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Cancer victim admits fraud

Couple plead guilty in disability case as man used wife’s Social Security number to hide income Friday, May 27, 2005 Mobile Register By BRENDAN KIRBY Staff Reporter Stricken with throat cancer, Herman Joe Smith could not even speak as he entered his guilty plea Thursday on federal fraud charges, nodding his head in response to Cancer victim admits fraud

State Fund Seminar On Workers’ Compensation Fraud Draws Kern County Employers

Thursday May 19, 6:47 pm ET BAKERSFIELD, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire/ — As part of its commitment to fight workers’ compensation insurance fraud, State Fund held a seminar May 18 at the Valley Plaza’s Pacific Theatre where more than 200 Kern County employers heard State Fund and law enforcement officials outline a problem that robs State Fund Seminar On Workers’ Compensation Fraud Draws Kern County Employers

CALI DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE FRAUD INVESTIGATION REVEALS FORMER HIGHLAND FRAMERS OWNERS SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS IN PRISON AND 3 MILLION RESTITUTION

By California Department of Insurance May 23, 2005, 06:41 Email this article Printer friendly page Owner’s son (a co-owner) sentenced to felony probation and $300,000 restitution ALAMEDA COUNTY – Investigators announced yesterday that Jay Neal Wright, 52, a former Bay Area businessman and owner of Highland Framers of Northern California, Inc., was formally sentenced in CALI DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE FRAUD INVESTIGATION REVEALS FORMER HIGHLAND FRAMERS OWNERS SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS IN PRISON AND 3 MILLION RESTITUTION

Michigan Police Crack Down on Car Theft

SALINA ALI Detroit Free Press via the Associated Press Outside a suspected vehicle chop shop in the 10600 block of Stratman on Detroit’s east side, law enforcement officials prepared Thursday to search the dwelling. “I saw a blind move in the window upstairs,” said Jo Ann Rottenbucher, a probation supervisor from the Michigan Department of Michigan Police Crack Down on Car Theft

Information and Identify Theft Legislation Impairs Industry’s Ability to Support Judicial and Legal System

BALTIMORE, May 20 /PRNewswire/ — The National Council of Investigation and Security Services (NCISS), the nation’s largest association for investigation and security services companies, is working with Congress to prevent any unintended damage to the court system and commerce caused by overly broad regulatory language meant to protect personal identification information. “We support the protection Information and Identify Theft Legislation Impairs Industry’s Ability to Support Judicial and Legal System

Funeral Insurance Claims End in Conviction

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Roger Newman, of Springfield MO, the once director of the Newman Funeral Home in Unionville MO was sentenced to 33 months in prison for collecting funeral insurance on fifty nine people who were found to still be alive. He was further ordered to over 410000 dollars in restitution to three insurance companies.

Minn Blue Cross Fraud Investigations Save $3 Million in 2004 Rent a Patient Scam Dwindles

ST. PAUL, Minn., May 17 /PRNewswire/ — Through aggressive health care fraud investigations and coordination among other states’ Blue Cross plans, the Blue Cross Special Investigations Unit (SIU) stopped payment on more than $3 million of suspect claims last year, reducing the impact of fraud on premiums in Minnesota. By comparison, Blue Cross stopped $8.7 Minn Blue Cross Fraud Investigations Save $3 Million in 2004 Rent a Patient Scam Dwindles

Spotting insurance fraud pays off in VA

Four Virginia residents recently discovered that it pays to have a sharp eye for suspected insurance fraud. According to a spokesman for the Insurance Fraud Program of the Virginia State Police, the first rewards for reporting suspected insurance fraud were paid during April. The Sharp Eye Reward Fund pays up to $25,000 for information leading Spotting insurance fraud pays off in VA

Nashville TN police trap car thieves

By Bill Harless, bharless@nashvillecitypaper.com May 06, 2005 Taking a two-sided approach to preventing auto thefts, the Metro Police Department is using bait cars to trap would-be thieves and occasionally issuing tickets to drivers who leave their cars unattended with keys in the ignition. Describing one of the bait cars, which is left sitting empty with Nashville TN police trap car thieves