Oct 01, 2010
Five local auto insurance adjusters were arrested by the Hialeah Police Department for their involvement in a scheme to defraud the same insurance companies that employed them. The adjusters are ac...
Sep 13, 2010
A local woman entered into a guilty plea to Medicare fraud in United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Flor Crislongo pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit heal...
Aug 23, 2010
Doral has recently been with a flurry of large ticket property crimes such as burglary and grand theft which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of losses to victims. Recently, offenders opened t...
Aug 10, 2010
The federal government is getting ready to once again increase their efforts to eradicate or at least reduce Medicare fraud. The federal government is getting ready to once again increase their eff...
Jul 26, 2010
Four South Florida residents were found guilty by a jury on mortgage fraud charges. The mortgage fraud scheme resulted in losses to the former Wachovia Bank in excess of $800,000. Government prosec...
Jul 16, 2010
Federal law enforcement authorities charged 94 people with Medicare fraud. Those charged are accused of filing fraudulent claims with the publically funded healthcare program. Of the 94 people indi...
Jul 15, 2010
Despite the effort, man power, and millions of dollars being thrown at Medicare fraud, the federal government does not have an answer to the problem. South Florida and Miami Medicare fraud cases co...
Jul 14, 2010
A defendant is alleged to have attached illegal scanners to automated teller machines in order to steal account information and rip-off tens of thousands of dollars. Mihal Arnautu, a Romanian natio...
Jul 05, 2010
Several current and former Broward County police officers and one FBI agent have all been charged in a mortgage fraud indictment. The criminal defense lawyer representing one of the officers stated...
Jun 30, 2010
The operations director for the National Insurance Crime Bureau says the epidemic of insurance fraud and staged accidents has taken the lead in Tampa, Florida. Staged accident cases arise when indi...
Jun 28, 2010
As a result of the near depression in 2008, federal, state and local law enforcement have continued their effort to quell the fraudulent mortgage application and closing practices that have existed...
Jun 24, 2010
The Florida legislature has increased the requirements for mortgage brokers who apply or seek to renew their licenses. The legislature enacted the law in an effort to curb the ongoing problem of mo...
Jun 18, 2010
The federal government is once again attacking the mortgage fraud problem that brought this nation's economy to its knees. A large-scale multi-agency investigation into mortgage fraud netted 86 peo...
Jun 14, 2010
A former lawyer appeared in federal court last week for his sentencing hearing. All of South Florida has been following this case since the investigation began regarding Scott Rothstein's multi-mil...
