A third conspirator has been sentenced to prison for her participation in a Florida check-cashing scheme that used shell companies to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and workers’ compensation insurers out of millions of dollars in payroll taxes and workers’ …
Georgia authorities last week announced the arrest of a contractor charged with underreporting payroll and defrauding Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. of more than $9 million in premiums. Jose Martinez, 56, of Grayson, was charged with insurance fraud after an investigation …
The defendants in the corruption case involving U.S. Senator Robert Menendez include a former New Jersey insurance broker who was convicted of premium fraud in 2011 and lost his insurance license. Jose Uribe allegedly got involved with Menendez in his …
A drywall contractor has been sentenced to six months in jail for defrauding the New York State Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund out of almost $3 million in premiums over an eight-year period. The Manhattan District Attorney announced the sentence this …
A US Treasury Department unit that investigates financial crimes has directed banks to send alerts when they come across suspicious activity that indicates a business is using check cashing companies to avoid payroll taxes and reduce workers’ compensation premiums. Such …
There will be a jury retrial on allocation of liability in a New Jersey workers’ compensation premium fraud case won by Liberty Insurance Corp. against a construction firm. The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a trial court erred …
Wei Wen Wu, 54, and Feng Wen Lam, 49, both of Arcadia, California, were charged with 43 felony counts of insurance fraud, grand theft, and conspiracy after allegedly underreporting nearly $4.5 million in employee payroll. The scheme reportedly fraudulently reduced …
The owner of a Revere, Mass.-based contracting company has been indicted in connection with a workers’ compensation insurance fraud scheme, according to Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. Anner Valentin Amaya of Revere, Mass., was indicted by a Suffolk County Grand …
A Travis County district court sentenced Anthony Stokes and Mario Williams of Little Elm, Texas for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, reported Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Stokes and Williams were sentenced to one year deferred adjudication and ordered to pay $41,844 …
A Travis County grand jury indicted G&M Construction and Glenda Gail Miller Howell on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Company. G&M Construction was a road repair contractor that performed crack seal operations and sign erection for …