A former insurance agency operator in Bedford, New Hampshire, has pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud in connection with defrauding business clients. Prosecutors say from October 2001 to September 2003, 54-year-old Raymond Douville, also known as Raye Ellen …
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long reported that Kenneth Rick Morrow of Marion, a licensed insurance agent, was arrested last week and charged with nine counts of embezzlement, nine counts of obtaining property by false pretense, and eight counts of …
An ex-business partner of former San Francisco 49ers kicker Ray Wersching has been sentenced to three years and three months in prison for insurance fraud. Mary Ann Locke was sentenced last week to 39 months in prison and ordered to …
An ex-business partner of former San Francisco 49ers kicker Ray Wersching has been sentenced to three years and three months in prison for insurance fraud. Mary Ann Locke was also ordered to repay $8.3 million she embezzled from Farmers Insurance …
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that bail bond agents Joaquin Gracilazo Cruz and Isaac Trevino were arrested in connection with suspected fraud. Cruz was charged with 19 felony counts including embezzlement, false imprisonment, attempted extortion and hiring unauthorized bounty …
According to a recent investigative series in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, between 1.9 and 2.7 million felony fugitives (including rapists and murderers) have eluded capture by crossing state lines. Post-Dispatch reporters found a persistent problem with outstanding warrants across the …
Another person has acknowledged his role in an alleged scheme to steal federal money intended for reconstruction of a tribal school at Stephan that was damaged by fire in 2005. Brady Hastings of Huron pleaded guilty in federal court in …
A California mortgage banker whose business failed a year ago amid the housing collapse and is facing a fraud and embezzlement lawsuit by former branch managers is now leading the industry’s effort to lobby Congress for the $700 billion Wall …
A Walpole, Mass. lawyer has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty in a scam to inflate medical bills to insurance companies. Personal injury lawyer Bruce Namenson entered guilty pleas last week to multiple charges of motor …
Insurance broker, Prakash Akatrai, aka Peter Akatrai, surrendered himself at the Downey, Calif., Police Station and was booked on six counts of felony grand theft by embezzlement, according to the California Department of Insurance. Akatrai allegedly issued a false certificate …