The Justice Department's elder fraud cases from July 2025 through June 2026 named 712 defendants accused of taking $4.84 billion from 711,353 victims, more than double the $2.36 billion in last year's report, according to the department's annual report to Congress released Wednesday. Nearly half of the cases involved schemes run from abroad.

New York's attorney general barred FC&A Publishing from running its "free no-risk preview" book mailers in the state and ordered refunds and a $23,500 penalty. The settlement's findings say the Georgia publisher sent more than 4 million mailers to New Yorkers from 2021 to 2024, often to seniors, and billed $49.68 for $36 books. FC&A neither admits nor denies the findings.