All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 20 2013 // A former councilman from the eastern Idaho town of Rigby has been sentenced to 150 days in jail and 10 years of probation for insurance fraud. The Post Register reported Lawrence Blackburn was sentenced on Monday....
Nov 20 2013 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Terrance Hopkins of Tyler on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The court sentenced Hopkins to one year of deferred...
Nov 18 2013 // An insurance brokerage owner is accused of helping a longtime Jewish community leader steal more than $7 million from a prominent New York City charity.Joseph Ross was charged with grand larceny and money laundering. The...
Nov 15 2013 // The Insurance Fraud Program of the Virginia State Police recently completed a state-wide research project on Virginians’ attitudes regarding insurance fraud.The study, designed to track attitude changes since...
Nov 14 2013 // Officials from New York State’s Broome County unveiled a new initiative to crack down on workers’ compensation fraud.Broome County Executive Debbie Preston said Wednesday her county has created an informal task...
Nov 12 2013 // William Henry Bullock, 64, of Knightdale, North Carolina has been arrested on a charge of obtaining property by false pretense, according to North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin. Department of Insurance...
Nov 11 2013 // A Broken Arrow, Okla. man has pleaded guilty to a federal mail fraud charge that authorities say is related to an alleged arson at an east Tulsa self-storage facility.The Tulsa World reported that a plea agreement has been...
Nov 8 2013 // Investigators have arrested a man who they say was involved in an “elaborate theft ring” operating in northeast Florida and south Georgia.The Florida Times-Union reported that investigators tracked two stolen...
Nov 5 2013 // New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that a northern New Jersey chiropractor pleaded guilty Monday to causing false documentation to be submitted to insurance companies and subsequently...
Nov 4 2013 // A Newark, N.J., police officer has admitted filing a false insurance claim after his vehicle was declared stolen and found torched.The Essex County prosecutor’s office says Johnathan R. Taylor pleaded guilty last...
Nov 4 2013 // Pirates hijacking ships off the Horn of Africa and Somalia from 2005 to 2012 garnered well over a quarter of a billion U.S. dollars in ransom and used the money for criminal activities worldwide, according to a report...
Nov 4 2013 // A federal investigation into a multi-million-dollar workers’ compensation scheme extended to the Bank of Mingo in West Virginia, where authorities seized computer drives and documents.FBI Special Agent James Lafferty...
Nov 4 2013 // Worker’s Comp Fraud“Thranow cheated both his workers’ compensation insurer and the state of California out of nearly $100,000, and by doing so passed the cost of his fraud onto consumers across the...
Nov 4 2013 // Fraud remains a big threat to businesses, and new technologies are creating new ways for employees to embezzle and rip off their company.“The 2012 Marquet Report on Embezzlement” shows that the number of major...
Nov 1 2013 // A former Kansas City municipal court employee has pleaded guilty in a scheme to use an insurance member benefit program to illegally rack up tens of thousands of dollars in gift cards. The U.S. attorney’s office says...
Oct 31 2013 // An FBI investigation shows that state Sen. Ronald Calderon accepted bribes from a hospital executive in Southern California who ran an alleged workers’ compensation scheme, the Al Jazeera America news outlet is...
Oct 31 2013 // Brookdale Lodge owner Sanjiv Kakkar, 52, was sentenced to 364 days in jail and three years of probation after pleading no contest for two felony counts including insurance premium fraud and failing to maintain...
Oct 29 2013 // One year after Superstorm Sandy struck the state, New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) Commissioner Ken Kobylowski is cautioning consumers to remain vigilant about insurance fraud.“Each year,...
Oct 29 2013 // The U.S. Department of Justice appeared to have struck gold last week with the law it wielded against one of the nation’s largest banks over conduct that fueled the financial crisis.To convince a jury that Bank of...
Oct 25 2013 // The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced that a multi-agency law enforcement initiative, dubbed Operation Strong Safety, that targeted crime, unsafe commercial vehicles and unsafe driving practices has been...