A 37-year-old Iowa woman has been sentenced to federal prison for lying about 2008 flood damage in Cedar Rapids. Federal prosecutors say Emily Protsman on Wednesday was given 18 months behind bars and five years of supervised release once she …
Two Southeast Texas men have been charged with submitting bogus invoices to steal from government recovery programs after 2005’s Hurricane Rita. A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday in Beaumont names Tony Lynn Thornton Sr. and Anthony Welborn Jones, both of Kountze. …
As victims of Superstorm Sandy pick up the pieces of their lives and insurers wade through thousands of claims, industry and public officials are raising concerns about fraud. Since the storm, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has issued two …
Two people have been sentenced to prison for fraudulently obtaining federal disaster benefits after a deadly tornado hit Joplin, Mo., in May 2011. Fifty-one-year-old Wanda G. McBride of Joplin was ordered Friday to spend six months in federal prison without …
A Mississippi man has pleaded not guilty to three federal crimes charging him with fraudulently obtaining more than $97,000 for a house he claimed was his primary residence when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Anthony L. Bryan was in U.S. …
A Joplin, Mo., woman has admitted to trying to fraudulently receive federal disaster aid after the May 2011 tornado. Prosecutors say 22-year-old Amber Nicole Peters pleaded guilty Tuesday to disaster fraud. Peters admitted she falsely claimed that her home and …