All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 14 2021 // A Portland, Michigan, woman has pleaded guilty to filing fraudulent insurance claims totaling more than $135,000, state insurance regulators say.According to Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS)...
Oct 12 2021 // Fourteen people have been charged in conjunction with an insurance fraud and theft scheme uncovered by a joint investigation by the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) and the Ogemaw County...
Oct 8 2021 // The former head of a Massachusetts homeless shelter stole about $1.5 million in part by secretly renting properties he owned to the shelter at above-market rates, prosecutors said.Manuel Duran, 69, then falsely certified...
Oct 7 2021 // The South Florida owners of a swimming pool company have been charged with swindling homeowners out of almost $2 million, as well as failing to obtain workers’ compensation insurance and insurance application...
Oct 7 2021 // A man who owned a Southern California pharmacy was sentenced to over five years in prison after he admitted submitting more than $13 million in fraudulent insurance claims for expensive medication.Thu Van Le, 42, pleaded...
Oct 7 2021 // A former employee of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was sentenced to 78 days in jail, to be spent on weekends, for accepting more than $40,000 in bribes in exchange for providing personal identifying information...
Oct 6 2021 // A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 180 days in the Essex County Correctional Facility as a condition of probation for committing insurance fraud when he staged a motor vehicle accident in Newark, New Jersey.James E. Payne...
Oct 4 2021 // At least one person has been arrested after more than 175 bronze vases were stolen off graves in two southwest Louisiana cemeteries.More than 100 vases were stolen from Consolata Cemetery in Lake Charles and, next door,...
Oct 4 2021 // Top U.S. national security advisers will gather officials from 30 countries this month with plans to combat the growing threat of ransomware and other cyber crime, President Joe Biden said on Friday.An online session...
Oct 1 2021 // A Houston businessman has been sentenced to prison for an insurance fraud scheme and ordered to pay more than $1.8 million in restitution, federal officials say.According to Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei for the...
Oct 1 2021 // A federal judge on Thursday rejected Wells Fargo & Co’.s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders about its ability to rebound from five years of scandals over its treatment of customers.The...
Sep 30 2021 // Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. and New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Margaret Garnett announced the indictment of Dragonetti Brothers Landscaping, Nursery, & Florist (DBLNF)...
Sep 29 2021 // The normal bustle inside of many office buildings has come to a halt during the pandemic switch to remote work, but these empty buildings could be inviting a different kind of activity: cyber crime.“With any type of...
Sep 28 2021 // Financial crime compliance costs for the U.S. and Canada are at nearly $50 billion in 2021, a rise of almost 20% from the year before, according to a new LexisNexis study.Labor costs, more regulations and evolving crime...
Sep 27 2021 // A Wallingford, Connecticut, woman was arrested and charged with illegally collecting workers’ compensation benefits while being employed as a teacher for the City of Bristol Board of Education.Ann Marie Barros was...
Sep 27 2021 // One big national insurance cannabis firm sifted through some of its claims data to tell us that many thefts at cannabis operations are occurring overnight, but more interestingly, based on security footage and other...
Sep 24 2021 // A former insurance broker is going to prison for defrauding insurance companies and individual investors out of more than $1 million.U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Brian Bartz of Rochester, New York,...
Sep 23 2021 // A man who stole $2 million from Kankakee, Illinois, and a regional wastewater agency was sentenced to nine months in federal prison and two years of home confinement.Richard Simms, 74, acknowledged diverting money through...
Sep 22 2021 // A federal district court in Baltimore, Maryland, unsealed an indictment charging a Maryland couple with conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and related charges for money laundering, filing false tax returns and identity...
Sep 22 2021 // Officials with a North Carolina agency have accused a mother and son of falsely telling an insurance company that her car and truck had been struck multiple times by deer and other animals.A news release from state...