Latest Fraud Headlines

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Nebraska Sheriff Charged With Filing Fraudulent Auto Insurance Claim

Oct 20 2023 // ORD, Neb. (AP) – A small-town Nebraska sheriff has been charged with filing a fraudulent auto insurance claim to get the repairs to his yellow 2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo paid for.The complaint filed against Valley County...

Ransomware Criminals Aiming at Third-Party Vendors in Hunt for ‘Big Game’

Oct 20 2023 // Ransomware victims have become less likely to pay extortion demands, but cyber criminals are changing their tactics by hitting third-party vendors and using data exfiltration instead of encryption when making ransom...

New York Attorney General Sues Crypto Firms Gemini, DCG, Genesis for Alleged Fraud

Oct 19 2023 // bankruptcybakruptNew York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday sued cryptocurrency firms Genesis Global, its parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG) and Gemini for allegedly “defrauding” investors of...

17 Florida Sheriff’s Deputies Charged with Stealing $500,000 in Pandemic Relief Funds

Oct 17 2023 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Seventeen Florida sheriff`s deputies appeared in court on charges that they stole about half a million dollars in pandemic relief funds.The Broward County deputies, who are charged...

500K Vehicles Stolen in H1 2023; Dodge Chargers Top List

Oct 16 2023 // Vehicle thefts continue to plague the nation, according to a new report released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). The report was released to coincide with National Crime Prevention Month.Nearly 500,000...

Insurance Broker in Menendez Corruption Case Allegedly Got Senator’s Help With Fraud Case

Oct 16 2023 // The defendants in the corruption case involving U.S. Senator Robert Menendez include a former New Jersey insurance broker who was convicted of premium fraud in 2011 and lost his insurance license.Jose Uribe allegedly got...

Warrant Issued for Former Washington Lawyer Accused of Stealing Insurance Settlement

Oct 16 2023 // A Bothell, Washington man was added to Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s Insurance Fraud Most Wanted list.Clinton Jonathan “Sonny” Behrends failed to appear at his arraignment after being charged by...

Maryland Teens Ages 14-15 Killed in Crash Involving Stolen Kia Fleeing Traffic Stop

Oct 12 2023 // Three teenagers were among four people killed in a fiery crash involving a stolen SUV fleeing from an attempted traffic stop in Maryland, police said on Monday.The driver of the vehicle was identified as Marquay Swann, 14,...

How Alleged Florida Theft Ring Led to Pastor’s ‘Anointed Liquidator’ eBay Account

Oct 11 2023 // A St. Petersburg pastor and head of a drug recovery program, along with his wife, mother and others, is awaiting trial after authorities say he ran a theft ring that stole tools from Home Depot and sold them on eBay for...

California Business Owner and Office Manager Charged for Workers’ Comp Fraud

Oct 11 2023 // Bobby Levell Gilbert, Jr., 66 of Santa Ana, California, and owner of B & J Tree Service, has been charged with 96 felony counts for alleged wage theft, denial of workers’ compensation benefits to employees,...

Is Mar-a-Lago Worth $1 Billion? Valuations at the Core of Trump’s Fraud Trial

Oct 10 2023 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — How much is Donald Trump`s Mar-a-Lago worth? That`s been a point of contention after a New York judge ruled that the former president exaggerated the Florida property`s value when he said...

Physician and Pharmacists Charged in Texas for $170M Fraud Scheme

Oct 6 2023 // A 13-count indictment was unsealed today charging two pharmacists and a physician for their roles in a multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud, kickback and money laundering scheme.A federal grand jury in Houston returned the...

New Jersey Insurance Agent, Contractor Arrested on Workers’ Compensation Fraud Charges

Oct 6 2023 // A New Jersey insurance agent and the owner of painting company were arrested this week on allegations of insurance fraud.Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll and Morris County Chief of Detectives Robert McNally...

Georgia Woman Charged with Forging Hospital Invoices in $1.5M Insurance Fraud

Oct 4 2023 // A Georgia woman has been charged with faking hospital reports to the tune of $1.5 million in an effort to defraud her insurance companies, authorities said. Denna Rochelle Conaway, 54, of Rome, Georgia, claimed that her...

Elon Musk Must Face Fraud Lawsuit for Disclosing Twitter Stake Late

Oct 4 2023 // Elon Musk was ordered by a U.S. judge to face most of a lawsuit claiming he defrauded former Twitter shareholders last year by waiting too long to disclose that he had invested in the social media company, which he later...

4 Billion Pieces of Paper Keep Global Trade Afloat but Fraud Fuels Push to Digitize

Oct 4 2023 // They are relatively easy to fake. Frequently get lost. And can add huge amounts of time to any journey. Yet paper documents still rule in the $25 trillion global cargo trade with four billion of them in circulation at any...

Texas Investment Firm Settles Fraud Lawsuit for $2.51 Million Over Madoff Ponzi Scheme

Oct 2 2023 // A Texas investment firm agreed on Friday to pay $2.51 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuit accusing it of fraudulently obtaining payments from a fund meant to compensate victims of Bernard Madoff’s massive...

Trump Trial on Business Fraud Charges to Begin Today in New York

Oct 2 2023 // An appeals court Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay a civil trial in a lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general, allowing the case to proceed days after a judge ruled the former president...

New York Ups Workers’ Compensation Benefits; Targets Wage Theft

Oct 2 2023 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed three bills into law that affect workers, including one raising the minimum disability benefit under workers’ compensation, over three years.The workers’ comp legislation...

Boston Employment Agency Owner Sentenced for Tax and Workers’ Compensation Fraud

Sep 28 2023 // A Dorchester woman was sentenced recently in federal court in Boston for tax and workers’ compensation fraud offenses in connection with her operation of a temporary employment agency, according to officials.Dam Ngoc...