All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 15 2010 // A federal tax fraud case against a Bronx tax preparer touched off a workers’ comp fraud case against the woman who is now charged with wrongly collecting over $135,000 in benefits, officials said.Rosa Rivera has...
Dec 14 2010 // Two insurance groups are joining to improve the skills of those helping troubled insurers recover assets and those going after people who defraud insurance companies.Members of the International Association of Insurance...
Dec 10 2010 // A man already convicted for a previous criminal offense in Louisiana has additionally been charged with insurance fraud and felony theft.Louisiana State Police detectives with the Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit say former...
Dec 6 2010 // Bond has been set at $1 million for two Illinois men charged with bilking an insurance industry association out of more than $1 million in a scheme that spanned six years, officials said.The allegations involve an...
Dec 5 2010 // Four people pleaded not guilty last month in U.S. District Court in an alleged scheme to rip off an insurance company of nearly $50,000, including a former North Providence town councilman facing corruption charges in a...
Dec 5 2010 // Among the many innovations introduced in the massive Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act enacted this past July are the new whistleblower provisions, designed to encourage employees and others to...
Dec 5 2010 // Wyoming’s Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Interim Committee has endorsed a draft fraud bill that would protect insurers from civil liability for furnishing information relating to insurance...
Dec 1 2010 // The city of Memphis is upgrading security at the city’s car impound lot after paying out more than $72,000 to settle a variety of theft and damage claims. Mayor A C Wharton told The Memphis Commercial Appeal that the...
Nov 30 2010 // An insurance company wants former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz kicked off a lawsuit involving imprisoned former attorney Paul Minor.Minor, meanwhile, also thinks the federal judge in the case should step...
Nov 29 2010 // Federal prosecutors say the fraud conviction of former Cicero, Ill., president Betty Loren-Maltese should stand, even after a U.S. Supreme Court decision on “honest services” laws.Loren-Maltese served 6 1/2...
Nov 24 2010 // The estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant has filed a $40 million civil rights lawsuit that blames police inaction over prior violence for the man’s stabbing death during a confrontation with a mob of teens who had made...
Nov 24 2010 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has joined with State Farm Insurance Co. in introducing the state’s Hide, Lock and Take program to law enforcement officials in El Paso. Both the El Paso Sheriff’s...
Nov 22 2010 // A former North Providence councilman already accused of corruption was indicted Thursday along with three others, including an on-air radio personality, of trying to rip off an insurance company by intentionally damaging a...
Nov 22 2010 // Wyoming’s Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Interim Committee has endorsed a draft fraud bill that would protect insurers from civil liability for furnishing information relating to insurance...
Nov 19 2010 // A federal court forfeiture hearing is set in the case of a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud. Michael Joyce, of Millcreek Township, is serving a 46-month prison sentence for collecting...
Nov 19 2010 // Executives at Florida-based lender BankAtlantic Bancorp Inc. failed to alert investors about risks in its real estate loan portfolio as the U.S. housing market collapsed, a Miami federal jury ruled Thursday in a rare...
Nov 16 2010 // Complaints about Internet crimes have reached a milestone. On Nov. 9, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) logged its 2 millionth consumer complaint alleging online criminal activity.The IC3, a partnership between the...
Nov 14 2010 // Nearly half (44 percent) of private company executives expect their firms will add jobs by year end, and more than half (54 percent) plan to expand product or service offerings. Another 12 percent of those same executives...
Nov 14 2010 // Accused swindler Allen Stanford may not use $100 million in a Lloyd’s of London directors and officers insurance policy to pay the lawyers defending him on charges of running a $7 billion fraud, a U.S. judge in Texas...
Nov 14 2010 // The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been conducting regional seminars aimed at identifying best practices for providers, law enforcement and beneficiaries in preventing health care fraud. The HHS Office of...