All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 11 2015 // A Dallas homebuilder has been sentenced to two years in prison for insurance fraud over false reports of more than $250,000 in materials stolen.Edward Adrian Abraham operated under the name of Park Cities Development Inc....
May 11 2015 // Two people have pleaded guilty in connection with a central Kentucky bourbon theft ring.Franklin County Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Zach Becker told The State Journal that Michael Shaun Ballard and Ronnie Lee...
May 8 2015 // Louisiana State Police say a two month investigation into insurance fraud and auto theft has led to the arrest of 34 people across the state.Troopers say in a news release its Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft unit...
May 7 2015 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed into law on Thursday A-3905/S-2680, which authorizes motor vehicle operators to display proof of auto insurance in either the physical format (a paper insurance card provided by their...
May 6 2015 // A California officer faces insurance fraud charges after authorities say a video showed her participating in an ice-bucket challenge despite claiming she had a back injury.Los Angeles County prosecutors say a video posted...
May 6 2015 // Wells Fargo Bank could be writing a big check after the city of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit over unfair practices in which employees opened unauthorized accounts for customers, sticking them with fees and damaging their...
May 4 2015 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud has arrested Roxana Suarez La Rosa on charges related to PIP (personal injury protection) fraud. In 2012, the Saint Jose Injury Center in...
May 4 2015 // More and more drivers are making it easy for thieves. A new report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has found an increasing number of thefts of vehicles with the keys left inside.For the years 2012 through...
May 1 2015 // Authorities say personal information on 900 Los Angeles County mental health patients was stolen but it’s unclear if any of it was misused for ID theft.The Los Angeles Times reported documents with Social Security...
May 1 2015 // Attorney General Loretta Lynch this week urged greater cooperation between the government and private industry to combat computer hackers, a key component of a new cyber- attack playbook released by the Justice...
Apr 28 2015 // The owners of the Green Cactus Collective Medical Marijuana Dispensary in Palmdale, Calif., were arrested on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud.Tiffany Shorter, 26, and Jabe Satterfield, 77, failed to carry...
Apr 27 2015 // More and more drivers are making it easy for thieves. A new report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has found an increasing number of thefts of vehicles with the keys left inside.For the years 2012 through...
Apr 24 2015 // A former Alabama police chief is one of two men charged with insurance fraud for an October house fire.Sixty-two-year-old Thomas Fuller and 47-year-old Glenn Fuller were arrested Saturday and taken to DeKalb County Jail,...
Apr 22 2015 // A new ordinance in Saginaw will require renters to pledge to keep their homes free of crime and puts landlords on the hook for making sure tenants obey the rules.The ordinance, dubbed the “crime-free lease...
Apr 22 2015 // In a last-ditch effort to avoid trial, former American International Group Inc Chairman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg is seeking permission to ask New York’s highest court to throw out the accounting fraud...
Apr 22 2015 // The former mayor of Milledgeville has turned himself in to face a dozen charges of insurance fraud.The Macon Telegraph reported that 52-year-old Richard Bentley was booked at Baldwin County Jail on Monday. Officers said...
Apr 21 2015 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has sued State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for allegedly shifting hundreds of millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina wind claims to the state by mislabeling them flood claims.The...
Apr 20 2015 // The Connecticut attorney general’s office says Anthem Inc. customers are increasingly reporting fraudulent tax returns being filed using their names and other personal information.But spokesman Robert Blanchard said...
Apr 20 2015 // Licensed insurance agent Lars Hedegaard, 63, of Danville, Calif. was arrested on two felony counts of grand theft in April.Hedegaard was doing business as Westport & Associates Insurance Services Inc. when he...
Apr 17 2015 // Whoever stole five heavy barrels of Wild Turkey bourbon from a Kentucky warehouse may have taken a lot more liquor than previously thought and the case could result in multiple indictments, according to the sheriff...