All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 27 2011 // Iowa won’t pursue criminal charges against a Texas company that’s accused of exploiting developmentally disabled workers at a turkey plant in eastern Iowa.According to the Des Moines Register, the Iowa Attorney...
Sep 27 2011 // Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd , the world’s largest accounting and consulting firm, was accused Monday of failing to detect fraud during its audits of one of the biggest private mortgage firms to collapse during the...
Sep 26 2011 // The president of a Des Moines, Iowa, firm that provides companies with temporary employees has pleaded guilty to a scheme to reduce the cost of his workers compensation insurance.Under a plea agreement reached with...
Sep 23 2011 // A federal jury in Texas has convicted a car dealer from Rowlett for ‘title washing,’ a fraudulent process through which a vehicle’s title is corruptly altered to conceal information that should normally...
Sep 21 2011 // A former northeastern Pennsylvania insurance executive has been sentenced to 5 1/2 to 16 1/2 years in state prison in what prosecutors said was a pyramid scheme worth at least $7 million. Brian Murray, 68, former head of...
Sep 20 2011 // The former controller for a Houston-based property/casualty insurance company has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for her conviction of conspiracy to commit wire fraud involving almost $1 million in loss to...
Sep 20 2011 // A Massachusetts truck driver has been convicted of insurance fraud in New Hampshire for lying about damage to his truck, according to officials.New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny and Attorney General...
Sep 19 2011 // A Louisiana court has ordered a permanent injunction against members of an insurance fraud ring, banning them from further involvement in the insurance business in that state. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon...
Sep 15 2011 // Three Northern California bail bondsmen have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping clients for the purpose of extortion and insurance fraud.Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones made the announcement on Thursday that bail...
Sep 14 2011 // The Connecticut Supreme Court will take up a fraud lawsuit by ex-NFL player and investment firm founder Bob Simms against his ex-wife’s lawyers, brushing aside a lower court decision barring the claim.Simms, a...
Sep 13 2011 // The Columbus, Mississippi Police Department is launching the Columbus Business Alert initiative, an effort to inform local businesses of crime information as it is happening.Police department spokeswoman Terrie Songer said...
Sep 9 2011 // Insurance regulators in Louisiana say a court has ordered a permanent injunction against members of an insurance fraud ring, banning them from further involvement in the insurance business in that state.Louisiana Insurance...
Sep 8 2011 // The family of a black man who authorities say was run over by a white teenager in a truck in Jackson, Mississippi has filed a wrongful death lawsuit over the alleged hate crime.The lawsuit accuses seven white teenagers of...
Sep 8 2011 // The California Restaurant Mutual Benefit Corp. (CRMBC) is holding up a new conviction as success story in its ‘intensified campaign’ against workers’ compensation fraud.Jeanette Gallo pleaded no contest...
Sep 6 2011 // A Fairfield, Ohio, chiropractor who pled guilty in July to felony workers’ compensation fraud has been ordered to repay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) more than $200,000.Bruce E. Holaday, owner...
Sep 5 2011 // Insurance fraud is so big it could be getting its own reality television show.The show, called the “Fraud Dog,” is in pilot production, and will star Linda Webb, a former AIG insurance claim executive and white...
Sep 5 2011 // A Boston firefighter who claimed disability benefits due to a back injury but still competed as bodybuilder has been found not guilty of fraud by a federal jury. Albert Arroyo was acquitted by a jury in U.S. District Court...
Sep 5 2011 // South Carolina law enforcement officers and insurers hope a new state law will cut down on thieves destroying air-conditioning units, farm equipment and other property to sell the copper inner parts for scrap.No law can...
Sep 2 2011 // A lawsuit filed Friday seeks millions of dollars in damages for more than 300 current and former city workers accusing the city of San Diego of pension fraud. It stems from demands that the workers, including retirees, pay...
Sep 2 2011 // A former Tulsa, Okla., attorney has been sentenced in Tulsa County District Court to 10 years in prison for embezzling more than $1 million in clients’ benefits, Attorney General Scott Pruitt announced.William Anton,...