All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 12 2016 // Deputies in Pamlico County, N.C., say three men have been arrested in connection with multiple break-ins and the theft of more than two dozen guns. Pamlico County Sheriff Chris Davis told local media outlets on Friday that...
Sep 9 2016 // A former insurance salesman who stole almost $1 million from an elderly friend’s accounts has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Kevin Collins will also have to pay $926,455 in restitution under the sentence...
Sep 6 2016 // Attorneys for the state of Washington have denied allegations of fraud in the deletion of emails by their expert witnesses in preparing for a trial over a deadly 2014 landslide. But they acknowledge emails were deleted and...
Sep 6 2016 // The California Department of Industrial Relations announced in late August that $600 million in liens were filed against injured employees’ claims for workers’ compensation benefits by convicted or criminally...
Sep 6 2016 // Attorneys for victims and family members in the deadly 2014 landslide in Washington state have accused state lawyers of orchestrating a fraud to hide the truth by deleting emails between defense expert witnesses.In a...
Sep 2 2016 // Brazilian prosecutors are finalizing a criminal investigation into the Samarco mine disaster and expect to ask a judge by the end of September to charge employees, one of the prosecutors heading the case said.The...
Aug 31 2016 // Donald J. Trump and his now-defunct real-estate university lost another legal attempt to block former students from suing as a group in a California case accusing the Republican presidential candidate of fraud.Trump...
Aug 30 2016 // Southwest Florida bee farmers are having a difficult summer because thieves have been stealing their hives, lots of them, to the tune of $150,000 or more. So far, none of the hundreds of stolen hives have been recovered,...
Aug 29 2016 // Vicki Lee McGinley, 58, a licensed insurance agent in California, was arrested by the Kern County Sheriff’s department on seven counts of identity theft and seven counts of insurance fraud after allegedly...
Aug 29 2016 // Attorneys for victims and family members in the deadly 2014 landslide in Washington state have accused state lawyers of orchestrating a fraud to hide the truth by deleting emails between defense expert witnesses.In a...
Aug 26 2016 // Metal theft became a growing concern post financial crisis due to rising global demand for scrap metal, and although economic conditions have slowed demand recently, this expensive crime is still causing headaches for the...
Aug 24 2016 // Three individuals in Oklahoma have been charged by the state’s attorney general with insurance fraud related to workers’ compensation, auto insurance and certificates of insurance.The office of Oklahoma...
Aug 22 2016 // A North Carolina insurance agent has been arrested and accused of creating false auto policies, according to a statement from North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin. Eddie Ray Butler, 29, formerly of...
Aug 22 2016 // A man federal prosecutors say was victimized in an overseas, online romance scam has pleaded guilty to wire fraud for stealing more than $1.4 million from two Pittsburgh, Penn., area companies whose funds he controlled,...
Aug 22 2016 // The California Department of Industrial Relations announced that $600 million in liens were filed against injured employees’ claims for workers’ compensation benefits by convicted or criminally indicted parties...
Aug 19 2016 // A prominent Texas lawyer was acquitted on Thursday of charges he made up thousands of fake clients to sue BP Plc for damages that the oil company caused in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill, court records show.Mikal Watts was...
Aug 19 2016 // A southeast Missouri farmer has been ordered to spend two years in prison for crop insurance fraud of more than $200,000. The Southeast Missourian reports that 48-year-old Bobby David Lowrey, of Parma, was sentenced for...
Aug 19 2016 // A Leominster, Mass., man who set fire to his own restaurant to collect the insurance money has been sentenced to four years in prison.Jeffrey Cordio, who owned the West End Diner, was also sentenced in federal court to...
Aug 19 2016 // A city councilman is resigning following charges he filed a false accident report and repeatedly changed his explanation for what happened.Lebanon, Penn., councilman Tony Matula, 59, faces charges including insurance...
Aug 19 2016 // A federal grand jury has indicted 22 people from a so-called Irish traveler community in western South Carolina for racketeering, alleging various violations ranging from food-stamp and tax fraud to money laundering and...