All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 30 2022 // A physician pleaded guilty to defrauding California’s Medi-Cal system by prescribing unnecessary drugs to more than 1,000 patients, prosecutors said.Dr. Mohammed El-Nachef entered pleas in Orange County to one count...
Sep 28 2022 // Gaylord D. Lincoln and G. Lincoln Farms, LLC, located in Springport, Michigan, have agreed to pay $1,200,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of fraudulent claims for...
Sep 28 2022 // In June 2021, Troopers from Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit New Orleans Field Office (LSP-IFAT-NFO) began an investigation into a Marrero business providing fraudulent insurance policies. Troopers...
Sep 28 2022 // A New York bus driver faces sentencing for fraudulently collecting more than $30,000 in workers’ compensation wage indemnity benefits by falsely claiming that she was unable to work as a result of a disability,...
Sep 27 2022 // Federal officials have initiated a criminal investigation into PG&E Corp.’s potential role in starting California’s largest wildfire of the year.On Sept. 24, the US Forest Service removed one of the...
Sep 26 2022 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) is partnering with the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), the Lansing Police Department (LPD), and Shaheen Chevrolet to offer motorists a free...
Sep 26 2022 // A Louisiana town is preparing to settle a 20-year dispute with the Federal Emergency Management Agency by making a repayment of $163,102.The Town Talk of Alexandria reports that the Town of Ball Council voted unanimously...
Sep 22 2022 // Donald Trump and the Trump Organization used false and misleading statements of financial condition to obtain favorable real estate loans and insurance coverage over the last decade, according to a 222- page civil...
Sep 22 2022 // A Michigan veteran has been sentenced to five years in prison after investigators who followed him discovered he had faked injuries that allowed him to claim more than $260,000 in federal benefits.Joseph Gray, 53, of...
Sep 19 2022 // The Biden administration has called on states and local governments to apply for new cybersecurity grants worth $1 billion over four years.The move is part of US efforts to beat back attacks from criminal hackers, who have...
Sep 19 2022 // Colorado led the nation in 2021 with the highest overall vehicle theft rate but California once again held the top spot for the number of cars stolen overall.That’s according to the National Insurance Crime...
Sep 14 2022 // The name Guarantee Insurance is not one that is likely to be recalled with fondness by many Floridians. The workers’ compensation carrier in 2017 was declared insolvent, a rarity in what is one of the most profitable...
Sep 12 2022 // An oil company on pleaded guilty in federal court to negligently discharging crude off the Southern California coast when its underwater pipeline ruptured last year, a spill that closed miles of shoreline and shuttered...
Sep 6 2022 // Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, and Colorado are all places where your car is most likely to be gone in 60 seconds.Vehicle thefts have skyrocketed in many areas of the U.S., according to the recently released...
Sep 5 2022 // Francis Okyere, 70, a previously licensed insurance agent in Westlake Village, California, was arrested in relation to a scheme that involved him allegedly stealing multiple victims’ identities and using them to open...
Sep 2 2022 // Newswise — A new paper in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that many American businesses are willing to hire workers with criminal records. Such companies become even...
Aug 29 2022 // U.S. District Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery in Connecticut announced the unsealing of a nine-count indictment that charges five men with federal offenses related to their participation in a stolen catalytic converter...
Aug 26 2022 // The owner of an East Austin, Texas restaurant and her manager have been indicted and summoned to appear in Travis County District Court for their alleged role in a $350,000 workers’ compensation fraud scheme.Allison...
Aug 22 2022 // Schshinetia Anderson, age 44, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, pled guilty on August 11, 2022 to FEMA fraud announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. The defendant is scheduled to be sentenced before the Honorable Mary Ann...
Aug 22 2022 // Thomas Stephanie, age 46, of Washington, Iowa, was charged with one count of Insurance Fraud – Presenting False Information (Class D Felony) following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud...