A Livermore Falls, Maine, woman prosecutors say offered $4,000 to burn down her convenience store so she could collect the insurance money has pleaded guilty. Erica Poland-Rolfe was sentenced Monday to serve 90 days of a two-year prison sentence after …
A Cleveland man pleaded guilty to fraud after investigators with the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) caught him on video working as a tow truck driver while he was supposed to be off work recovering from a workplace injury. …
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt says a Muskogee builder pleaded guilty to 13 felony counts related to fraudulent home construction and is to pay $82,000 in restitution. A judge sentenced 36-year-old Jason Priest to two years in prison with 13 …
A former Prairieville, La., resident is accused of stealing more than $215,000 from workers’ compensation cases and a service firm that managed those cases for insurance companies. Assistant U.S. Attorney Cam T. Le said in a court filing that Cynthia …
The owner of an East Texas methadone clinic has pleaded guilty to trying to have a competitor’s business torched and then seeking to have a co-defendant killed. Prosecutors in Tyler say 43-year-old Edwards Jacobs on Tuesday pleaded guilty to attempted …
The 30-year-old Greensburg, La., man accused of killing seven people in a May 30 head-on collision pleaded guilty to seven counts of vehicular homicide Monday before a state district judge and a crowded courtroom audience. State District Judge William G. …
A Denham Springs, La., man has pleaded guilty to participating in a plot that federal prosecutors say defrauded two life insurance companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Advocate reports that 34-year-old Timothy Schlatre faces up to 30 …
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange says BP’s decision to plead guilty to criminal charges related to the Gulf oil spill strengthens the state’s standing in pursuing a civil case. Strange said there different standards in criminal and civil cases. But …
A 27-year-old North Carolina man who’s part owner of an auto parts business is pleading guilty to selling thousands of counterfeit airbags. Igor Borodin of Indian Hill pleaded guilty Monday and faces up to 15 years in prison and $2 …
Two Livingston Parish, La., residents have pleaded guilty in a mail fraud scheme involving more than $100 million in life insurance policies and hundreds of thousands of dollars in commissions. Jason Paul Austin and Dena A. Gaudet pleaded guilty Tuesday …