All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2017 // A Connecticut man who federal prosecutors say was the ringleader of an auto insurance scam involving as many as 50 staged car crashes is set to be sentenced. Mackenzy Noze filed court documents saying he should receive...
Oct 2 2017 // Trinity Industries Inc. won’t have to pay a $663 million judgment that was awarded in a whistleblower lawsuit alleging the company defrauded the U.S. government with a faulty highway guardrail safety system.A federal...
Oct 2 2017 // A former Illinois county board chairman who also previously worked for State Farm Insurance Co. as a consultant has been sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison after being convicted of a wire fraud scheme.In...
Oct 2 2017 // Wakeup Call“The Equifax breach was a wakeup call, and with this action, New York is raising the bar for consumer protections that we hope will be replicated across the nation.” — New York Governor Andrew...
Sep 28 2017 // Anti-fraud strike teams comprised of investigators working for the Department of Financial Services’ Division of Investigative and Forensic Services will soon be deployed across the state in an effort to to protect...
Sep 27 2017 // China’s top anti-corruption agency says the country’s former insurance regulator has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and turned over to prosecutors to face criminal charges.A weekend statement by...
Sep 26 2017 // The former head of a not-for-profit corporation formed to oversee the water services for Newark, N.J., was sentenced on Friday to more than eight years in prison for accepting nearly $1 million in kickbacks.Linda Watkins...
Sep 22 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended six more medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system, bringing the total number of suspended providers to 38.The...
Sep 19 2017 // The National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) along with U.S. Attorneys’ Offices in the District of Puerto Rico, Southern District of Florida, Middle District of Florida and Northern District of Florida have formed...
Sep 18 2017 // A Colorado police officer indicted by a state grand jury was arrested on multiple felony counts for allegedly lying about his home and car being burglarized and collecting nearly $60,000 in fraudulent insurance claims.Silt...
Sep 15 2017 // A former Illinois county board chairman who also previously worked for State Farm Insurance Co. as a consultant has been sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison after being convicted of a wire fraud scheme.In...
Sep 14 2017 // Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, former chief executive of American International Group Inc., may pursue large parts of his defamation lawsuit against former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, a New York state...
Sep 14 2017 // Michigan investigators and out-of-state police are tracking down more than 30 recalled diesel vehicles that were stolen from the parking lot of a shuttered arena in southeastern Michigan.Indiana State Police Sgt. Jerry...
Sep 8 2017 // Federal prosecutors will lead a new Houston-based group created to help law enforcement agencies respond to an inevitable wave of fraud and other criminal activity set off by Harvey’s punishing rains.Authorities are...
Sep 5 2017 // A former Louisiana police officer has pleaded guilty to his role in a vehicle fraud theft and insurance scheme.Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook, in a news release, said 52-year-old Donald W. Malray entered the...
Sep 4 2017 // The owner of multiple property/casualty insurance operations in northern Illinois has been indicted once again, this time on charges that he defrauded more than 100 clients.Todd J. Fendler, of Rockford, Ill., previously...
Aug 31 2017 // An Avon, Mass., man has been arrested and arraigned in connection with allegedly running a major motor vehicle theft scheme.Authorities arrested Jose Sostre on Tuesday in Avon. Following his arrest, Sostre was arraigned in...
Aug 30 2017 // A Colorado police officer indicted by a state grand jury was arrested on multiple felony counts for allegedly lying about his home and car being burglarized and collecting nearly $60,000 in fraudulent insurance claims.The...
Aug 30 2017 // A Connecticut man originally from Haiti has been sentenced for his role in a scheme to defraud insurance companies through staged car crashes. Jacques Fleurijeune was sentenced Monday in federal court in New Haven, Conn.,...
Aug 30 2017 // After an investigation by the Department of Insurance Fraud Prevention Bureau, two Wilmington, Del., residents were indicted on Monday, August 7, 2017, by a New Castle County grand jury.Lisa Mitchell and Robert Jones were...