All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 21 2016 // A former insurance agent in East Texas must serve three years in prison for running a $5 million medical investment scam.Robert B. Hahn was sentenced in federal court in Tyler. The 64-year-old Tyler man in November pleaded...
Apr 21 2016 // Volkswagen AG has agreed to set aside at least $10 billion to resolve civil claims by the U.S. government and lawsuits by American car owners over diesel vehicles rigged to cheat pollution controls, a person with direct...
Apr 19 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with the question of when federal contractors can be sued for defrauding the government in a case involving a 19-year-old Massachusetts woman who suffered a fatal 2009 seizure at...
Apr 19 2016 // New Jersey authorities say a chiropractor whose license was revoked more than a decade ago played a role in a medical fraud ring that allegedly stole nearly $4 million from insurance companies. Philip Potacco faces...
Apr 18 2016 // Three sisters have filed a lawsuit against the Nevada Donor Network claiming the nonprofit was misleading when a representative convinced them to allow tissue to be harvested from their mother.Kristine Fagone and her...
Apr 18 2016 // An insurance scam that involved selling bogus liability policies – including one to the operator of the New York tour boat Ethan Allen before it sank in 2005 – has gotten a mention in the data leak dubbed...
Apr 15 2016 // A Connecticut insurance agent authorities say defrauded a specialty lender, insurance carriers, the city of Hartford and the state of Connecticut out of more than $2 million to fund a lavish lifestyle has been sentenced to...
Apr 15 2016 // Five defendants have been arraigned in California for committing over $635,000 in tax and insurance fraud and failing to pay employees prevailing wage on public works contracts, the California Department of Industrial...
Apr 15 2016 // A Potomac, Maryland, physician who owned and operated a pain management clinic has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for a $3 million health care fraud scheme.Sixty-year-old Paramjit Singh Ajrawat was also ordered to...
Apr 15 2016 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reports that motorcycle theft rose six percent in 2015. A total of 45,555 motorcycles were reported stolen in 2015 compared with 42,856 reported stolen in 2014.Motorcycle thefts...
Apr 14 2016 // A Little Rock, Ark., man received a 30-month sentence for auto insurance fraud following a negotiated guilty plea, the Arkansas Insurance Department reported.Tyus West, 28, entered a plea of guilty to one count of...
Apr 14 2016 // Juan Ortiz Velazquez, 27, of San Jose, Calif. and owner of Carlos Auto Body, was arrested with seven other suspects and charged with multiple counts of felony insurance fraud on Wednesday for allegedly filing 20 fraudulent...
Apr 14 2016 // A Newark, New Jersey, woman who falsely reported her car had been stolen so she could get an insurance settlement is now headed to state prison. State authorities say 58-year-old Janette Bautista received a three-year...
Apr 14 2016 // More than 1,000 clients from Florida’s Palm Beach County Health Department are believed to have been victims of a data breach.The department said in a news release Monday that the IRS and FBI contacted the agency in...
Apr 13 2016 // A former Oklahoma oral surgeon whose filthy clinics led to thousands of patients being tested for HIV and hepatitis faces a federal charge of money laundering, prosecutors announced.The court filing alleges that W. Scott...
Apr 13 2016 // Federal investigators looking into the theft of artwork — including Andy Warhol prints of Campbell soup cans — at a southwest Missouri museum hope a $25,000 reward stirs up leads. The Springfield News-Leader reports...
Apr 13 2016 // Kannai David Scantlen, 41, of Valley Springs, Calif., a former insurance agent conducting business as Kan I Save Insurance Services, was convicted of insurance fraud and sentenced to 60 days, three years of formal...
Apr 13 2016 // A Greek shipowner was arrested by London police as he left court after testifying in a $77 million lawsuit against the insurers of a ship that was allegedly damaged by pirates off the coast of Yemen.Police officers told...
Apr 11 2016 // Businesses have lost billions of dollars to fast-growing scams where fraudsters impersonate company executives in emails that order staff to transfer to accounts controlled by criminals, according to the U.S. Federal...
Apr 10 2016 // A Youngstown, Ohio, woman has been ordered to repay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) nearly $94,000 in workplace injury benefits she collected illegally.The Ohio BWD reported that Zelma Forro pleaded...