All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 6 2013 // A South Florida attorney has been convicted for his role in an $800 million insurance fraud scheme involving investments in death benefits. A jury on Wednesday convicted 64-year-old Anthony Livoti Jr. of money laundering...
Dec 5 2013 // Police in Dallas have issued 37,000 fewer traffic tickets as the force puts more resources toward fighting property crimes and violent offenses.Officers wrote more than 211,800 tickets in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30,...
Dec 5 2013 // Security experts have uncovered a trove of some 2 million stolen passwords to websites including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo from Internet users across the globe.Researchers with Trustwave’s SpiderLabs said...
Dec 4 2013 // New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General John Hoffman announced that the South Korea’s insurance fraud regulator visited New Jersey Tuesday to learn about the successes of New Jersey’s Office of the Insurance...
Dec 2 2013 // Sioux Falls, S.D., police are warning residents about an increase in the number of vehicle thefts in the last month. The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports that most of the thefts occurred after residents had started their...
Nov 27 2013 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that former life insurance agent Russell Lowery, of Olmsted Falls, was sentenced in Cuyahoga County Common Plea Court to two years of probation for...
Nov 25 2013 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of Raquel Pineda, 31, of Mount Olive. She was charged with one count each of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false pretense.Department of...
Nov 22 2013 // The patients, most of whom were on Medicaid and Medicare, came into the medical offices of Jose Katz for checkups and consultations. The vast majority would leave with false diagnoses of coronary artery disease and...
Nov 21 2013 // A large Chicago-based accounting firm has been hit with a $99 million judgment stemming from a fraud lawsuit brought by a Kentucky family that owns dozens of hotels and more than a half-dozen casinos around the...
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...