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Oct 6 2025 // Federal authorities said the superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district had a history of criminal charges before his arrest by immigration agents last week, which shocked the community and prompted the school...
Oct 7 2025 // Navarro Jordan ordered his Land Rover Defender in August. On Aug. 15, Jordan, who lives in Los Angeles, got a notification that it had been assembled, and soon after, that it was ready and waiting to be shipped. Then the...
Sep 19 2025 // It should come as no surprise that Hollywood has not made many movies about insurance—arguably among the least glamorous of industries. However, there are three insurance-themed films worth watching. Two from the 1940s...
Nov 10 2025 // A jury was unable to reach a verdict in the fraud trial of two brothers, both recently graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who were accused of stealing roughly $25 million in cryptocurrency from...
Sep 25 2025 // Fabrice Lehmann caught sight of his target as he left his suburban Paris home, dressed for work. He began tailing him, trying to blend in with the commuters heading into the city.A private detective since 1994, Lehmann has...
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 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...
Jun 20 2025 // To the untrained eye, the red shipping container at Felixstowe looked no different to the thousands of others stacked up at Britain’s busiest seaport.Destined for Africa, its contents were listed as “household...
Nov 3 2025 // Hackers are infiltrating trucking and freight companies in a scheme to steal and sell cargo shipments, a growing campaign that could end up costing companies and consumers billions of dollars, according to new...
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...
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 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 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...
Sep 17 2025 // Duncan Okindo says he was lured to Southeast Asia last year by the promise of a customer service job in Thailand. Instead, he ended up spending four months in a scam compound on the lawless Myanmar-Thai border, where he...
Dec 3 2025 // Four people were convicted of felony insurance fraud and assault for faking an auto collision that involved a rideshare driver in San Bernardino, California.According to the California Department of Insurance, two of the...
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,...
Sep 29 2025 // A federal jury found two former Maryland police officers guilty of wire fraud, arson and insurance and bank fraud.Philip James Dupree, of Pikesville and Mark Ross Johnson, Jr., of Camp Springs were found to have conspired...
Sep 16 2025 // A former executive for a subsidiary of candymaker Mars Inc. pleaded guilty last Thursday to fraud and tax charges in connection with his theft of $28 million from the company, federal prosecutors said.Paul Steed, 58,...
Jul 21 2025 // Uber Technologies Inc. is suing a group of lawyers and medical providers in Los Angeles who it says have made fraudulent insurance claims that cost the company millions in legal fees — the third such lawsuit it’s...
Dec 4 2025 // Competitors in the insurance technology market are now warring through litigation, with each company bringing hard-hitting allegations against the other.Late last month, insurance software provider Applied Systems sued...