del delito de fraude a...

By CHELCEY ADAMI, Staff Writer Authorities arrested a dozen people in Calexico on Tuesday and Wednesday for passport and visa fraud in a joint operation led by the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service. According to a press...

Did you know in Connecticut, some of the money use from marriage licenses fees goes towards helping victims of domestic violence? Or at least that is the way it is supposed to be according for advocates for the victims. "Where's the money?" said Erika...

For the past five months, the Baltimore Department of Social Services has been regularly housing children overnight at a downtown office building - allowing them to sleep upright in hard plastic chairs or on thin mattresses on the floor. The practice...