Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Better Data Needed to Fight Cargo Thefts, Say Insurers, Law Enforcement
Apr 17 2008 // It’s like “Gone in 60 Seconds” with tractor trailers. Thieves steal billions of dollars of electronics, medicine, vehicles and other items from U.S. businesses each year by targeting trucks and other...
Missouri Supreme Court Upholds Felony Conviction
Apr 17 2008 // On April 15 the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in favor of a class D felony conviction of Bob Salter of St. Louis, Mo.. Salter was sentenced to one year in prison, fined $5,000 and was assigned an additional $25,000 penalty...
Fraud Investigation Leads Connecticut to Revoke Agent’s License
Apr 16 2008 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has revoked the license of a Middlesex County insurance agent who it says forged clients’ signatures and held thousands of dollars in payments in his own bank account. Those...
Mississippi Woman Jailed on Insurance Fraud Charge
Apr 14 2008 // A 43-year-old Gautier, Miss. woman has been arrested and charged with one count of insurance fraud, according to Attorney General Jim Hood. Hood said in a statement that Eva Pierce was arrested on April 8. Hood’s...
West Virginia Man Sentenced in Insurance Fraud Case
Apr 14 2008 // West Virginia officials sentenced a Kanawha County man on April 10 for a misdemeanor count of insurance fraud committed in 2006, according to West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline Meddie R. Dunlap, 56, of...
La. State Senator Indicted on Insurance Fraud, Conspiracy Charges
Apr 14 2008 // A federal grand jury on April 10 indicted a Louisiana state senator on charges he conspired to launder money for a convicted felon accused of operating an illegal insurance business. Derrick Shepherd, a lawyer from the New...
Iowa Landlord Charged with Lying During Insurance Fraud Trial
Apr 14 2008 // A Cedar Rapids landlord who was convicted of insurance fraud has been charged with lying under oath during his civil trial in January. Robert Miell, 53, was ordered by a federal jury to pay up to $1.5 million to the...
2 Plead Guilty in West Virginia to Insurance Fraud Related Charges
Apr 10 2008 // West Virginia officials sentenced two Kanawha County women on insurance fraud related charges last week, according to Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline. Tina Marie Browning, 40, of Eskdale, W. Va., was indicted on one...
North Carolina Man Charged with Filing Fraudulent Diamond Ring Claim
Apr 9 2008 // North Carolina officials arrested a Garner, N.C. man and charged him with one count of insurance fraud and one count of obtaining property by false pretense, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Long. Long said a...
Florida Fire Marshal Turns up Heat on Thieves Stealing Fire Equipment
Apr 8 2008 // Florida officials arrested two men in connection with the theft of meters on fire department sprinkler backflows throughout Broward and Dade counties, according to Fire Marshal and Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink. A...
Report: Nevada Ranks Among Worst States for Internet Crime
Apr 7 2008 // Nevada ranked among the worst states for Internet scams last year, according to a government study. The state ranked second in the nation per capita for perpetrators and fifth per capita for victims, the report by the FBI...
Fraud Fighting Texas Prosecutor Honored for Successes
Apr 7 2008 // Kyson Johnson, a special assistant in the specialized crime division of the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, has been named Prosecutor of the Year by A Texas Advisory Council on Arson (ATAC). Johnson was...
FBI: Dollar Loss from Internet Crime Reaches All-Time High
Apr 4 2008 // Internet crimes in 2007 cost nearly $240 million, a $40 million increase from 2006, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported. According to the FBI’s 2007 Internet Crime Report, the Internet Crime Complaint Center...
Nearly Dozen Arrested for $2 Million California Insurance Fraud Scam
Apr 4 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced the arrests of nearly one dozen alleged Bay Area fraud perpetrators. Eleven subjects were arrested over the past week on numerous felony counts including insurance...
Alabama Insurance Executive Indicted in Criminal Fraud Case
Apr 4 2008 // A 26-count indictment was returned against a Montgomery, Ala. insurance executive. Louis Franklin, acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, said a federal grand jury charged John W. Goff with mail fraud,...
New Texas Crash Reports Sans Victims’ Numbers Aim to Curb Scams
Apr 4 2008 // Police officers in Texas will have one less blank to fill out while investigating traffic accidents this year, the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud reported. The form will no longer contain phone numbers for crash...
Texas Feb. Enforcements: Nearly $357K in Fines, Restitution
Apr 3 2008 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during February include four license revocations, three license denials, and fines and restitution totaling $356,925, the Texas...
Update: Fire at Tennessee Sports Uniform Factory Set to Cover Thefts
Apr 2 2008 // Fire investigators have ruled that a blaze that burned a Knoxville, Tenn. sports uniform factory was intentionally set. It took firefighters nearly five hours on March 16 to put out the fire that heavily damaged Sports...
Business Owner Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud in Texas
Apr 2 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that an Arp, Texas, business owner pled guilty in a workers’ compensation fraud-related case. A Travis County district court ordered Jerry Don Calicutt, owner of ZIPCO Services...
Ohio Police: TVs, Motorcycles Changed Hands in Theft-to-order Ring
Apr 2 2008 // The pitch to co-workers or bar patrons, police say, went like this: “Hey, anybody interested in buying a trailer?” Somebody was. Big-screen TVs, riding mowers, motorcycles, frozen food and more exchanged hands...
