Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ex-Kansas Insurance Agent Gets Prison Sentence for Client, Company Theft
Jan 14 2015 // Prosecutors say a former insurance agent in Kansas has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for stealing from his clients. The U.S. attorney’s office said that 43-year-old Jason Matthew Pennington of Wichita pleaded...
N.Y. Gov. Announces Nearly $4M Awarded to Combat Auto Theft, Insurance Fraud
Jan 12 2015 // New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced more than $3.7 million in grant funding to fight against motor vehicle theft and insurance fraud. The grant awards will go to district attorneys’ offices and police departments...
Historical Analysis of Auto Thefts in New York, Massachusetts
Jan 12 2015 // Auto thefts in New York and Massachusetts have fallen by 90 percent or more from their peak years, according to a historical analysis by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). From its peak auto theft year in 1990...
Former California Highway Patrolman Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 12 2015 // A former California Highway Patrol officer has been convicted in a case involving workers’ compensation insurance fraud. A Sacramento County jury in December convicted Tony Yao on felony charges of failure to...
5 Arrested in N.Y. for Alleged Accident Staging, Insurance Fraud
Jan 9 2015 // New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced the arrests of five individuals for their alleged roles staging auto accidents in New York’s Nassau and Suffolk counties to fraudulently receive insurance...
Florida PIP Report Shows Reduction in Rates and Fraud
Jan 9 2015 // Florida’s attempt to lower the cost of personal injury protection (PIP) automobile coverage is making progress as insurers’ rates have declined due in part to lower losses and fewer fraudulent claims. The...
North Texas Doctor Gets 12 Years for Insurance Fraud
Jan 7 2015 // A North Texas chiropractor has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for billing health care providers for services that were never rendered. Dr. Abbas Zahedi of Carrollton was sentenced in federal court and...
Massey CEO Wins Delay of Criminal Trial Until April
Jan 6 2015 // Ex-Massey Energy chief Donald Blankenship won an almost three-month delay of his trial, scheduled to begin later this month, on federal charges tied to a fatal 2010 mine explosion that was the worst U.S. coal industry...
Deputy US Marshal Admits Guilt in Texas Insurance Fraud Scheme
Jan 2 2015 // A San Antonio-based deputy U.S. marshal has pleaded guilty to wire fraud relating to an insurance fraud scheme. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s office, Reynaldo Gonzalez entered his plea in San...
Uber Called ‘Criminal Enterprise’ by Philadelphia Cab Owners
Dec 29 2014 // Uber Technologies Inc., facing a legal backlash as it expands globally, was called a “criminal enterprise” in a lawsuit by Philadelphia cab companies seeking to block the on-demand car service from operating in...
3 Sentenced in Louisiana Auto Insurance Fraud Scheme
Dec 29 2014 // United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced three defendants in an insurance fraud scheme recently received prison sentences. Additionally, one of them was ordered to pay more than $190,000 for staging automobile...
You Say ‘Po-Tay-Toh,’ I Say Massive Spud Fraud
Dec 23 2014 // A pair of Cooperstown, N.D. brothers have been convicted in a $2 million scheme to defraud the federal crop insurance program with false claims of loss on their potato harvest. In convicting the brothers, Aaron and Derek...
Georgia Man Charged in Cellphone Insurance Scam
Dec 23 2014 // State officials in Georgia said a Covington man has been arrested in a scheme to obtain new cellphones by defrauding an insurance program. The Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner’s office said 35-year-old...
Former California Highway Patrolman Convicted of Worker’s Comp Fraud
Dec 22 2014 // A former California Highway Patrol officer has been convicted in a case involving workers’ compensation insurance fraud. A Sacramento County jury on Thursday convicted Tony Yao on felony charges of failure to...
Ringleader of Auto Insurance Fraud Scam Pleads Guilty in Massachusetts
Dec 19 2014 // The ringleader of an automobile insurance fraud scheme in which dozens of New York City residents claimed they lived at fictional addresses in western Massachusetts has pleaded guilty in a deal she hopes will help her...
Executives in West Virginia Chemical Spill Facing Criminal Charges
Dec 19 2014 // When state inspectors arrived at Freedom Industries asking about a licorice smell enveloping West Virginia’s capital city, the point person at the tank farm, Dennis P. Farrell, told them he knew nothing about a...
Fraud Scheme Leads to Prison for Former Oklahoma Insurance Firm Employee
Dec 18 2014 // The former employee of an insurance company faces two years in federal prison and more than $168,000 in restitution after being sentenced on a fraud conviction by U.S. district judge in Oklahoma City. Carla Jo Mires, of...
Mass. Vehicle Thefts Down 90% From Peak in 1975, Report Shows
Dec 17 2014 // From its peak auto theft year in 1975 when 91,563 vehicles were stolen, Massachusetts has experienced a significant decline ending 2013 with 9,122 thefts. That’s a reduction of 90 percent since 1975, according to the...
NICB: Vehicle Thefts in New York Down 92% From Peak in 1990
Dec 17 2014 // From its peak auto theft year in 1990 when 187,591 vehicles were stolen, New York has experienced a significant decline ending 2013 with 15,482 thefts. That’s a reduction of 92 percent since 1990, according to the...
Technology Dominates Texas-Based Group’s Fraud Predictions for 2015
Dec 17 2014 // Technology will give fraudsters an edge in 2015, but it will also provide new tools for organizations and investigators, according to three experts from the Austin, Texas-based Association of Certified Fraud Examiners...
