A Kansas City man pled guilty Tuesday to bank fraud involving a scheme to alter and forge stolen U.S. Treasury checks.

The defendants allegedly used stolen identities to open bank accounts and cash U.S. Treasury checks at more than 10 financial institutions in New York and Pennsylvania.

The fraud has the imprint of past scandals like the fodder scam. But instead of paper trails, it unfolded within the digital governance infrastructure itself ...

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