Former insurance agent Stuart Alan Starr of One Stop Insurance Agency pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud in April 2019. Starr’s brother, Glen Wayne Starr pled guilty to the conspiracy to commit...
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10 Unlicensed Workers Arrested in Fraud Sting
July 2, 2019
Florida Department of Financial Services and the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office launched ‘Operation Stonewall,’ a three-day fraud sting to catch contractors allegedly agreeing to perform work without the required...
Twelve Miami-Dade County Public Schools bus workers (both current and former) have been arrested for allegedly submitting $426,933 in fraudulent insurance using children’s information. Fraud detectives found that the bus...
Scott Novick, owner of pain clinics in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison and forfeit almost $1.4 to Medicare. Novick pled guilty to conspiracy to commit health-care fraud resulting...
According to WINK News of Fort Myers, FL, twenty-four people are accusing Campbell Roofing and Sheet Metal of Cape Coral of taking deposits for roofing jobs, starting the work and abandoning the jobs. In some cases, the...
According to Florida Chief Financial Officer Patronis, “In 2018, there were 9,300 pedestrian crashes and of those, an estimated 25 percent were staged.” Click here to read the article....
Miami Woman Facing 47 Charges in Insurance Fraud Scheme
June 20, 2019
Shanequa Veal, alleged “ringleader” of an insurance fraud scheme, is facing 47 charges for these crimes. Veal is being accused of submitting about $357,000 in doctored insurance claims for herself and other people,...
Arcadia Man Arrested and Charged with Insurance Fraud
June 19, 2019
Frank David Berry III of Arcadia was arrested and charged with insurance fraud after an investigation by State Department of Financial Services, Division of Investigative and Forensic Services. A man in a van backed out of a...
Kissimmee elementary school teacher, Lanfranco Palman, is facing three felony charges for allegedly faking being hit by a car to defraud his insurance company. The staged accident occurred at a grocery store in 2016 where...
Sarasota law enforcement partnered with the Sarasota County Building Department, the Florida Department of Financial Services Division of Insurance Fraud and the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation on a...