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An insurance agent confessed to conning more than $64,000 from a Grand Folks, N.D., business, according to a media report.
Six Orange County, Calif., family members were arrested for allegedly stealing $1.5 million through a workers’ compensation scheme, authorities allege.
Authorities charged 44 people alleged to be members of an Armenian-American crime group that “put the traditional Mafia to shame” with participating in what is believed to be the largest U.S. Medicare fraud scheme.
An Elmore County, Ala., tax return preparer was indicted in Alabama for allegedly using people’s personal information to steal $53,000 in tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service.
Twin sisters from Clinton, Miss., were arrested on insurance fraud charges for allegedly fraudulent medical claim and insurance claim forms to obtain benefits for a number of crashes and other incidents, the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office reported.
A Brooklyn, N.Y., insurance broker pleaded guilty to mail fraud in federal court in connection with a scheme using incorrect addresses to obtain lower auto insurance rates.
Two sisters from Durham, N.C., have been charged with embezzling nearly $19,000 through alleged insurance fraud.
A Bronx, N.Y., man, his mother and his former co-worker were indicted for allegedly stealing $488,000 in unemployment benefits by creating false businesses and using others’ identities to collect unemployment benefits from Massachusetts.
A former Ward 7 advisory neighborhood commissioner in Washington, D.C., was convicted by a jury of six felony counts in connection with his receiving of nearly $33,000 in false insurance benefits.
An insurance agent from Mobile, Ala., pleaded guilty in federal court to fraudulently enrolling four nursing home residents for insurance coverage so she could pocket $3,800 in commissions.

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