Fraud Roundup

Hazardous Construction

Three construction company owners from Arizona and a California attorney have been accused of insurance fraud and employment tax evasion...

Phony Policies Don’t Pay

Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch arrested Ronald Prasky, owner of San Ysidro-based Border Pacific...

Caught After Years of Wrongdoing

Following a six-month investigation, former insurance agent Charles Stanley Tigner was arrested on a Tulare County Superior Court warrant. Among...

Let’s Go to the Videotape

Following a joint investigation by the CDI Criminal Investigation Bureau and the Wal-Mart Corporate Claims Investigation Unit, Jennelle Nanleen Allen...

All in the Family

Following an 18-month investigation, CDI fraud investigators arrested a Sacramento family and a family friend on 19 counts of insurance...

What Really Hurts’

Susan Jeanette Hobson, 40, surrendered to investigators from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) on three felony counts of insurance...

Found Fudging Receipts

After surrendering to investigators last month, Victor Tafoya, 58, of Sacramento was arrested on one felony count of insurance fraud...

Touchup Needed on This Work of Art

Marco Anthony Ambroselli, 33, of Sacramento surrendered to authorities after a warrant for his arrest was issued for one felony...

Crash Landing for This Pilot

Paul Franklin Ostrove of Hermosa Beach was sentenced to six months in jail for insurance fraud after making false statements...

Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’

Insurance broker Shahin Sean Pelaseyed, 46, of North Hollywood pled no contest to one count of grand theft of insurance...

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