Latest Fraud Headlines
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Ohio Vehicle Thefts Down 64% from Peak in 1991
Dec 17 2014 // From its peak auto theft year in 1991 when 54,744 vehicles were stolen, Ohio has experienced a significant decline ending 2013 with 19,532 thefts. That’s a reduction of 64 percent since 1991, according to the...
Nursing Home Liabilities Transfer Could Be Fraud: Judge
Dec 17 2014 // The owners of a multistate chain of nursing homes may have committed fraud by transferring liabilities to a shell company that later lost more than $2 billion in jury verdicts to families who claimed relatives died of...
Vehicle Theft in California Down 48 Percent From Peak, Report Shows
Dec 16 2014 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau today released a historic look at vehicle theft in California that shows thefts dropped from a peak year in 1992 more than a 48 percent to 2013. California has the distinction of being...
Former Washington Adjuster Pleads Guilty to $135,000 Theft
Dec 15 2014 // Former Nationwide Insurance claims associate Fariborz Romeo Rahrovi, 40, in November pled guilty in King County Superior Court in Washington to two counts of theft, criminal conspiracy and money laundering related to the...
XL Group Launches Crime Insurance Unit; Bangs Named Chief Underwriting Offer
Dec 12 2014 // To help address businesses’ and financial institutions’ crime concerns, including embezzlement, fraud, and bribery, XL Group is launching a global crime business, under the leadership of Gregory W. Bangs who...
Ex-Pastor Seeks Reduced Sentence in Katrina Relief Fraud Case
Dec 11 2014 // A former New Orleans, La., pastor who embezzled nearly $1 million in disaster relief aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina has asked a federal judge to shorten his prison sentence by several years. The Rev. Toris Young, who...
Former Bridezilla Surrenders in California For Felony Insurance Fraud
Dec 10 2014 // Anita Maxwell, who was featured in season four of the television reality series “Bridezillas,” has surrendered herself to the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County on 14 felony counts associated...
U.S. Cyber Crime Unit to Focus on Prevention
Dec 9 2014 // The U.S. Justice Department is creating a unit within the criminal division to advise on electronic surveillance in cyber investigations and work with the private sector to prevent online crime, an official said...
Former Agency Owner Standridge Sentenced in Arkansas
Dec 8 2014 // A Mount Ida, Ark., man has been sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering and wire fraud. Federal prosecutors say 58-year-old Steven Alan Standridge was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Hot...
Ex-CEO of Bankrupt Oklahoma Trucking Co. Faces Fraud Charges
Dec 8 2014 // Just shy of five years after Arrow Trucking Co. in Tulsa, Okla., suddenly shut its doors, the company’s former chief executive has been indicted on fraud charges related to the company’s demise. A 23-count...
California Auto Insurance Fraud Sweep Nets Nearly 200
Dec 1 2014 // Detectives from the California Department of Insurance assisted by local district attorneys and local law enforcement spent a week in mid-November serving arrest warrants in 22 counties where more than 200 felony counts...
Five Arrested in Alleged Staged Accident Scam in North Carolina
Nov 30 2014 // North Carolina insurance officials reported the arrests of five people from Fayetville in an alleged insurance fraud scheme involving a staged auto accident in Cumberland County. Department of Insurance criminal...
Little Rock Police: Cars Stolen While Warming Up
Nov 26 2014 // Little Rock, Ark. police say a number of people have reported cars being stolen after they were started and left to warm up in cold weather. Police Lt. Scott Timmons told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that some cars were...
Florida CFO Arrests 5 in Alleged Staged Accident Insurance Fraud
Nov 26 2014 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the arrest of five individuals on grand theft and insurance fraud charges for their involvement in an alleged staged accident. Officials said the alleged scam resulted...
Liberty, Texas, Posting Auto Theft Warning Signs from Insurance Council
Nov 25 2014 // Police officers in Liberty, Texas, will be putting up crime prevention signs in their city this week to help motorists prevent auto thefts and burglaries. Black Friday and the holiday shopping season is a great time for...
Former Washington Adjuster Pleads Guilty To $135,000 Theft
Nov 21 2014 // Former Nationwide Insurance claims associate Fariborz Romeo Rahrovi, 40, on Friday pled guilty in King County Superior Court in Washington to two counts of theft, criminal conspiracy and money laundering related to the...
Arizona Joins Wave of Suits in $3 Billion GM Ignition-Switch Fraud
Nov 20 2014 // Arizona became the first state to join the wave of litigation against General Motors Co. over faulty ignition switches, claiming the company misled consumers about the safety of its cars and defrauded them of $3...
Fraud Controls Important When Hiring Seasonal Staff, Experts Say
Nov 18 2014 // With seasonal hiring in the U.S. expected to be at its highest level in years, fraud experts warn that companies that loosen their usual processes in order to add staff quickly put themselves at increased risk to...
Texas’ Travis County Getting Serious About Property Crime Backlog
Nov 18 2014 // A fingerprint examiner for the Travis County sheriff’s office in Texas will devote the next six months to clearing a backlog of more than 600 property crime cases that piled up over the past 17 months. Most of the...
Massey Ex-CEO Blankenship Faces Criminal Charges Over 2010 Mine Explosion
Nov 18 2014 // The former Massey Energy chief, scorned by regulators and a U.S. senator, may face three decades in prison if convicted of charges stemming from a West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 workers, the worst U.S. coal...
