All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 12 2011 // A Hammond woman pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining nearly $8,000 in disaster assistance from the American Red Cross after Hurricane Katrina. Thirty-year-old Tamara Morris faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in...
Aug 12 2011 // A former Hammond bank employee has pleaded no contest to a charge of felony theft in connection with the diversion of funds that should have gone to people who had made early cancellations of insurance policies.Amite, La....
Aug 12 2011 // South Carolina law enforcement officers said they 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.Most of the...
Aug 11 2011 // A new law inspired by a former Illinois State Police trooper’s high-speed freeway wreck that killed two sisters bars state employees injured while committing crimes from getting workers’ compensation.The...
Aug 11 2011 // An ex-insurance adjuster who helped a former Rhode Island radio personality file a bogus home insurance claim last year pleaded guilty on Tuesday to his role in the scheme.In a deal with prosecutors, Vincent DiPaolo, 62,...
Aug 10 2011 // An ex-insurance adjuster was set to plead guilty to charges he helped a former Rhode Island radio personality file a phony insurance claim for more than $40,000. Federal prosecutors said Vincent DiPaolo of Johnston was to...
Aug 8 2011 // Insurer American International Group (AIG) is suing Bank of America Corp. to recover more than $10 billion of losses from a “massive fraud” on mortgage debt, deepening the morass of litigation faced by the...
Aug 5 2011 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced $3.2 million in grants to California District Attorneys aimed at combating fraudulent disability and health claims against insurance carriers and to protect...
Aug 5 2011 // The New York Insurance Association has noted that the 2000 Honda Civic is again the most frequently stolen vehicle in New York State.The Hot Wheels 2011 study released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) examines...
Aug 4 2011 // Federal authorities say 20 South Texas residents have been convicted for their roles in a scheme to defraud the American Family Life Insurance Co. In mid-June, 36 people were indicted on accusations they participated in...
Aug 4 2011 // An insurance industry group says a very specific Chrysler minivan is Ohio’s most stolen vehicle for the third year in a row.Once again, the 2000 model Dodge Caravan tops the annual report from the Ohio Insurance...
Aug 4 2011 // Florida officials are calling for an investigation into the role of check cashing services in helping construction subcontractors avoid paying their fair share of workers’ compensation premiums. Florida Chief...
Aug 4 2011 // The Association of British Insurers reports that the UK’s insurance companies are “detecting more fraudulent claims than ever: over 2,500 worth £18 million [$29.446 million] every week.” A number of...
Aug 3 2011 // Two Honda models top the list of U.S. thieves’ favorite vehicles.The National Insurance Crime Bureau examined vehicle theft data submitted by law enforcement to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and...
Aug 3 2011 // New Jersey Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Division of Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor announced that a man from HudsonCounty, N.J. has pleaded guilty to an identity theft scam.According to Acting Insurance...
Aug 1 2011 // Federal authorities say 20 South Texas residents have been convicted for their roles in a scheme to defraud the American Family Life Assurance Co.In mid-June, 36 people were indicted on accusations they participated in the...
Aug 1 2011 // A former New York lawmaker convicted of insurance fraud earlier this year has pleaded guilty in a separate multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme.George Guldi admitted to grand larceny and other charges Friday in a...
Aug 1 2011 // Bank of America and two former executives lost a bid on Friday to dismiss securities fraud claims alleging they misled investors about the bank’s 2008 acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co.U.S. District Court Judge...
Aug 1 2011 // A new lock, a thick door and a steel bar across the shuttered front counter of the Canyon Lake Little League concession stand still couldn’t prevent the youth baseball league from taking a hit.The president of the...
Jul 29 2011 // Officials in Gainesville, Florida have a message for residents and visitors. Please stop stealing stop signs.Since Jan. 1, the city has replaced 52 stops signs taken from 14 locations around the city. Officials say one...