All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 21 2022 // A car was buried in the backyard of a Northern California mansion 30 years ago as part of a scheme to commit insurance fraud, authorities said.The convertible Mercedes was discovered last month by landscapers in the...
Nov 21 2022 // Edgardo Cabrales Sr., 61, and his son, Edgar Cabrales Jr., 36, both of San Jose, California, were charged with five felony counts each of insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found they...
Nov 18 2022 // Government contractor ID.me, which checks the identity of benefits applicants, had no basis for its claim that almost half of unemployment aid during the pandemic was lost to fraud, U.S. congressional investigators said on...
Nov 17 2022 // Two Missouri tax attorneys and a North Carolina insurance agent have been indicted for helping clients set up fraudulent tax shelters, file false tax returns and to defraud an insurance carrier, federal prosecutors...
Nov 17 2022 // Donald Trump’s jail-bound longtime finance chief is still a company man, collecting a hefty salary from the former president’s namesake Trump Organization even as he makes his long-awaited turn as the...
Nov 16 2022 // Two Kentucky farmers and a relative have been indicted for falsifying crop damage and exaggerating the size of their fields in order to reap crop insurance benefits.A federal grand jury last week charged Randall Taulbee...
Nov 16 2022 // Current and former Board members at Florida’s largest homeowners’ association were arrested Tuesday, charged with taking millions of dollars from the association over several years.It’s the latest...
Nov 15 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced that a Travis County district court judge convicted Sehgal & Sons Enterprises (Ultra Business Services Inc.) of first-degree...
Nov 14 2022 // A banker accused of helping disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh take money from the legal settlements of clients is the first person to stand trial in the sprawling rural South Carolina legal drama that has captivated...
Nov 14 2022 // Former Theranos Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Holmes should spend 15 years in prison for committing one of the most serious white-collar crimes in Silicon Valley history, prosecutors told the judge who will...
Nov 10 2022 // Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine denies knowingly being involved in any fraud scheme and has moved to have the criminal charges brought against him dismissed.A November 4 defense filing in federal court...
Nov 9 2022 // Over a third (36%) of companies who paid a ransom to cyber criminals went on to be targeted for a second time, according to the latest Cyber Readiness Report from Hiscox.In addition, more than four in 10 (41%) of those...
Nov 9 2022 // Data stolen from an Australian health insurer, including the names, addresses and birthdates of hundreds of customers, has been posted to a forum on the so-called dark web.The files appear to be a sample of the data that...
Nov 8 2022 // Formerly licensed insurance agent Vincent Allen LaGrange, 66, of Seal Beach, California, was sentenced in San Bernardino County Superior Court on one misdemeanor count of grand theft from an elder after an investigation by...
Nov 7 2022 // A car was buried in the backyard of a Northern California mansion 30 years ago as part of a scheme to commit insurance fraud, authorities said Thursday.The convertible Mercedes was discovered last month by landscapers in...
Nov 7 2022 // Three decades after a car was reported stolen in Northern California, police are digging the missing convertible out of the yard of a $15 million mansion built by a man with a history of arrests for murder, attempted...
Nov 4 2022 // A New York judge on Thursday ordered that an independent watchdog be appointed to oversee the Trump Organization before a civil fraud case by the state’s attorney general against Donald Trump’s company goes to...
Nov 3 2022 // Twenty-one people in nine states were arrested and charged Nov. 2 with their roles in conspiracies to steal catalytic converters from vehicles across the country and sell them for profit.According to the U.S. Department of...
Nov 3 2022 // Hamilton Names Kuchma as CEO of US E&S Insurer Hamilton SelectHamilton Insurance Group announced the appointment of Anita Kuchma as chief executive officer at Hamilton Select, its U.S. excess and surplus (E&S)...
Nov 2 2022 // A Missouri state employee has been indicted on three federal felony charges and accused of using her position to send about $140,500 in unearned unemployment benefits to friends, relatives and others.According to the...