Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Trio Arrested for International Auto Fraud
Apr 21 2008 // Three individuals were arrested in California for allegedly being involved in a five-person conspiracy that resulted in a vehicle owned by one of the conspirators driven to Mexico where it was taken apart so that its parts...
N.C. Man Charged With Fraud in Diamond Ring Claim
Apr 21 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. The charges filed...
La. State Senator Indicted in Relation to Insurance Fraud Case
Apr 21 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...
Nearly a Dozen Arrested for $2 Million Scam
Apr 21 2008 // Eleven alleged Bay Area fraud perpetrators were arrested on numerous felony counts including insurance fraud, identity theft, possession of stolen property and filing a false tax return. Wireless phone dealers, employees...
FBI: Dollar Loss From Internet Crime Reaches All-time High of $240 Million in 2007
Apr 21 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...
Man Who Fled to Georgia Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud in Texas
Apr 18 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court has sentenced a Los Fresnos, Texas, man on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The court sentenced Frank Tisdale to five...
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...
