Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Year…New Fraud Scams…New Fraud Solutions
Jan 13 2003 // Most people wake up on New Year’s Day and make a resolution: lose weight, exercise more, spend more time doing the things you enjoy. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) woke up on New Year’s Day 2003...
Stiff Sentences Imposed in Cicero Insurance Fraud Case
Jan 10 2003 // Federal Judge John Grady has delivered stiff sentences on the convicted perpetrators of a $12 million insurance fraud scheme in Cicero. Reputed local mob boss Michael Spano Sr., whom prosecutors charged with masterminding...
Calif. Man Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 9 2003 // Ralph Taeger, 66, of Placerville, Calif. was arrested for workers’ compensation premium fraud on Jan. 2, 2003. Taeger surrendered to California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigators and was booked into the El...
3 ½ Year Sentence for Woman in Cicero Insurance Fraud Case
Jan 7 2003 // Bonnie LaGiglio, who was found guilty of tax fraud after other charges were dismissed for lack of evidence, was ordered to serve a 3 ½ year term in federal prison for her part in the insurance fraud that bilked Cicero...
Body Shop Owner & Accomplice Arrested for Fraud, Grand Theft
Jan 6 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division announced the arrest of Mike I. Masarweh, 36, owner of All Pro Mechanicx, a San Francisco auto repair...
Calif. Man Surrenders on Fraud Charges
Dec 31 2002 // A Lodi, Calif. man was arrested on numerous felony charges as a result of a joint investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, the San Joaquin County...
Ohio Ins. Dept. to Revoke Agent Licenses for Alleged Fraudulent Investment Schemes
Dec 26 2002 // Holly Saelens, the interim director of the Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI), has notified Powell securities dealer Vernon W. Shiflett and associate Paul L. Edwards, an insurance agent from Marion, of the...
Nine More Indicted in Nev. Fraud Scam
Dec 24 2002 // The Clark County Grand Jury has indicted the nine remaining defendants in the Guy Mitchell Sheets fraud case (See IJ West Web News, Dec. 19): Terri Denise Bragg, Rodney Bernard Winters, Basheba Peoples, Cedric Peoples,...
N.Y. Men Face Insurance Fraud, Other Charges
Dec 23 2002 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced that Michael McGuire, Mark Marrelli, and Glen Marelli of Erie, N.Y. have been charged with arson, insurance fraud, attempted grand larceny, and criminal...
El Dorado Hills, Calif. Resident Arrested for WC Fraud
Dec 23 2002 // An El Dorado Hills, Calif. resident was arrested as a result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Charles David Littlejohn, 46, AKA Charles...
West Covina, Calif. Ins. Agents Arrested for Grand Theft
Dec 20 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch arrested two local insurance agents for selling bogus insurance policies. Jouly R. Kassis, 20, and Mike George Denno, 24,...
San Diego Fraud Ring Cracked
Dec 20 2002 // Over $700,000 dollars were paid in claims for two traffic deaths that never occurred in a case that involved phony police reports created in order to process claims, according to the San Diego Union Tribune. An Allstate...
Nev. Agent Sentenced for Fraud
Dec 19 2002 // Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa announced that Guy Mitchell Sheets, 38, of Henderson, Nev., was sentenced to 12 to 36 months in prison, concurrent, for the two felony counts of insurance fraud he plead guilty...
PIANY Urges Legislative Action on Auto Insurance Fraud
Dec 19 2002 // The the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. (PIANY) has issued a statement urging the New York State Legislature and Gov. George Pataki to pass legislation to address auto insurance fraud. Both the...
Fraud Charges Filed in Two Counties Against North Carolinian
Dec 19 2002 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long, in conjunction with Chief Tom McCarthy of the Fayetteville Police Department and Chief Tommy Hagens of the St. Pauls Police Department, announced the arrest of Eugenia Rose...
Coalition Unveils Its ‘Fraud Hall of Shame’ List for 2002
Dec 18 2002 // The nation’s top 13 insurance crooks, cons and knuckleheads of 2002 have been enshrined into the first annual Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. The inaugural scheme team was...
New Orleans Agent Arrested
Dec 18 2002 // A former insurance and bail bond agent was arrested by the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit and Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators issued her a cease and desist order in what the...
21st Century Files Suit Relating to Fraudulent Claims
Dec 18 2002 // In response to a flood of insurance fraud relating to homeowners and earthquake insurance, 21st Century Insurance has filed a civil complaint against California-based Unlimited Adjusting Company and its principal Jung Ho...
Fla. Chiropractor Faces Fraud Accusations
Dec 17 2002 // A chiropractor in Port St. Lucie, Fla. was arrested on charges of insurance fraud and continuing his chiropractic practice after losing his license. According to the Fort Pierce Tribune, Gregory Dale Blackman had been...
Auto Fraud Scheme Leads to Plea Bargain from Calif. Man
Dec 16 2002 // Keith Aaron Hayes, 49, a resident of Hacienda Heights, Calif., pled no contest to one count of auto insurance fraud and one count of capping on Nov. 13, 2002. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office...
