All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 2 2024 // There were 692 reported thefts of cargo across the United States and Canada in the third quarter of 2023, a 59% increase when compared to the third quarter of 2022, according to CargoNet.Similar to the second quarter of...
Feb 2 2024 // The Southern California regions of Los Angeles and Orange County are again the top spots for catalytic converter theft claims.The regions topped the list for the eighth consecutive quarter in a new report of markets for...
Feb 2 2024 // Shannon Ninio, 60, of North Hills was arraigned for insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found she and her husband, Moshe Ninio, allegedly stole customers’ personal information and...
Feb 2 2024 // A Selah, Washington man pled guilty to first-degree theft and money laundering after an investigation by Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s Criminal Investigation Unit.Jason Eaton was sentenced to 60 days of...
Jan 30 2024 // Three Miami-area construction labor suppliers have been charged with underreporting payroll and shorting their workers’ compensation insurers more than $220,000 in premiums.Juana Ledezma and Luis Ledezma, associated...
Jan 29 2024 // WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A prized statue of Jackie Robinson was stolen from a public park in Kansas, spurring a police search Friday and outrage across the city of Wichita.The statue honors the first player to break Major...
Jan 29 2024 // The number of North Korean-linked hacks of cryptocurrency platforms rose to a record high in 2023, though the actual amount of funds stolen dropped around 40%, a report Wednesday from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis...
Jan 25 2024 // A home surveillance video camera helped lead investigators to five Southern California residents for allegedly staging an auto collision to collect an insurance payout.Each defendant has been charged with one felony count...
Jan 23 2024 // An Illinois man admitted guilt in federal court last week for his involvement in a scheme to commit arson on residential properties and collect fraudulent insurance benefits.Rufis A. Jefferson, 47, of Venice, Illinois,...
Jan 23 2024 // Apparel and footwear company VF Corp. disclosed last week that the personal data of about 35.5 million consumers were stolen as part of a December 2023 cyberattack.According to a Jan. 18 filing with the U.S. Securities and...
Jan 22 2024 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced a Kansas man has been sentenced to 12 months of probation for insurance fraud. Cloise Allen, age 46, pled guilty in the District Court of Sedgwick County to one...
Jan 22 2024 // Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is holding a summit next month to coordinate a national response to a massive spike in auto thefts across Canada in recent years.Toronto, Canada’s largest city, has...
Jan 22 2024 // A new report shows Colorado has the most car thefts, while populous California made the top 10 list.The report’s authors analyzed data from the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer, which showed the amount of motor...
Jan 22 2024 // Vehicle theft rates continue to put pressure on the personal auto insurance market.CCC Intelligent Solutions said in its year-end report that the number of vehicle thefts in the U.S. increased 2% in the first half of 2023...
Jan 22 2024 // A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to orchestrating an estimated $70 million fraud targeting no-fault automobile insurance companies in New York.U.S. Attorney Damian Williams reported that Bradley Pierre of Closter, N.J.,...
Jan 18 2024 // An Iowa man was sentence last week to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to crimes of insurance fraud.Timothy Daryle Sletten, age 32, of Marshalltown, was sentenced on January 11, 2024. The charges against Sletten...
Jan 17 2024 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company recently reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Ruth Castilleja of Baytown, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Castilleja reported an on-the-job...
Jan 16 2024 // CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former finance manager of a nonprofit organization that assists West Virginia disaster victims was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in prison for the theft of $871,000 from the...
Jan 16 2024 // Alabama authorities last week charged a city councilman with insurance fraud, alleging that he falsely claimed he had purchased a BMW vehicle. Derrick Griffin, a councilman in Prichard, next to Mobile, was indicted by a...
Jan 9 2024 // New York state lawyers increased their request for penalties to over $370 million Friday in Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial. He retorted, “They should pay me.”The exchange came as lawyers for...