Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Framing Company Heads Accused of Insurance Fraud
Jan 31 2001 // Three construction company owners from Arizona and a California attorney have been accused of insurance fraud and employment tax evasion by California insurance officials. Jay Neal Wright, 48, his son, Jay Neal Wright II,...
New York Fraud Convictions Reach New High
Jan 22 2001 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced that the department’s year-end fraud fighting statistics show that arrests and criminal convictions reached an all time high. In 2000, arrests increased...
Pennsylvania Man Returns From the Dead to Face Fraud Charges
Jan 12 2001 // A former Easton, Penn. man and his wife have been returned to Lehigh County from Thailand to face charges of allegedly conspiring to steal nearly $1.6 million from insurance companies by faking the husband’s death...
Man Who Declared Bankruptcy is Arrested on Suspicion of Fraud
Jan 8 2001 // Larry Lee Reed of Encino was arrested on suspicion of fraud last week for allegedly hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of assets when he declared bankruptcy, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. The...
Welcome to our First Ever
Jan 8 2001 // The demarcation between years always seems to take on a contemplative aspect. We look back to where we’ve been, and then look forward to weigh our expectations. Will the market continue to harden? Will the dot-coms...
Former Calif. Agent Arrested on Warrant Charging 127 Criminal Violations
Jan 4 2001 // Following a six-month investigation, former insurance agent Charles Stanley Tigner was arrested on a Tulare County Superior Court warrant. Among the 127 criminal violations charged in the warrant are insurance fraud, grand...
Palmdale Man Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 2 2001 // Jesus Evaristo Gonzalez, 39, plead guilty to workers’ compensation insurance fraud on Dec. 26, 2000. A sentencing hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court will be held in February 2001; Gonzalez could face up to...
New York Man Arraigned for Insurance Fraud
Dec 20 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced that Arnold J. Pieroni Jr., 49, of Lewiston was arraigned on Dec. 15, 2000. He plead not guilty on two counts of insurance fraud in the second degree and one...
Couple Pleads Guilty in Notorious Fraud Case
Dec 19 2000 // The owners of a San Jose, Calif. insurance agency who duped customers of more than $10 million pleaded guilty Monday to multiple felony charges in an effort to reduce their prison sentences. Kimberly Morgan, 36, agreed to...
Illinois Man Gets 6 Years For Fraud
Dec 15 2000 // An Aurora, Ill., businessman was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison for fraudulently claiming everything from a flood to lightning damage to his homes and businesses. According to a Chicago Tribune report, James...
CDI Arraigns Palmdale, Calif. Man on Insurance Fraud Charges
Dec 13 2000 // Edwin F. Santiago of Palmdale, Calif., was arraigned on Dec. 11 on one felony count of insurance fraud following an investigation by the California Department of Insurance investigations branch. Santiago, 41, was booked...
More Nabbed in ‘Operation Blown Engine’ Fraud Ring
Dec 11 2000 // The efforts of FBI agents and Los Angeles police officers have led to the arrest of 12 people involved in a highly organized fraud ring that staged auto accidents to steal millions of dollars from insurance companies. The...
Sacramento Man Allegedly Altered Receipts, Arrested for Insurance Fraud
Dec 6 2000 // After surrendering to investigators yesterday, Victor Tafoya, 58, of Sacramento was arrested on one felony count of insurance fraud and one felony count of perjury. In October of 1998, Tafoya’s residence caught fire...
Hermosa Beach Man Who Made Crash Landing Sentenced for Fraud
Nov 30 2000 // Paul Franklin Ostrove of Hermosa Beach was sentenced to six months in jail for insurance fraud after making false statements about his qualifications to pilot an aircraft when filing a claim in connection with the crash...
South Dakota Man Charged With Insurance Fraud
Nov 28 2000 // A South Dakota grand jury indicted a man late last month for filing a false insurance claim. The grand jury charged Steven Fideler, 45, with one count of filing a false insurance claim and one count of manufacturing a...
New York Auto Theft Ring Shut Down; 17 Indicted
Nov 27 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced the indictment of 17 individuals in connection with the operation of a multimillion-dollar auto theft, dismantling and stolen parts ring operating in Queens and...
High Court Decides For Lloyd’s in Jaffray Case, No Fraud Found
Nov 27 2000 // It looks like the Lutine Bell will continue to ring at Lloyd’s for a while longer, as it no doubt did on Nov. 3, when Justice Peter Cresswell of London’s High Court announced his long-awaited decision in the...
Farmed Out for Fraud
Nov 27 2000 // On Nov. 1, a Tehama County Superior Court Judge sentenced former Red Bluff insurance agent David Michael Chene to nine years in state prison. Chene was also ordered to pay $273,000 in restitution plus 10 percent interest...
Sacramento Woman Surrenders to CDI Investigators on W/C Fraud Charges
Nov 22 2000 // Susan Jeanette Hobson, 40, surrendered to investigators from the California Department of Insurance on three felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of perjury. In February 1996, the Sacramento woman...
Orange Co. Calif. Woman Arrested on Insurance Fraud, Forgery Charges
Nov 22 2000 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch arrested Lucinda Anne Hatch of Orange County on two felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of forgery. Hatch, 36, was...
