All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Nov 2 2022 // French defense and technology group Thales said on Tuesday the hacker group LockBit 3.0 claimed to have stolen some of its data and was threatening to publish it. Thales said the extortion and ransomware group had...
Nov 2 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 1 2022 // A former U.S. Navy chief petty officer, now living in Georgia, has pleaded guilty to being the ringleader in a $2 million scheme that claimed unusual injuries to defraud a military disability program administered by The...
Nov 1 2022 // A nineteenth co-conspirator was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston this week in connection with a nationwide conspiracy to open fraudulent driver accounts with rideshare and delivery service companies, law...
Oct 31 2022 // Federal prosecutors have said that Bradley Reifler, a New York-based investment manager, contributed greatly to the demise of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., the oldest black-owned insurance company in the United...
Oct 27 2022 // An investigation into the theft this summer of several semitrailers loaded with frozen beef from Nebraska has led to arrests and uncovered a multimillion-dollar theft ring targeting meatpacking plants in six Midwestern...