All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 19 2023 // John Philip Ryan, 64, of Yucca Valley, California, was sentenced and ordered to pay more than $220,000 in restitution to victims after pleading guilty to two felony counts of financial elder abuse and grand theft of...
May 18 2023 // Fraudulent filings for state unemployment insurance aid in Massachusetts could be distorting U.S. weekly unemployment claims data, economists warned on Wednesday, making it harder to get a clear picture of the labor market...
May 12 2023 // Insurance claims for catalytic converter thefts nationwide jumped by 288% in just two years, the National Insurance Crime Bureau said in a new report.Claims rose from 16,660 in 2020 to 64,701 in 2022. Half of the thefts...
May 12 2023 // Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant gave notice Wednesday that he will sue a news organization unless it apologizes for statements he said some of its employees made about him in connection to misspending of welfare money...
May 12 2023 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Director Anita Fox from the Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) announced a criminal enterprise and related charges against. six individuals who are accused of...
May 10 2023 // Nearly three months ago, Hyundai and Kia unveiled software that was designed to thwart an epidemic of thefts of their vehicles, caused by a security flaw that was exposed on TikTok and other social media sites.So far, it...
May 9 2023 // Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. announced two indictments of a certified public accountant for defrauding the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) of more than $10 million in workers’ compensation...
May 5 2023 // An elevator mechanic’s failure to execute basic safety procedures caused an elevator at a New York City building to plunge six stories and crush a co-worker to death, prosecutors said Tuesday.Mechanic Peter Milatz,...
May 4 2023 // Four Merced, California, family members were arraigned this week for multiple counts of insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation revealed the businesses owned and operated by the residents...
May 3 2023 // A Holbrook, Massachusetts man has been found guilty and sentenced to two and a half years in the Norfolk House of Correction for damaging luxury cars bought under false pretenses in order to collect insurance...
May 3 2023 // Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced indictments charging eight individuals and six companies with fraud and corruption within the construction industry, including conspiring to fraudulently use...
May 3 2023 // The UK is to set to ban cold calls that sell financial products including insurance and cryptocurrencies in an effort to crack down on fraud, which costs the country around £7 billion ($8.7 billion) a year.Announcing its...
May 3 2023 // A former Bergen County, New Jersey man has been charged with running a large, multistate car theft and fraud ring.U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger reported that Warren Guerrier, formerly of Hackensack, New Jersey, pleaded...
May 1 2023 // A former chief financial officer of multiple special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) was sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling more than $5 million from them, and losing almost all of it trading meme...
May 1 2023 // The chief of staff for an Atlanta-area sheriff has been charged with insurance fraud after an investigation found that he had lied about the circumstances of an accident.Braxton Tyree Cotton, 41, a major in the Cobb County...
May 1 2023 // Massachusetts’ highest court overruled a lower court judge Thursday and reinstated criminal neglect charges against two top former officials at a veterans’ home. Nearly 80 veterans died at the Veterans’...
Apr 27 2023 // BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A bill to decriminalize marijuana in Louisiana was short- lived, swiftly dying in committee Tuesday before ever reaching the House floor for debate this legislative session.Democratic state...
Apr 27 2023 // A New York surgeon and two lawyers are the latest professionals to be sentenced for their roles in a massive massive trip-and-fall fraud scheme between 2013 and 2018 that exploited some of the most vulnerable citizens of...
Apr 24 2023 // Attorneys general in 17 states on Thursday urged the federal government to recall millions of Kia and Hyundai cars because they are too easy to steal, a response to a sharp increase in thefts fueled by a viral social media...
Apr 21 2023 // Following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau, a Jasper County man and woman have pled guilty to insurance fraud.Jarod Hirbar, age 44, of Kellogg, pled guilty on April 17, 2023, to one...