All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 14 2020 // The owner of a historic St. Cloud, Minn., bar has been indicted on federal arson and wire fraud charges for allegedly setting fire to the business and submitting a fraudulent insurance claim, prosecutors announced.Andrew...
Dec 11 2020 // LONDON — Fraud risk analyst Rajendran Raj was used to the odd out-of-hours alert from authorities, but a call one Saturday in March heralded a new era, of tackling criminals seeking to cash in on coronavirus.A French...
Dec 11 2020 // An enterprise insurance fraud scheme operating in lower Westchester and the Bronx has been taken down following a nearly two-year long investigation.Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. announced...
Dec 8 2020 // Two individuals in Texas have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of...
Dec 7 2020 // A federal judge has dismissed neglect and misconduct charges against three employees of a tourist boat that sank on a Missouri lake in 2018, killing 17 people.U.S. District Judge Doug Harpool filed an order on Dec. 2...
Dec 4 2020 // Moses Luna, 73, of Newport Beach, Calif., was arrested this week on 20 felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly billing 20 separate insurance companies for translation and interpreting services to collect over...
Dec 2 2020 // Judy Hein, 71, of Oxnard, Calif., was arraigned on five felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly underreporting payroll for her Simi Valley roofing business by over $4 million, resulting in more than a $2 million...
Dec 2 2020 // A former Tesla Inc. factory employee will pay Elon Musk’s electric car maker $400,000 after it accused him of tipping reporters about alleged production inefficiencies and delays, a court filing shows.The payment by...
Dec 2 2020 // Nearly 75% of respondents in a recent survey from the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud and Shift Technology said they believe that among relevant technology, artificial intelligence (A.I.) will have the greatest impact on...
Dec 2 2020 // A lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to halt a lawsuit accusing the U.S. president of exploiting his family name to promote a marketing scam targeting poor and working-class people.The lawyer,...
Nov 24 2020 // While Minnesota insurance regulators saw an uptick in the number of fraud case referrals during 2019, agent and broker fraud referrals were down significantly that year, the most recent for which insurance fraud statistics...
Nov 24 2020 // A federal grand jury has indicted a former Virginia attorney on charges that she defrauded elderly clients out of money which she used to buy real estate and make charitable donations, prosecutors said.Cherie Anne...
Nov 19 2020 // A New York woman who stole $3,065.28 in workers’ compensation benefits by forging her late father’s name in order to cash the checks has been sentenced to one year in jail.Bonnie S. Slater of Randolph, N.Y.,...
Nov 19 2020 // A Minnesota insurance agent has been charged with client theft of approximately $524,000, the U.S. Justice Department says.On Nov. 18, U.S. Attorney Erica H. MacDonald reported that John David Paulson, 56, is under federal...
Nov 18 2020 // Jaskaran Singh Gill, of Tukwila, Wash., was charged in King County Superior Court in Washington with two counts of first-degree theft, one count of second-degree theft and four counts of filing a false insurance claim...
Nov 18 2020 // BERLIN – More than 1,500 police carried out a series of searches in Berlin and arrested three people in a massive operation connected to the spectacular theft of 18th-century jewels from a unique collection in Dresden...
Nov 17 2020 // Co-workers Rajdeep Singh, 35, of Rocklin, Calif., and David Bailey, Jr., 29, of Sacramento, were arrested on multiple counts of insurance fraud and arson after allegedly conspiring to commit vehicular arson in order to...
Nov 17 2020 // A 57-year-old Snohomish, Wash., insurance agent was charged this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle with five counts of wire fraud for her theft of approximately $750,000 in premium payments from various insurance...
Nov 16 2020 // E&S wholesale broker and managing general agency Risk Placement Services has launched a commercial crime insurance product to cover losses resulting from fraud committed by internal and external parties.Available to...
Nov 16 2020 // Jamil Reinery Flores, 39, and Nelly Patricia Turcios, 32, a married couple from Fullerton, Calif., were charged with multiple felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly misrepresenting when a car accident occurred in...