A St. Petersburg, Fla., couple and a relative are facing felony insurance fraud charges after investigators determined they collected $39,000 in insurance from a staged automobile accident. Azem Jakupaj, his wife, Fikreta, and Edin Muratovic were charged with insurance fraud …
Florida prosecutors have dropped charges against a Hobe Sound, Fla., man accused of being the lead suspect in a $700,000 scam that targeted seniors by cashing in their insurance annuities. John F. Cushman was accused of working with an unknown …
Gregory Van Tatenhove, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Karl Stankovic, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, Louisville Field Division, jointly announced that a Federal Grand Jury in Lexington returned an …
An Indian River County. Fla., jury found a former county employee not guilty on charges of workers’ compensation fraud, perjury in an official proceeding and third-degree grand theft. Ernest Rider of Falls Creek, Pa., a heavy-equipment operator, filed a notice …
Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced the arrests of 14 individuals in Tampa–including a former sheriff’s deputy–for patient brokering. The patients were “sold” to at least seven medical clinics for up to $1,000 each. Most of the patients were …
Starting Feb. 24, investigators from the California Department of Insurance’s Fraud Division conducted joint operations in the Central Valley to execute outstanding arrest warrants. CDI partnered with the Fresno District Attorney’s Office, Fresno Police Department, and the Tulare County District …
The Washington Department of Labor and Industries has put Skanska USA Building Inc. on notice that it will lose its certificate to self-insure if it doesn’t improve the way it manages workers’ compensation insurance claims. In addition to the “corrective …
Carlos Vasquez-Marquez and Jose Miguel (Mike) Marquez, of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., have been arrested and charged with seven felony counts of grand theft. The arrests are the result of a 20-month investigation conducted by CDI. The investigation found that …
A former Shreveport, La., insurance producer was arrested and issued a cease and desist order for allegedly misappropriating insurance funds, according to Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Robert Wooley. John Michael Guevara was arrested by the State Police Fraud Unit and …
The Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit reported it recently closed a month long investigation with the arrests of three Concordia Parish individuals. Michell Warren of Vidalia, Milton Cupstid of Ferriday and Fred Taylor of Vidalia were charged with one …
