Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Minnesota Charges Contractor with Workers’ Comp Fraud, Labor Trafficking
Sep 26 2018 // A Minnesota construction contractor has been charged with labor trafficking, insurance fraud and theft by swindle for using undocumented workers on his construction crews and threatening to have them deported unless they...
Police Say More Than $75K in Equipment Stolen from Connecticut Business
Sep 26 2018 // Police in Connecticut are searching for a suspect they say stole thousands of dollars’ worth of construction equipment from a business. WVIT-TV reports Watertown, Conn., police were called Monday when a business...
Ex-Bookkeeper for New York Tourism Agency Admits to $220K Theft
Sep 24 2018 // The former longtime bookkeeper for an upstate New York tourism agency has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $200,000 from the organization. Kathryn Price pleaded guilty to grand larceny and criminal tax fraud Wednesday...
Feds Say Maryland Man Stole Hurricane Victim’s IDs as Part of $8M Scam
Sep 20 2018 // A Maryland man is accused of stealing hurricane victim’s identities as part what the Secret Service describes as an $8 million effort to scam a Federal Emergency Management Agency program. News outlets reported...
Government Ends Criminal Case Over GM Handling of Ignition Switch Defect
Sep 20 2018 // A federal judge in New York on Wednesday dismissed a criminal case brought against General Motors Co. in 2015 over the largest U.S. automaker’s handling of an ignition-switch defect linked to 124 deaths. U.S....
Copper Thefts Knock 3 Arkansas Radio Stations Off Air
Sep 19 2018 // Three Jonesboro, Arkansas, radio stations are back on the air after copper thieves disrupted operations and damaged the transmitter building and a backup generator. The outages affecting East Arkansas Broadcasters stations...
Top 10 Stolen Vehicles: Older Models Most Vulnerable
Sep 18 2018 // Hondas that are 10 and 11-years old and even older Ford and Chevrolet pick-ups top the list of the most stolen vehicles in the U.S. in 2017. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) released its annual Hot Wheels report,...
Survey Finds Cyber Crimes Cost German Businesses $50 Billion
Sep 14 2018 // Two thirds of Germany’s manufacturers have been hit by cyber-crime attacks, costing industry in Europe’s largest economy some 43 billion euros ($50 billion), according to a survey published by Germany’s...
Michigan Insurance Department Getting New Anti-Fraud Unit
Sep 13 2018 // Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has formed a new division to investigate fraud within the auto insurance, health insurance and banking sectors. The anti-fraud unit will be housed within the Department of Insurance and Financial...
Rhode Island Woman Charged With Stealing Funds from Auto Dealer
Sep 12 2018 // A 45-year-old Rhode Island woman has been charged with forging business checks and stealing as much as $400,000 from a Cranston, R.I., auto dealership where she worked. Federal prosecutors say Michelle Saritelli of South...
Former California Agent Arrested for Allegedly Stealing And Misusing Consumer Information
Sep 11 2018 // Andrew Barcoma Go, 51, of Bellflower, Calif., was arrested on seven felony counts including six for identity theft and one for grand theft after allegedly falsifying information on insurance applications to steal over...
North Carolina Insurance Fraud Round-Up: August
Sep 10 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of August. Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to North...
Stolen From Minnesota Museum, Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers Recovered in Sting Op
Sep 6 2018 // A pair of ruby slippers used in “The Wizard of Oz” and later stolen from a Minnesota museum were recovered in a sting operation after a man approached the shoes’ insurer and said he could help get them...
Florida Insurance Chief Warns of AOB Scams as Storm Gordon Lingers Over Gulf Coast
Sep 5 2018 // Florida’s top insurance regulator has issued a warning to residents facing damage from Tropical Storm Gordon, the first major storm to impact the state in the 2018 Hurricane Season. Florida Insurance Commissioner...
Kansas Insurance Agent Accused of $108K Fraud Scheme
Sep 4 2018 // The Kansas Insurance Department (KID) has issued an emergency license suspension for a Smith Center, Kansas, insurance agent following an investigation of a complaint from an insurance company. Trisha A. Wiehl’s...
Former Illinois Insurance Broker Sentenced to Prison, Must Repay Nearly $1M
Sep 3 2018 // The former owner of multiple property/casualty insurance operations in northern Illinois has been sentenced to more than four years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1 million in restitution for insurance fraud. U.S....
Texan Sentenced on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Aug 27 2018 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court has sentenced Christopher Colligan of Baytown on workers’ compensation fraud charges. The company said Colligan reported a job-related...
Allstate to Acquire Identity Theft Protection Firm InfoArmor
Aug 27 2018 // The Allstate Corp. has agreed to acquire InfoArmor, a provider of employee identity protection, for $525 million in cash. The insurer said it sees “significant opportunity to cross sell” the new product through...
Former Jacksonville Jaguar Player Arrested in $78K Insurance Fraud Scheme
Aug 23 2018 // Former Jacksonville Jaguars NFL player and assistant coach Marlon Tarron McCree has been arrested for insurance fraud totaling nearly $78,000, according to a statement from Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy...
FBI Seeks Help to Find Art Depicting Old West Stolen from New York City Home
Aug 21 2018 // The FBI is seeking the public’s help in rounding up more than a half-million dollars’ worth of artworks that were stolen in 1983 from the New York City home of an artist known for his scenes of the American...
