Satellite Images Used to Detect Crop Fraud When thinking of satellite images most think of in terms of space exploration, but not as showing up in courtrooms to help prosecutors prove crop insurance fraud. Now the Agriculture Department’s Risk Management …
Matthew Muller, 35, a resident of Akron, Ohio, was sentenced to a year in prison for insurance fraud for burying his dead BMW and collecting $20,000 for the car he reported stolen. The car had been buried by Muller in …
Former South Dakota Agent Faces 60 Years in Prison for Fraud Associated Press account. Wingler was scheduled to go to trial but he decided in court to change his plea to guilty to six of the 13 charges against him. …
Roofer To Pay Calif. State Fund $117,000 A San Joaquin County, Calif., Superior Court Judge has ordered Lodi,Calif., resident Joseph C. Campbell, 39, to pay $117,000 in restitution to California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund, as a result of his conviction …
Fraud Roundup When thinking of satellite images most think of in terms of space exploration, but not as showing up in courtrooms to help prosecutors prove crop insurance fraud. Now the Agriculture Department’s Risk Management Agency is using the technology …
A doctor has pleaded not guilty to charges of bilking insurance companies by arranging unneeded surgeries with the cooperation of patients. Dr. Mamdouh Bahna, 58, who entered his plea in federal court, was taken into custody Jan. 1, Assistant U.S. …
A Florida corporation and its owner selling fraudulent contracts for home health care services to senior Floridians has been sued by Attorney General Charlie Crist. Clearwater-based Intrust Home Care and its president, Roy F. Fitzgerald, are accused of taking more …
A Miami man is facing more than 48 felony charges after surrendering to insurance fraud detectives with the Department of Financial Services investigating the theft of nearly $1 million in a 2002 mortgage transaction. The diversion led to foreclosure of …
An agreement has been reached between Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and Quality Plus Restoration, a Houston, Texas-based water extraction company, settles allegations of fraudulent business practices, including price gouging, following Hurricane Ivan in 2004. The settlement will remove liens …
Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo announced that oral surgeon Robert Michael Clear was sentenced to three years in prison on felony Medicaid fraud charges. The Jefferson Circuit Court sentence was probated for five years on the condition that Clear pay …
