All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 22 2001 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced that the department’s year-end fraud fighting statistics show that arrests and criminal convictions reached an all time high. In 2000, arrests increased...
Jan 12 2001 // A former Easton, Penn. man and his wife have been returned to Lehigh County from Thailand to face charges of allegedly conspiring to steal nearly $1.6 million from insurance companies by faking the husband’s death...
Jan 8 2001 // Larry Lee Reed of Encino was arrested on suspicion of fraud last week for allegedly hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of assets when he declared bankruptcy, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. The...
Jan 8 2001 // The demarcation between years always seems to take on a contemplative aspect. We look back to where we’ve been, and then look forward to weigh our expectations. Will the market continue to harden? Will the dot-coms...
Jan 4 2001 // Following a six-month investigation, former insurance agent Charles Stanley Tigner was arrested on a Tulare County Superior Court warrant. Among the 127 criminal violations charged in the warrant are insurance fraud, grand...
Jan 2 2001 // Jesus Evaristo Gonzalez, 39, plead guilty to workers’ compensation insurance fraud on Dec. 26, 2000. A sentencing hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court will be held in February 2001; Gonzalez could face up to...
Dec 20 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced that Arnold J. Pieroni Jr., 49, of Lewiston was arraigned on Dec. 15, 2000. He plead not guilty on two counts of insurance fraud in the second degree and one...
Dec 19 2000 // The owners of a San Jose, Calif. insurance agency who duped customers of more than $10 million pleaded guilty Monday to multiple felony charges in an effort to reduce their prison sentences. Kimberly Morgan, 36, agreed to...
Dec 15 2000 // An Aurora, Ill., businessman was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison for fraudulently claiming everything from a flood to lightning damage to his homes and businesses. According to a Chicago Tribune report, James...
Dec 13 2000 // Edwin F. Santiago of Palmdale, Calif., was arraigned on Dec. 11 on one felony count of insurance fraud following an investigation by the California Department of Insurance investigations branch. Santiago, 41, was booked...
Dec 11 2000 // The efforts of FBI agents and Los Angeles police officers have led to the arrest of 12 people involved in a highly organized fraud ring that staged auto accidents to steal millions of dollars from insurance companies. The...
Dec 6 2000 // After surrendering to investigators yesterday, Victor Tafoya, 58, of Sacramento was arrested on one felony count of insurance fraud and one felony count of perjury. In October of 1998, Tafoya’s residence caught fire...
Nov 30 2000 // Paul Franklin Ostrove of Hermosa Beach was sentenced to six months in jail for insurance fraud after making false statements about his qualifications to pilot an aircraft when filing a claim in connection with the crash...
Nov 28 2000 // A South Dakota grand jury indicted a man late last month for filing a false insurance claim. The grand jury charged Steven Fideler, 45, with one count of filing a false insurance claim and one count of manufacturing a...
Nov 27 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced the indictment of 17 individuals in connection with the operation of a multimillion-dollar auto theft, dismantling and stolen parts ring operating in Queens and...
Nov 27 2000 // It looks like the Lutine Bell will continue to ring at Lloyd’s for a while longer, as it no doubt did on Nov. 3, when Justice Peter Cresswell of London’s High Court announced his long-awaited decision in the...
Nov 27 2000 // On Nov. 1, a Tehama County Superior Court Judge sentenced former Red Bluff insurance agent David Michael Chene to nine years in state prison. Chene was also ordered to pay $273,000 in restitution plus 10 percent interest...
Nov 22 2000 // Susan Jeanette Hobson, 40, surrendered to investigators from the California Department of Insurance on three felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of perjury. In February 1996, the Sacramento woman...
Nov 22 2000 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch arrested Lucinda Anne Hatch of Orange County on two felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of forgery.Hatch, 36, was...
Nov 20 2000 // Federal authorities charged 53 people last week in a $1 million insurance fraud scheme in New York. The FBI arrested 29 suspects, including the managers of a physical therapy clinic. The rest were being sought, except for...