Thirty-eight reports have been filed with Memphis, Tenn. authorities by the Mid-South Red Cross after an internal audit revealed $75,000 in thefts involving scams in which people attempted to claim money meant for Hurricane Katrina victims. Memphis police are investigating …
Terry Lee Villers of Wirt County, W.Va. has been sentenced to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. Villers was sentenced Dec. 16 in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County to two terms …
A multimillion-dollar construction defects award was erased by a unanimous Nevada Supreme Court decision that held the case had been improperly given class-action status by a lower court judge. The high court ruling favors Beazer Homes Holding Corp. and went …
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 …
Fraud Roundup Ventura County, Calif., District Attorney Gregory Totten reported that the office’s Consumer and Environmental Protection Division recently obtained two convictions for violation of the California Contractors State Licensing Laws. On Dec. 13, 2005, Manuel Francisco Galan was placed …
A St. George, Utah, man who faked his death on Pine Valley Mountain last summer and then fled to Australia pleaded guilty to one count of conducting a false or fraudulent scheme to obtain fees or services, a second-degree felony. …
A Southern California man was found guilty of federal fraud charges for bilking the customers of Employers Mutual LLC, which purported to provide healthcare coverage to more than 20,000 people nationwide, but left more than $20 million in unpaid claims …
Todd Graves, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, reported that a former Kansas City, Mo., police officer pleaded guilty in federal court recently to a scheme to collect insurance on a fraudulent stolen car claim. Michael J. Galley, …
Governor Bob Taft’s lowest point, a conviction on ethics charges, topped the list of the state’s most noteworthy stories of 2005 according to the Associated Press story. Taft, serving his second four-year term, pleaded no contest in August to failing …
A Des Moines doctor and his brother are accused of health care fraud for allegedly seeking reimbursement on medical procedures that were unnecessary or not performed. Dr. Peter Boesen, 45, and his brother, James Boesen, 48, are charged in a …
