All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 18 2019 // An Atlantic City, N.J., man was sentenced to 150 months in prison for selling more than 200 grams of crystal methamphetamine and for staging a fake robbery of a Union County, N.J., pawnshop for the purpose of perpetrating...
Nov 18 2019 // An Alabama appellate court has cleared the way for a lawsuit that alleges outrageous and fraudulent conduct by American International Group and Coventry against a worker who was injured in an explosion and sought...
Nov 15 2019 // A Tulsa, Oklahoma, man was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to repay nearly $370,000 after being found guilty of stealing from his employer.Ernest Everette Howard, 49, of Tulsa, must $368,329.61 in restitution,...
Nov 15 2019 // The role of identity theft insurance as a supplemental product could evolve as personal cyber risks become more of a threat as technology proliferates further into individuals’ lives, according to a new A.M. Best...
Nov 14 2019 // On Dec. 14, 2018, Aaron Cole was about to buy a new house and received an email that he thought was from his title company, directing him to make a $123,000 deposit.Cole complied, not realizing that a sophisticated hacker...
Nov 13 2019 // Tyler Chen, 48, pleaded guilty this week in the Santa Clara County Superior Court in California following his arrest on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and arson for his role in setting fires in a $4 million...
Nov 8 2019 // Auto burglaries and thefts affect over 250,000 motorists each year in Texas resulting in more than $1 billion in losses according to the Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority (MVPCA).Now through a program sponsored by...
Nov 8 2019 // A former insurance agent, political campaign treasurer and Tennessee Republican Party committeewoman, is accused of stealing from her father’s campaign and pocketing insurance money from policyholders who used her...
Nov 7 2019 // Authorities in South Carolina say a man has been accused of stealing more than $700,000 from 10 separate homeowners associations.News outlets report 39-year-old Nicholas Galipeau turned himself in Wednesday and was charged...
Nov 5 2019 // A Cincinnati, Ohio, woman must repay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) nearly $41,000 after being convicted of workers’ compensation fraud.The BWC reported that Michelle D. Smith, 57, pleaded...
Nov 5 2019 // Authorities say a mother and son who worked for a Georgia alcohol distributor embezzled more than $3 million from their employer over a decade. Sheriff’s investigators in Bibb County, Georgia, arrested 72-year-old...
Nov 5 2019 // A 36-year-old Queens, N.Y., man has been charged with insurance fraud, attempted grand larceny and other crimes for allegedly claiming his McLaren sports car had been stolen and filing a false insurance claim in an attempt...
Nov 4 2019 // An Alabama appellate court has cleared the way for a lawsuit that alleges outrageous and fraudulent conduct by American International Group and Coventry against a worker who was injured in an explosion and sought...
Nov 4 2019 // Insurance agent Stephen Mark Gomez, 64, of Lake View Terrace, Calif., was arraigned last month on eight felony counts of grand theft and embezzlement after allegedly collecting over $148,000 in insurance premium payments...
Nov 1 2019 // Three Kentucky farmers have pleaded guilty to federal charges related to crop insurance fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Lexington says 34-year-old Bradley Price pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money...
Nov 1 2019 // Police say scammers posing as a local construction company doing business with a north Florida city got an employee to change information that sent $742,376 to a fraudulent bank account.The Ocala Star-Banner reports a...
Oct 30 2019 // An Idaho man has been nailed for insurance fraud using fictitious golf club receipts.David Gress appeared at the Canyon County District Court this week and was sentenced for insurance fraud. Gress pled guilty in August to...
Oct 30 2019 // Two Georgia suspects have been arrested and charged for allegedly defrauding Lemonade Insurance Company.Special Agents in the Criminal Investigations Division at the Georgia Department of Insurance assisted with the arrest...
Oct 29 2019 // Two men have been charged with stealing two new tractors from a Many, La., business. The estimated value of both tractors is $80,000.Stephan Morton, (38) of Shreveport, La., and Michael Bayonne (41) of Alexandria, La., are...
Oct 28 2019 // An Arizona insurance agent has lost his Iowa insurance license and is barred for reapplying for 10 years after the Iowa Insurance Division found he fleeced elderly Iowa residents. The division said in a news release that...