Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Newly Appointed Florida Deputy CFO to Focus on Insurance Fraud
Jan 4 2021 // Former Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections Julie Jones has been appointed Deputy Chief Financial Officer within the Office of Chief Financial Officer, according to a statement from the Florida Department of...
Introducing the 2020 Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame
Dec 30 2020 // The year 2020 would not be complete without a recap of America’s worst insurance fraud crimes. Homeless New Yorkers targeted in a $31.7 million slip-and-fall ring. A sober-home mogul trades sex for drugs. A...
Former N.Y. Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty to Stealing Unearned Wages
Dec 29 2020 // A former New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) officer has pled guilty to forging paperwork falsely claiming military service so that he could take time off. Kyle Bouille, of Corning,...
Data Theft at Defense Firm Leonardo Targeted Details of Military Aircraft: Arrest Warrant
Dec 23 2020 // MILAN – An investigation into a data theft at Leonardo has found that a hacker working inside the Italian defense group appeared to target details of Europe’s biggest unmanned fighter jet program and aircraft used...
Wisconsin Dentist Accused of Breaking Teeth in Insurance Fraud Scheme
Dec 21 2020 // A Wisconsin dentist is accused of damaging his patients’ teeth so that he could bill insurance companies for crown procedures. Scott Charmoli, 60, of Grafton, has been charged in federal court with eight counts of...
Exxon Argues Massachusetts Climate Fraud Lawsuit Punishes It for Opinion
Dec 17 2020 // Exxon Mobil Corp. told a judge that a fraud lawsuit filed by Massachusetts last year amounts to illegal punishment for the energy giant’s views about fossil fuels, the latest twist in their bitter clash over climate...
Maryland Woman Charged with Insurance Fraud After Setting Fire to Her House
Dec 17 2020 // After a lengthy investigation, deputies of the Maryland State Fire Marshal’s Office have charged a Caroline County woman for intentionally setting fire to her house. The fire was reported to 911 by a passer-by around...
Iowa Insurance Agent Fined $18K, Loses License Over Fraudulent, Dishonest Practices
Dec 15 2020 // An Iowa insurance agent has been ordered to pay $18,000 in civil penalties and relinquish her producer’s license over fraudulent and dishonest business practices, regulators say. The Iowa Insurance Division cited...
Minnesota Bar Owner Faces Federal Arson, Insurance Fraud Charges
Dec 14 2020 // The owner of a historic St. Cloud, Minn., bar has been indicted on federal arson and wire fraud charges for allegedly setting fire to the business and submitting a fraudulent insurance claim, prosecutors announced. Andrew...
Global Banks Battle COVID-19 Crime Wave
Dec 11 2020 // LONDON — Fraud risk analyst Rajendran Raj was used to the odd out-of-hours alert from authorities, but a call one Saturday in March heralded a new era, of tackling criminals seeking to cash in on coronavirus. A...
New York Auto Insurance Fraud Ring Busted Following Two-Year Investigation
Dec 11 2020 // An enterprise insurance fraud scheme operating in lower Westchester and the Bronx has been taken down following a nearly two-year long investigation. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. announced...
2 Texans Plead Guilty to Spending Spree Funded by Cyber Fraud
Dec 8 2020 // Two individuals in Texas have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of...
Criminal Counts Dismissed Against 3 Employees in Missouri Duck Boat Deaths
Dec 7 2020 // A federal judge has dismissed neglect and misconduct charges against three employees of a tourist boat that sank on a Missouri lake in 2018, killing 17 people. U.S. District Judge Doug Harpool filed an order on Dec. 2...
California Workers’ Comp Attorney Arrested for $310K Fraud Scheme
Dec 4 2020 // Moses Luna, 73, of Newport Beach, Calif., was arrested this week on 20 felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly billing 20 separate insurance companies for translation and interpreting services to collect over...
California Roof Company Owner Arraigned In $4M Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Dec 2 2020 // Judy Hein, 71, of Oxnard, Calif., was arraigned on five felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly underreporting payroll for her Simi Valley roofing business by over $4 million, resulting in more than a $2 million...
Former Tesla Employee Settles Over Theft of Trade Secrets, False Claims to Media
Dec 2 2020 // A former Tesla Inc. factory employee will pay Elon Musk’s electric car maker $400,000 after it accused him of tipping reporters about alleged production inefficiencies and delays, a court filing shows. The payment by...
Insuring Cyber Podcast Episode 3: Underneath ‘the Tip of the A.I. Iceberg’ in Insurance
Dec 2 2020 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Nearly 75% of respondents in a recent survey from the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud and Shift Technology said they believe that among relevant technology, artificial intelligence (A.I.)...
Trumps Want Court to Approve Arbitration for Marketing Fraud Lawsuit
Dec 2 2020 // A lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to halt a lawsuit accusing the U.S. president of exploiting his family name to promote a marketing scam targeting poor and working-class people. The...
Minnesota Fraud Bureau: Insurance Fraud Referrals Up in 2019 but not for Agents
Nov 24 2020 // While Minnesota insurance regulators saw an uptick in the number of fraud case referrals during 2019, agent and broker fraud referrals were down significantly that year, the most recent for which insurance fraud statistics...
Former Virginia Attorney Indicted on Multiple Fraud Charges
Nov 24 2020 // A federal grand jury has indicted a former Virginia attorney on charges that she defrauded elderly clients out of money which she used to buy real estate and make charitable donations, prosecutors said. Cherie Anne...
