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#1 Warrant Issued for Former Washington Lawyer Accused of Stealing Insurance Settlement
Sep 25 2023 // A Bothell, Washington man was added to Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s Insurance Fraud Most Wanted list. Clinton Jonathan “Sonny” Behrends failed to appear at his arraignment after being charged by...
#2 Law Enforcement Seizes Museums’ Artworks Believed Stolen During Holocaust
Sep 20 2023 // Three artworks believed stolen during the Holocaust from a Jewish art collector and entertainer have been seized from museums in three different states by New York law enforcement authorities. The artworks by Austrian...
#3 Art Dealer to Rich and Famous Faces Millions in Fraud Claims
Sep 14 2023 // A high-profile New York art adviser with outposts in Tribeca and London is accused of withholding millions of dollars worth of artwork and cash from her clients, leaving collectors and galleries to line up in a court case...
#4 Feds Tell Banks to Be on Alert for Payroll, Work Comp Premium Fraud Schemes
Sep 15 2023 // A US Treasury Department unit that investigates financial crimes has directed banks to send alerts when they come across suspicious activity that indicates a business is using check cashing companies to avoid payroll taxes...
#5 Thieves Swarm Luxury Malls in Southern California and Other Areas, Driving Retail Crime to $100B
Sep 19 2023 // It took just minutes for more than 20 thieves, clad in hoods and masks, to swarm the Nordstrom store in the Westfield Topanga shopping center and make off with $300,000 of handbags and other luxury items. A security guard...
#6 Former Minnesota Insurance Broker Charged with Fraud, Allegedly Earned $650,000 in Improper Commissions
Sep 22 2023 // A former Minnesota insurance broker has been charged with fraud for allegedly inventing customers and fake Social Security numbers to earn nearly $650,000 in improper commissions. Kevin Anthony Meyers, 48, allegedly...
#7 Boston Employment Agency Owner Sentenced for Tax and Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Sep 28 2023 // A Dorchester woman was sentenced recently in federal court in Boston for tax and workers’ compensation fraud offenses in connection with her operation of a temporary employment agency, according to officials. Dam...
#8 Insurance Broker in Menendez Corruption Case Allegedly Got Senator’s Help With Fraud Case
Sep 27 2023 // The defendants in the corruption case involving U.S. Senator Robert Menendez include a former New Jersey insurance broker who was convicted of premium fraud in 2011 and lost his insurance license. Jose Uribe allegedly got...
#9 Trump Found Liable for Fraud in New York Attorney General’s Case
Sep 27 2023 // Donald Trump was found liable for fraud for exaggerating his net worth by billions of dollars a year on financial records submitted to banks and insurers, a major blow to the former president in the biggest civil case...
#10 Target Closes Nine NYC, West Coast Stores to Stop Losses From Rising Theft
Sep 27 2023 // Target Corp. is closing nine stores in four states to stem losses from rising retail theft. One Manhattan location will be shuttered, along with two in Seattle, three in Northern California and three in Portland, Oregon,...
#11 Kansas Woman Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
Sep 26 2023 // A Kansas woman has been sentenced to 18 months of probation for insurance fraud, the Kansas Insurance Department (KID) announced. Carolyn Engelhardt, age 30, pleaded guilty in the District Court of Norton County on July...
#12 New York Attorney Changes Plea in Ponzi, Auto Insurance Fraud Scheme
Sep 19 2023 // A disbarred New York attorney has changed his plea to guilty in connection with an $19 million Ponzi scheme and a $30 million auto insurance fraud. Robert Wisnicki, 44, of Forest Hills, pleaded to guilty to conspiracy to...
#13 Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Accusing Google of Stealing Millions of Song Lyrics
Jun 26 2023 // The US Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit by music website Genius Media Group Inc. accusing Alphabet Inc.’s Google of stealing millions of song lyrics. The justices left in place a ruling that tossed out the...
#14 Family Sues Harvard Medical School Over Theft of Body Parts Donated for Research
Jun 19 2023 // The son of a woman whose body was donated to Harvard Medical School for research purposes filed a class-action lawsuit on Friday on behalf of all families who believe their loved ones’ body parts were mishandled by...
#15 ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Sued for Theft of Private Data in ‘AI Arms Race’
Jun 29 2023 // ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. is stealing “vast amounts” of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models in a heedless hunt for profits, a group of anonymous individuals claimed in a lawsuit...
#16 Boeing Accused in Lawsuit of Stealing Trade Secrets for NASA Rocket
Jun 8 2023 // Boeing was sued on Wednesday by a Colorado company that accused the aerospace giant of stealing trade secrets for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, and then building components with “critical” safety...
#17 Report: US Lacks Comprehensive Cybercrime Data
Jun 30 2023 // The United States lacks comprehensive cybercrime data and monitoring – leaving the country less prepared to combat cybercrime, according to a June report by the United States Government Accountability office. Federal...
#18 Supreme Court Limits Reach of Federal ID Theft Law
Jun 9 2023 // The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday narrowed when identity theft can be included as part of federal criminal charges. In the case (Dubin v. U.S.), the high court found that not every use of another’s identification...
#19 Former Wells Fargo Exec Settles SEC Fraud Charges, to Pay $3M
Jun 1 2023 // The former head of Wells Fargo & Co’s WFC.N retail bank agreed to pay a $3 million penalty to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fraud charges for misleading investors about sales practices used to...
#20 Is Mar-a-Lago Worth $1 Billion? Valuations at the Core of Trump’s Fraud Trial
Oct 10 2023 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — How much is Donald Trump`s Mar-a-Lago worth? That`s been a point of contention after a New York judge ruled that the former president exaggerated the Florida property`s value when he said...
