All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2025 // A Pennsylvania man has been charged with tricking people into investing money he claimed would be used to buy thousands of automated teller machines, causing more than $400 million of investor losses, U.S. authorities said...
Sep 3 2025 // A Kentucky man entered a guilty plea to conspiring to defraud the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) in relation to an underground fire that occurred in the MC#1 Mine in Franklin County, Illinois, in August...
Sep 2 2025 // A Kansas woman has been sentenced to 12 months of probation for insurance fraud.Kenna Robinson, 50, pleaded guilty in the Douglas County District Court to one felony count of insurance fraud. Robinson involved multiple...
Aug 29 2025 // A Massachusetts couple was arrested this week for their alleged involvement in a scheme that defrauded at least 50 individuals or insurance providers of more than $700,000 through their insurance agency, BL Insurance...
Aug 28 2025 // Anthropic said on Wednesday it had detected and blocked hackers attempting to misuse its Claude AI system to write phishing emails, create malicious code and circumvent safety filters.The company’s findings,...
Aug 28 2025 // A New York man admitted he staged the theft of his own car in order to collect on his insurance fundsJonathan D. Martinelli pled guilty in May to a charge of third-degree insurance fraud in Union County Superior Court in...
Aug 25 2025 // The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Ryan Wear, of Marysville, Washington, and his entities, Water Station Management LLC and Creative Technologies, Inc., for operating two related Ponzi-like schemes between...
Aug 21 2025 // A New York appeals court struck down a $464 million fraud fine against President Donald Trump and his company, handing him a victory over the state’s attorney general.In a decision issued Thursday, the Manhattan...
Aug 19 2025 // Inigo Ltd., the Lloyd’s specialty insurer, has launched a product that provides top-up cover on financial fraud policies.The product, called Inigo Crime Excess, is an excess DIC/DIL (difference in conditions and...
Aug 19 2025 // Investigators with the North Carolina Department of Insurance last week charged a man with swindling almost $1 million and attempting to gain another $887,500 from travel insurance companies from 2020 to 2024. Michael...
Aug 15 2025 // The governor of New Mexico declared a state of emergency in response to violent crime and drug trafficking across a swath of northern New Mexico, including two Native American pueblo communities.The emergency declaration...
Aug 14 2025 // As Texas lawmakers debate whether to regulate or ban THC products, officials with the state’s crime labs say they don’t have the resources currently to enforce whatever law is passed.“From a crime lab...
Aug 14 2025 // Zelle was sued on Wednesday by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who said the electronic payment platform’s refusal to adopt critical safety features enabled fraudsters to steal more than $1 billion from...
Aug 13 2025 // A Michigan financial advisor will stand trial for insurance fraud after waiving preliminary examination, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced this week.Todd Bernstein, 67, of Birmingham, is alleged to have submitted...
Aug 12 2025 // Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two U.S. charges of conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud.Kwon,...
Aug 11 2025 // A victim of identity theft is entitled to recover both treble damages and punitive damages under Connecticut laws, according to the state’s highest court.The Connecticut Supreme Court found that the dual awards do...
Aug 8 2025 // Pennsylvania law enforcement officials have charged 13 people in a scheme of reselling luxury autos stolen from Florida.Attorney General Dave Sunday said the central Pennsylvania-based criminal enterprise involved...
Aug 7 2025 // An Idaho man pleaded guilty to one count of felony insurance fraud in connection with a workers’ compensation claim following an investigation led by the DOI’s Fraud Investigation Unit that showed he illegally...
Aug 5 2025 // A Michigan financial advisor was charged with four counts of insurance fraud, each a four-year felony, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced last week.Todd Bernstein, 67, of Birmingham, was arraigned on July 30 before...
Aug 5 2025 // A high-profile southwest Florida insurance agent who pleaded “no contest” to absconding with thousands of dollars in premiums has been sentenced to just over a year in prison.Reid J. McDaniel, 33, of North Fort...