All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 3 2012 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a man who was misled into thinking he was a father and ordered the child’s mother to reimburse him more than $25,000 for child support, medical expenses and insurance...
Oct 3 2012 // New York state’s lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. alleging fraud in mortgage-backed securities sold by Bear Stearns may be one of the broadest cases to come out of the financial crisis, but its impact is...
Oct 2 2012 // The co-founders of defunct St. Louis-area auto service contract seller, US Fidelis, has been sentenced to prison on charges of stealing consumers’ refunds, insurance fraud and consumer fraud.Missouri Attorney General...
Oct 1 2012 // Mississippi officials are dropping the remnants of an 11-year-old lawsuit after collecting as much money as they think they can get in reparations for insurance fraud by a convicted financier who claimed Vatican...
Sep 24 2012 // A Cincinnati, Ohio-area insurance agent has been sentenced for theft from Hamilton County residents, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced.Former Ohio insurance agent Cecil Young, of Cincinnati, was sentenced to four...
Sep 21 2012 // A judge sentenced former Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa to five years in prison on Thursday.Zisa will remain free on bail while he appeals his conviction for improperly removing his then-girlfriend from the scene of an...
Sep 20 2012 // A Mount Ida, Ark., man who operated several insurance agencies across the state has pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges.Steven Alan Standridge entered the pleas Sept. 18 in federal court. He was indicted in August...
Sep 20 2012 // A state Transportation Department worker has been convicted of stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of workers compensation benefits by doing strenuous activities at his home when he was supposedly too hurt to...
Sep 20 2012 // A financial services industry group warned U.S. banks, brokerages and insurers on Wednesday to be on heightened alert for cyber attacks after Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase experienced unexplained outages on their...
Sep 19 2012 // A Richmond woman has been sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison for health care fraud and other offenses. A federal judge last Thursday also ordered Veronica Sharon Cunningham to pay more than $6.6 million in...
Sep 19 2012 // A former co-owner of auto service contract seller US Fidelis has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison.Cory Atkinson of Lake St. Louis, Mo., was sentenced Sept. 18 in St. Louis. He pleaded guilty in...
Sep 19 2012 // US Bank is rejecting allegations in a lawsuit that claims one of its employees helped Peregrine Financial Group CEO Russ Wasendorf Sr. mislead regulators about his misuse of customer funds.Wasendorf, the founder of the...
Sep 19 2012 // A Dyersburg, Tenn., former insurance agent is scheduled for sentencing next month after she entered guilty pleas to felony theft charges. Tina Butler was indicted on charges that she took insurance premium money from 16...
Sep 17 2012 // A Rockland, Mass., woman has been indicted in connection with a scheme to fraudulently collect insurance payments of more than $28,000.The Massachusetts attorney general’s office announced last Friday that Olga...
Sep 17 2012 // A second man has pleaded guilty in connection with an insurance scheme that cost a mentally disabled man his left hand.U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles says 58-year-old David Player pleaded guilty in Columbia last week to mail...
Sep 14 2012 // The wife of a South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper has been charged with setting her home on fire and lying to officials.Paula L. Rose has been charged with third-degree arson for a fire at her home in July. Rose also is...
Sep 13 2012 // The founder of an Iowa brokerage has signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in which he admits to carrying out a $200 million fraud and embezzlement scheme that bankrupted his company and could result in him...
Sep 13 2012 // Verisk Crime Analytics has launched national information sharing systems designed to help Canadian insurers and their policyholders combat the growing problems of cargo and heavy equipment theft. Verisk Crime Analytics is...
Sep 12 2012 // A recently divorced executive accused of mishandling employees’ insurance funds fired on police at his home in a wealthy Detroit, Mich., suburb, killing one officer and precipitating a 20-hour armed standoff that...
Sep 10 2012 // Just months after Florida lawmakers enacted a law targeting the role of check cashing companies in the construction industry, state officials announced a string of arrests netting more than $140 million in fraudulent...