All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 22 2025 // A south Florida insurance broker is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to a $134 million scheme that fraudulently enrolled thousands of people in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans.Dafud Iza, 54,...
Apr 21 2025 // Cyber crime syndicates that run multi-billion-dollar scam operations across Southeast Asia are still expanding despite recent law enforcement crackdowns, building links from Ireland to Mexico and reaching a potentially...
Apr 21 2025 // A plumbing contractor has been ordered to pay $1 million in restitution to the State Compensation Insurance Fund as part of a workers’ comp fraud prosecution.Daniela G. Birdwell, 41, owner of GPS Plumbing, pleaded...
Apr 21 2025 // Fraud has long plagued the insurance industry, particularly in sectors like New York construction and habitational real estate. From staged trips and falls to fraudulent claims orchestrated by networks of bad...
Apr 17 2025 // New York State’s Inspector General said her office identified $2.7 million in workers’ compensation fraud in 2024, a nearly 30% increase compared to 2023.Inspector General Lucy Lang also reported there were 14...
Apr 16 2025 // Prosecution of widespread crop insurance fraud in Kentucky has continued with the indictment of a tobacco warehouse manager who allegedly facilitated some of the schemes.Thomas H. Kirkpatrick, manager of Farmers Tobacco...
Apr 15 2025 // Five people have been charged in a large-scale insurance fraud scheme involving misrepresented life insurance policies that resulted in fraudulent commissions totaling over $1.4 million.The five, which include a former...
Apr 15 2025 // An Idaho man pleaded guilty to one count of felony insurance fraud for diverting fiduciary funds for personal use.Johnny Mateo Robles, Jr. of Twin Falls, pleaded guilty to one count of felony insurance fraud for diverting...
Apr 14 2025 // A 62-year-old Houston resident has admitted to laundering proceeds from a large-scale bank fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.William Mills admitted that from 2014 to 2023, he conspired with others in...
Apr 11 2025 // The Arizona Automobile Theft Authority reported that Arizona vehicle thefts decreased by 15% in 2024, marking a second straight year of decline.Data compiled by the AATA’s Auto Crime Tracking shows that Arizona had...
Apr 8 2025 // On March 21, authorities in Vicksburg, Mississippi, received a 911 call about a stolen vehicle. Moments later, they had another call, about a partly submerged vehicle in the Mississippi River near a landing. The submerged...
Apr 8 2025 // New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed a bill into law setting tougher penalties for retail theft and calling for a dedicated effort to combat organized retail theft.The new law establishes and upgrades certain crimes...
Apr 4 2025 // Oracle Corp. has told customers that a hacker broke into a computer system and stole old client log-in credentials, according to two people familiar with the matter. It’s the second cybersecurity breach that the...
Apr 3 2025 // A plumbing contractor has been ordered to pay $1 million in restitution to the State Compensation Insurance Fund as part of a workers’ comp fraud prosecution.Daniela G. Birdwell, 41, owner of GPS Plumbing, pleaded...
Apr 3 2025 // Britain’s Co-op Group said on Thursday that losses from shoplifting in its food retail business rose by over 14% to 80 million pounds ($105 million) in 2024, or more than half of its adjusted operating profit.The...
Apr 1 2025 // A Kentucky farmer is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to defrauding the federal crop insurance program of almost $1.5 million.Robert Thomas Hunt, of Taylor County in central Kentucky, asked grain haulers to sell...
Mar 31 2025 // About a year into the litigation between American International Group and startup Dellwood Insurance Group, a federal judge will allow much of AIG’s lawsuit to proceed against its newest potential competitor in the...
Mar 31 2025 // Before his arrest Wednesday, Paul Steed was a respected sugar market expert for a subsidiary of famed candymaker Mars Inc. He served on a U.S. trade advisory committee for sweeteners as well as on industry group boards,...
Mar 27 2025 // LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Thieves took eight Corvettes from the lot of a Kentucky automobile plant where the legendary muscle car is built, but officers recovered the vehicles and made an arrest, police said.The cars were...
Mar 27 2025 // Washington, Nevada and Oregon had the biggest percentage drops in vehicle thefts in the U.S. in 2024, according to a new report that shows vehicle thefts nationally fell by 17% in 2024 from a year earlier, marking the...