A federal trial is underway for a former St. Louis, Missouri alderman accused of defrauding an insurance company while in office. Brandon Bosley is charged with orchestrating a fraud scheme to obtain money from his insurance company by falsely inflating the cost of repairs to a vehicle he was driving. Federal prosecutors have alleged that […]
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Hedging, Corresp. and Broker, Servicing, Quality Management, Fraud Prevention Products While rumors swirl that Jerome Powell is paying his own legal bills while dealing with the DOJ, and the Administration is ruminating on using 401(k) or 529 funds to buy a home, in the land of “concrete news” the office-to-apartment and condo conversion
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Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced a Sedgwick county man has been sentenced to 24 months of probation for insurance and identity fraud. Marquez Gails, age 43, pleaded guilty on January 9, 2026, in Sedgwick County District Court to one felony count of fraudulent insurance act and one felony count of identity theft. Gails fraudulently
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Cristal Gale Kastantin, of Wheatland, Iowa, was arrested on January 3, 2026, on outstanding arrest warrants for committing insurance fraud, the Iowa Insurance Division announced. Kastantin was charged with one count of Ongoing Criminal Conduct (Class B Felony), one count of Theft 1st Degree (Class C Felony), one count of Theft 2nd Degree (Class D
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Trump administration says it is creating new DOJ division to tackle fraud
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A federal judge sentenced a Pembroke Pines insurance broker to almost three years in prison and millions of dollars in restitution for leading a scheme that fraudulently enrolled thousands of people—many of them homeless—in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans. Dafud Iza, formerly vice president of Fiorella Insurance Agency, in Stuart, pleaded guilty in April
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AI, 2nds, Servicing Tools; Wire Fraud Scheme; MISMO Changes; Thoughts on Affordability As it turns out, not everyone has a loan on their house. In fact, 40 percent of U.S. homes don’t have a mortgage, per the Census Bureau. Should I repeat that? 40%. (Here’s a nice map with state-level information.) What are
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A United States Postal Service employee has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly collecting augmented workers’ compensation benefits to which she was not entitled, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Illinois announced last month. Graciela Venegas, 66, began receiving workers’ compensation benefits in 2012 for an injury she sustained in the performance
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Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt this week announced a Sedgwick county man has been sentenced to 18 months of probation for insurance fraud. Shawn Gales, age 37, pleaded guilty on December 18, 2025, in Sedgwick County District Court to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Act, a level 8 Nonperson Felony and one count of Interference
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A Fort Worth business owner who received nearly $5 million from local customers for unfinished custom home building and remodeling projects pled guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy charge on Dec. 30, 2025, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould. Court records reflect that Christopher Judge and his wife, Raquelle
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