Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Gubernatorial Hopefuls in New York: Spitzer vs. Weld
Oct 17 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has made a name for himself exposing fraudulent and anti-competitive business practices in the securities, mutual fund and insurance industries. Now he is running for governor in New...
South Dakota
Oct 17 2005 // S.D. Farm Couple Pleads Guilty to $1.3 Million Scheme: A Rapid City, S.D. couple has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government out of more than $1.3 million in farm benefits. Connie...
FLORIDA
Oct 17 2005 // Former Agent Accused of Taking $92,000 Joel Berg, the former owner of J.B. Williams & Co. in Weston, Fla., and Seacoast Marine Insurance Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, was arrested for allegedly misappropriating more than...
As Motorcycle Theft Rates Soar, Survey Reveals Bikers’ Concern
Oct 17 2005 // With motorcycle theft rates climbing more than 55 percent and bike sales soaring at unprecedented rates, a survey of motorcycle owners revealed that a full 49 percent are concerned about bike theft and 84 percent believe...
California Insurance Commissioner Campaigns Against Fraud
Oct 17 2005 // California State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has launched a statewide campaign to warn consumers about scams involving fake insurance policies. The Department of Insurance has cracked several fraud cases in the...
Managing Co-Owner Dismissed
Oct 17 2005 // Man Fined For Workers’ Comp Fraud A San Diego County Superior Court judge has sentenced Kevin Vint, 50, of Del Mar, Calif., to three years formal probation for conspiracy to commit workers’ compensation...
Types of employee fraud
Oct 17 2005 // The operations manager for a $56 million bank controlled the suspense accounts entirely on her own. She reviewed the unposted report on a daily basis, clearing out items in the bank’s accounts. She manipulated...
Utah Governor Declares October Insurance Fraud Awareness Month
Oct 14 2005 // Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. has signed the Insurance Fraud Awareness Declaration making October Insurance Fraud Awareness Month. Joe Christensen, director of the Fraud Division, wrote and promoted the signing of this...
N.J. Toughens Identity Theft Protections for Consumers
Oct 13 2005 // New Jersey Gov. Richard Codey has signed into law a package of identity theft safeguards with some of the toughest protections in the nation against such fraud. Consumer advocates have hailed the new law as a model for...
W.Va. School Bus Driver Pleads Guilty to Two Counts of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 13 2005 // Terry Lee Villers of Wirt County, W.Va. has pleaded guilty in Kanawha County Circuit Court of two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud. According to Insurance Commissioner Janet L. Cline, Villers knowingly...
N.C. PEO Operator Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud
Oct 13 2005 // North Carolina’s first criminal case involving a professional employer organization that provides outsourced personnel services to other businesses has been resolved by the Department of Insurance. Insurance...
After Katrina: Mississippi Reports 1,300 On-Going Fraud Investigations
Oct 13 2005 // The Mississippi State Attorney General’s Office records show more than 14,000 complaints resulting after the recovery from Hurricane Katrina and about 1,300 active investigations. Grant Hedgepeth, Consumer Protection...
16 Charged in Lowell, Mass. Staged Accident Scheme
Oct 13 2005 // Nine individuals have been arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass. in connection with an insurance fraud scheme that included the staging of several motor vehicle collisions in Lowell, Tyngsborough, and...
Northern Va. Police Bust Staged Accident Ringleaders
Oct 12 2005 // Authorities are taking aim at ‘swoop and squat’ accident scams They call it the “swoop and squat’.’ A driver pulls in front of another vehicle and slams on the brakes, deliberately causing an...
Canadian Insurers Launch Toll-Free Crime Hotline for Consumer Tips
Oct 12 2005 // A bulletin from the Insurance Bureau of Canada gives details of a new anti-crime initiative, designed to make it easier for Canadians to report auto theft, insurance fraud, staged auto collisions and other crimes related...
W.Va. Indicts Employer, Employee for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Oct 12 2005 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, announced one employer, Brett A. Starr was indicted last month by a Kanawha County Grand Jury on the felony offense of Workers’ Compensation Fraud. At the same...
S.C. Attorney General Adds Staff to Target Insurance Scams
Oct 11 2005 // South Carolina’s Attorney General’s Office is beefing up its Fraud Division staff to reduce a backlog of cases and answer critics who say the department isn’t tough enough on insurance scams. The office...
European Organization Tackles Health Care Fraud; Gee to Head EHFCN
Oct 10 2005 // Health care fraud is of as much concern in Europe as in the U.S. That’s the message from the second annual European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Conference. The European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network...
Boxing Manager Receives KO for Insurance Fraud
Oct 7 2005 // Internationally recognized boxing manager Henry Foster was arrested for insurance fraud in Miami after accepting $93,000 for disability payments when he was not working. John Dygon, a spokesman for Florida’s...
N.J. Man Charged in Auto Scam
Oct 7 2005 // New Jersey Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor has obtained an indictment charging a Passaic County man with conspiracy and...
