All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2014 // The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced on Feb. 7 that criminal charges have been filed against Derl Knarr of Herndon, Penn.According to authorities, Knarr, age 55, is charged in...
Feb 10 2014 // A Quincy, Mass., man has been indicted on charges he fraudulently collected more than $28,000 in workers’ compensation benefits while working under a false identity, authorities announced.Paulo DaSilva, 53, is...
Feb 10 2014 // A Fairfield (Butler County) chiropractor was sentenced to pay nearly $70,000 in restitution and investigation costs to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Tariq Arif pleaded guilty Jan. 13 in the Franklin...
Feb 7 2014 // Kevin Kolenda, 56, a Connecticut businessman who has been reportedly defrauding golf tournaments and golfers for two decades, was sentenced Friday in King County Superior Court in Washington.Judge Jean Rietschel sentenced...
Feb 7 2014 // Police say they have recovered a violin that could be the rare Stradivarius stolen from a concertmaster following a performance last month at a Milwaukee, Wis., college.Milwaukee Police Lt. Jeffrey Norman said experts will...
Feb 7 2014 // A former Nampa City Council member in Idaho has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and 12 years of supervised probation for insurance fraud.The Idaho Press-Tribune reported that terms of the sentence given to Bob Schmidt on...
Feb 6 2014 // A psychologist apologized Tuesday in a Los Angeles court for defrauding the federal government with inflated and fraudulent workers’ compensation claims.Dr. Arnold P. Nerenberg of Whittier said Tuesday he was...
Feb 6 2014 // A major fraud ring that staged fires and floods at South Florida homes to collect millions of dollars in claims from insurance companies has been broken up with charges against 22 people, authorities said Tuesday.The...
Feb 5 2014 // Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the former chairman of American International Group Inc., lost his bid to remove a judge from a lawsuit brought in 2005 by the New York state attorney general accusing him of...
Feb 4 2014 // Florida CFO Jeff Atwater said an ongoing insurance fraud investigation known as “Operation Leaky Pipes” has led to the arrests of 12 Miami residents. He said the investigation uncovered a scheme between a...
Feb 2 2014 // A Southern California doctor and an attorney face prison terms for participating in a $154 million medical fraud scheme in which hundreds of healthy patients underwent unnecessary surgeries to fraudulently bill insurance...
Jan 29 2014 // A northern Illinois man has been sentenced to 6 months in jail for insurance fraud and forgery.Kane County prosecutors say 53-year-old Juventino Guzman of Elgin falsely claimed he’d slipped, fallen and was injured at...
Jan 28 2014 // The former pharmacist-in-charge of a northern New Jersey pharmacy has admitted his role in a decade-long, $1.5 million health care fraud scheme involving twin brothers who owned the business.Federal prosecutors say...
Jan 28 2014 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin this week announced the arrests of five people in an alleged insurance fraud scheme involving several staged auto accidents in Buncombe County.Department of Insurance...
Jan 28 2014 // An Ohio chiropractor was sentenced to pay nearly $70,000 in restitution and investigation costs to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Tariq Arif pleaded guilty Jan. 13 in the Franklin County Court of...
Jan 28 2014 // Baton Rouge, La., police have arrested one man accused of being part of a prescription drug ring in which more than 200 fraudulent prescriptions for the powerful pain-killing drugs oxycodone and hydrocodone from a Baton...
Jan 24 2014 // Fighting online data fraudsters is almost impossible as their ability to hack into new technology often outpaces companies’ efforts to protect it, senior businessmen and bankers gathering for the World Economic Forum...
Jan 23 2014 // Fraud Schemes Depend on Opportunity, Incentive, RationalizationIt may come as a surprise to some that the typical fraudster in the workplace is not the bad-attitude ne’er-do-well that slinks off into the corner when...
Jan 23 2014 // Travis County district court sentenced Anthony Coleman Garza of San Antonio on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, according to an announcement by Texas Mutual Insurance Co.The court sentenced Garza to...
Jan 22 2014 // Insurance associations are applauding New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal for a multi-pronged approach to combating auto insurance fraud. The initiative was outlined in the 2014–2015 executive budget proposal...