Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ex-Pastor Seeks Reduced Sentence in Katrina Relief Fraud Case
Dec 11 2014 // A former New Orleans, La., pastor who embezzled nearly $1 million in disaster relief aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina has asked a federal judge to shorten his prison sentence by several years. The Rev. Toris Young, who...
Former Bridezilla Surrenders in California For Felony Insurance Fraud
Dec 10 2014 // Anita Maxwell, who was featured in season four of the television reality series “Bridezillas,” has surrendered herself to the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County on 14 felony counts associated...
U.S. Cyber Crime Unit to Focus on Prevention
Dec 9 2014 // The U.S. Justice Department is creating a unit within the criminal division to advise on electronic surveillance in cyber investigations and work with the private sector to prevent online crime, an official said...
Former Agency Owner Standridge Sentenced in Arkansas
Dec 8 2014 // A Mount Ida, Ark., man has been sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering and wire fraud. Federal prosecutors say 58-year-old Steven Alan Standridge was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Hot...
Ex-CEO of Bankrupt Oklahoma Trucking Co. Faces Fraud Charges
Dec 8 2014 // Just shy of five years after Arrow Trucking Co. in Tulsa, Okla., suddenly shut its doors, the company’s former chief executive has been indicted on fraud charges related to the company’s demise. A 23-count...
California Auto Insurance Fraud Sweep Nets Nearly 200
Dec 1 2014 // Detectives from the California Department of Insurance assisted by local district attorneys and local law enforcement spent a week in mid-November serving arrest warrants in 22 counties where more than 200 felony counts...
Five Arrested in Alleged Staged Accident Scam in North Carolina
Nov 30 2014 // North Carolina insurance officials reported the arrests of five people from Fayetville in an alleged insurance fraud scheme involving a staged auto accident in Cumberland County. Department of Insurance criminal...
Little Rock Police: Cars Stolen While Warming Up
Nov 26 2014 // Little Rock, Ark. police say a number of people have reported cars being stolen after they were started and left to warm up in cold weather. Police Lt. Scott Timmons told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that some cars were...
Florida CFO Arrests 5 in Alleged Staged Accident Insurance Fraud
Nov 26 2014 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the arrest of five individuals on grand theft and insurance fraud charges for their involvement in an alleged staged accident. Officials said the alleged scam resulted...
Liberty, Texas, Posting Auto Theft Warning Signs from Insurance Council
Nov 25 2014 // Police officers in Liberty, Texas, will be putting up crime prevention signs in their city this week to help motorists prevent auto thefts and burglaries. Black Friday and the holiday shopping season is a great time for...
Former Washington Adjuster Pleads Guilty To $135,000 Theft
Nov 21 2014 // Former Nationwide Insurance claims associate Fariborz Romeo Rahrovi, 40, on Friday pled guilty in King County Superior Court in Washington to two counts of theft, criminal conspiracy and money laundering related to the...
Arizona Joins Wave of Suits in $3 Billion GM Ignition-Switch Fraud
Nov 20 2014 // Arizona became the first state to join the wave of litigation against General Motors Co. over faulty ignition switches, claiming the company misled consumers about the safety of its cars and defrauded them of $3...
Fraud Controls Important When Hiring Seasonal Staff, Experts Say
Nov 18 2014 // With seasonal hiring in the U.S. expected to be at its highest level in years, fraud experts warn that companies that loosen their usual processes in order to add staff quickly put themselves at increased risk to...
Texas’ Travis County Getting Serious About Property Crime Backlog
Nov 18 2014 // A fingerprint examiner for the Travis County sheriff’s office in Texas will devote the next six months to clearing a backlog of more than 600 property crime cases that piled up over the past 17 months. Most of the...
Massey Ex-CEO Blankenship Faces Criminal Charges Over 2010 Mine Explosion
Nov 18 2014 // The former Massey Energy chief, scorned by regulators and a U.S. senator, may face three decades in prison if convicted of charges stemming from a West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 workers, the worst U.S. coal...
3 Sentenced in N.J. for Running International Car Theft Scheme
Nov 17 2014 // Three men have been sentenced in New Jersey last Friday for running an international car theft scheme from 2007 to 2009. The scheme resulted in high-end cars being stolen in New York and then routed into New Jersey where...
Former Ohio Insurance Agent Sentenced for Stealing Client Premiums
Nov 13 2014 // The Ohio Department of Insurance announced that former Warren insurance agent Timothy J. Mulvey has been sentenced on charges of stealing clients’ premium payments. The Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas sentenced...
California Auto Insurance Fraud Sweep Nets Nearly 200
Nov 13 2014 // Detectives from the California Department of Insurance assisted by local district attorneys and local law enforcement spent the last week serving arrest warrants in 22 counties where more than 200 felony counts and...
Mississippi Man Faces Gulf Oil Spill Claims Fraud Trial
Nov 12 2014 // A South Mississippi man faces trial in a federal fraud case alleging he lied about his past employment to get $25,800 in oil spill recovery money. Court records showed Shawn Albert Townsel received the money after claiming...
Man Sentenced to Prison for Theft of $5M Stradivarius in Milwaukee
Nov 11 2014 // The man accused of masterminding the theft of a 300-year-old, $5 million Stradivarius violin that was snatched from a musician in Milwaukee was sentenced to seven years in prison. Salah Salahadyn, 42, once told an...
