All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 11 2014 // Columbus, Ohio, roofer Terrance J. King, owner of Home Improvement Terrance King, which also did work in the Dayton area, has been sentenced to 48 months in prison and ordered to pay $241,000 in restitution.In November...
Aug 11 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) appointed Chris Davis as the new associate commissioner of TDI’s Fraud Unit. Davis is a licensed Texas attorney and peace officer. He was previously employed as a managing...
Aug 11 2014 // Tony Stewart’s about-face decision to skip yesterday’s Nascar race a day after his car struck and killed a fellow driver in a sprint car event was the right thing to do, according to a crisis manager.“The...
Aug 7 2014 // A former Wichita insurance agent accused of defrauding policyholders has struck a deal with prosecutors for a 42-month prison sentence.Jason Matthew Pennington pleaded guilty on Aug. 5 to two counts of wire fraud and one...
Aug 6 2014 // A Stamford, Connecticut, man has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison in an insurance fraud scheme and ordered to pay nearly $1.7 million in restitution.The U.S. attorney’s office and FBI said...
Aug 4 2014 // When neighbors in Kingsport, Tennessee went to help a man whose home bore the brunt of a tornado, they made a discovery police say couldn’t have been caused by the wind.Police spokesman Thomas Patton told WBIR-TV in...
Aug 4 2014 // A Memphis, Tenn., business owner has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a cargo theft scheme that included a theft in West Plains, Mo.Tammy Dickinson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri,...
Jul 31 2014 // Louisiana State Police have booked a 58-year-old West Monroe man with 29 counts of insurance fraud and one count of theft.Trooper Albert Paxton tells The News-Star that John Whittington, a licensed insurance agent,...
Jul 30 2014 // The top federal prosecutors from South Dakota and North Dakota say they have increased their efforts to fight health care fraud.U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson of South Dakota said he has restructured his office to allow...
Jul 28 2014 // A Vermont Transportation Agency foreman is facing charges he lied to police and his insurance company after reporting damage to his personal truck was a hit-and-run accident, when it was hit by a new employee.Roger Daigle,...
Jul 23 2014 // Thomas A. Donahue IIIThe Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority (IFPA) in Mechanicsburg, Penn., has appointed Thomas A. Donahue III as executive director, effective August 5. Donahue succeeds current Executive...
Jul 22 2014 // After a four-year pursuit, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office says it has secured $42,158 in restitution from a Texas man for Oklahoma victims of home repair fraud. The office said that Randy Leroy Madewell of...
Jul 18 2014 // A Memphis, Tenn., business owner pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a cargo theft scheme that included a theft in West Plains, Mo.Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri,...
Jul 18 2014 // Jeremy B. Jeske, 43, a Spokane County Sheriff’s deputy, has been charged with two counts of insurance fraud in connection with a case that was investigated by Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s...
Jul 18 2014 // A U.S. appeals court dealt a blow to the victims of Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme on Friday, ruling that they are not 0eligible under federal law to file claims seeking compensation for their losses.The decision by...
Jul 17 2014 // A federal judge will hear arguments on whether to dismiss the bulk of a wide-ranging indictment accusing a former Kansas insurance agent with stealing nearly $2 million from policyholders.U.S. District Judge J. Thomas...
Jul 16 2014 // Bank of America agreed to pay American International Group Inc. $650 million to settle long-running legal disputes over defective mortgage-backed securities sold in the run-up to the financial crisis.The deal, which the...
Jul 15 2014 // A former Des Moines, Iowa, insurance agent was sentenced to 41 months in prison for insurance fraud, the Iowa Insurance Division announced.Melissa Ilene Williams, of Dike, Iowa, also was ordered to pay restitution for...
Jul 15 2014 // Former leaders of the defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf have asked a New York state judge to dismiss criminal charges against them, saying they should not be made “scapegoats” for the firm’s...
Jul 14 2014 // An attorney in Connecticut has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for his role in an insurance fraud scheme.The U.S. Attorney’s office says Joseph Haddad of Orange was sentenced last Thursday in...