Dupage Prosecutor Foils Flimsy Fake Death Claims

There are some things people just shouldn’t do for money. Telling someone that close relatives have died when you know they are still alive and well is indeed one of those things. And Bridgette Buckner is learning this the hard way. According to the Daily Herald, the Barlett woman was in...

July 2nd, 2011 | 2, Insurance Fraud | Read More

$100 Million Fraud Trial Gets Underway

A huge fraud scam involving a hundred million dollars, hundreds of people and a Texas businessman has been under review in a Virginia federal court in recent days. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, a federal prosecutor noted on June 7th that Adley Abdulwahab, of Spring, Texas, told numerous lies in...

June 10th, 2011 | Insurance Fraud, s | Read More

TN Man Denied New Trial After Convicted of Killing Wife

In February, lawyers stated that Dale Larkin killed his wife, Teri Larkin, back in November of 2003 in a bathtub. He was apparently trying to obtain her life insurance payout. The jury believed them. According to an article on TriCities.com from when the trial took place four months ago, on February...

June 6th, 2011 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

$50 Million in Life Insurance Issued to Fake Billionaire

How long does it take a “billionaire” to fall from grace? For Gilbert Eastin, the self-proclaimed 144th richest man in the world, it took about three years. The West Bloomfield man claimed to be worth more than $2.5 billion, which would have placed 144th on the Forbes list of richest Americans, nestled...

June 2nd, 2011 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Marine Charged with Murder-for-Hire Scheme

Movies sometimes focus around murder-for-hire schemes. When it happens in real life however, it’s just plain sad. Samuel Alexander Wilson, a Camp Pendleton Marine from Ohio, was arrested for what prosecutors are describing as a murder-for-hire plot that ended in the shooting death of his 20-year-old...

May 4th, 2011 | 4, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Indiana Woman Found Guilty of Insurance Fraud and Murder

Tami Duvall was accused of murdering her husband back in August of 2007 by poisoning his dessert with morphine and muscle relaxants. The jury in her trial began deliberating at about 9am yesterday morning, the 10th day of the trial, after hearing final instructions from the judge. Six hours later they...

April 21st, 2011 | s, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Couples’ Take on ‘Till Death Do Us Part’

When someone buys a life insurance policy, it is assumed that it will be used once a spouse or family member passes away –possibly to pay for the funeral or for expenses left behind by the deceased. It’s a whole different story when it comes to Vij Misir however; he didn’t even have to die for...

April 4th, 2011 | s, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

CO Man Aquitted on Murder Charges, Gets Time for Fraud

A Colorado Springs man is in trouble with the law again; this time for attempting to collect life-insurance after the shooting death of his father two years ago. Did we mention that he was the one on trial for his father’s murder? According to The Record, in December, William Silvi was acquitted in...

February 28th, 2011 | 2, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Shocking Murder For Insurance Scheme Ends With 3 Convictions

After deliberating for nearly 12 hours, a federal jury convicted David Samuels, Charles Moss and Jermaine Surtain for their roles in several insurance fraud schemes including one murder-plot carried out on a man for his insurance benefits according to The New Orleans Net. “The Samuels siblings and...

January 25th, 2011 | s, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Sex, Lies, Murder for Insurance…

From what can only be described as something straight out of a movie, the federal government began it’s prosecution of case against former lovers, family members and other accomplices tangled in a complex web of conspiracy, insurance fraud, arson and murder. Assistant US Attorney, Bill McSherry, broke...

January 18th, 2011 | 2, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

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