All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jul 14 2014 // Microsoft Corp said it has freed at least 4.7 million infected personal computers from control of cyber crooks in its most successful digital crime-busting operation, which interrupted service at an Internet-services firm...
Jul 11 2014 // Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin entered City Hall as a cool and confident self-styled reformer, won fame there as a passionate, if profane, critic of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina and exited under...
Jul 11 2014 // An Eastman, Georgia, insurance agent has been charged with insurance fraud and forgery in connection with homeowners and crop insurance policies she sold in the middle Georgia.Officials said warrants have been issued for...
Jul 8 2014 // A Mount Ida, Ark., man has pleaded guilty to money laundering and wire fraud and prosecutors say he’ll serve five years in prison followed by supervised release and must pay back more than $7 million in...
Jul 8 2014 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that Howard T. Douglas III, M.D. of Frisco was sentenced to five years’ confinement.On May 16, 2014, a Travis County jury convicted Douglas on felony workers’ compensation...
Jul 7 2014 // An attorney is facing sentencing in Connecticut for his role in an insurance fraud scheme.Joseph Haddad of Orange, Conn., is scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday, July 10, in federal court in Bridgeport, Conn. Prosecutors...
Jul 7 2014 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) released a report on June 16 that examines thefts of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and crossover utility vehicles (CUVs) reported stolen in the United States between Jan. 1, 2010...
Jul 6 2014 // Six insurance companies are suing an asbestos personal injury trust set up by a U.S. unit of Philips that the insurers suspect has been making millions of dollars in fraudulent payments to parties that cannot prove they...
Jul 1 2014 // Two chiropractors in Connecticut face sentencing for falsifying medical records.Jennifer Lynne of Milford and George DeCarvalho of Stamford are scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Bridgeport. DeCarvalho...