TARGET: LIFE INSURERS By Kimberly B. Face, Staff Gone are the days of costly divorces. Gone are the days of “I’m dying; …
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February 19, 2014
Sylvia Mitchell did not let ‘a simple little problem get in the way of her marriage to 85year-old Andrew Vlasto of Las …
February 17, 2014
The accusations are damning. Michael, Keen is alleged to have gone boating in November, 1981, with his pregnant wife, Anita, and his …
February 16, 2014
It could have been worse … way worse. Francois C. Maisonneuve could have been sentenced to five years in jail and fined …
November 26, 2013
RECIPE FOR FRAUD The recipe requires a heavy dose of real live customers recruited as policy buyers, however in this particular scam …
August 12, 2013
[color-box color=”gray”]No one will dispute that, given the risks involved, a soldier’s paycheck is on the low side. No one will dispute …
August 1, 2013
WE MAY INDEED BE DOOMED — THREE CALLS THE CHARM By Anonymous Beginning Blood Pressure: 115/72. First Call: To an A+ Best’s …
August 1, 2013
It might not have a lot to do with insurance fraud, however as responsible reporters the Editors of The John Cooke Fraud …
August 1, 2013
There was a terrible tragedy in Mark Center, Ohio, in November, 2003. A ten year old boy accidentally shot his own father …
May 1, 2013
The amount of insurance fraud estimated to be occurring in India’s $70 billion dollar a year insurance market is approaching 10 percent …
May 1, 2013
By Leslie Kim In the July/August 1995 issue of The John Cooke Fraud Report, the front page article was entitled, “Inside the …
January 24, 2013
Angela Tucker Barnes was stabbed at least seven times in the back, throat and face. She was buried late in 1983. She …
January 15, 2013
By Leslie Kim The initial contact was by e-mail: from a keyboard in Israel to my computer screen in Southern California in …
January 13, 2013
Editor’s Note: In response to our recent JCIFR article on Viaticals, we received the following additional information from Gloria Wolk, a national …
By Barry Zalma, of course The Hungarian owned and operated a Board and Care facility for the aged in Carson City, Nevada. …
January 5, 2013
While the California Holocause Insurance Settlement Alliance (CHISA) has not resorted to the word fraud, the allegations in this ongoing saga are …
January 5, 2013
This issue was hot enough two years ago for the John Cooke Insurance Fraud Report to run a front page story. At …
January 5, 2013
Ten years ago, no one had heard of a Viatical. The concept had not yet been born. People who had cancer just …
January 5, 2013
On August 23, 1996, Glendale businessman Pierre Lebon Hoffman called 911 for help. He said that he came downstairs in the morning …
January 3, 2013
By Susan E. Clarke Staff Writer In a rather unique scam, criminals are purchasing life policies on beggars, peasants and prostitutes and …
January 3, 2013
Bobbi Jo Womack was just 18 when she died. The young woman, who had both physical and mental disabilities, was living with …
January 3, 2013
In May of 1991, Thongkam Somsanuk purchased a $500,000 life insurance policy from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office in Alexandria, …
January 3, 2013
By Barbara Clark Suicide is the ninth leading cause of death in the United States: on the average, one person dies by …
December 30, 2012
Senitila Taylor was described by one attorney as “death waiting to happen.” Although only 22 years old, she suffered from a heart …
December 30, 2012
Bobbi Jo Womack was just 18 when she died. The young woman, who had both physical and mental disabilities, was living with …
December 29, 2012
By Susan E. Clarke Coleman Allen died of heart failure and hypertension on April 6, 1996. While his family and friends may …
December 29, 2012
It had all the twists and turns of a grade B movie. Husband and kids go away for a day, mysterious …
December 29, 2012
By Lee S. Cole Tony Barrajas was a carpet layer. His work took him all over the upper area of the …
December 29, 2012
By D. Michael Bush Albert MacKenzie was honored as the deputy district attorney of the year in Los Angeles. Presiding California Chief …
December 29, 2012
Her name is Maria del Socorro Rodriguez and, if a man is smart, he’ll run away from the alter as fast as …
December 29, 2012
It could have been worse … way worse. Francois C. Maisonneuve could have been sentenced to five years in jail and fined …
December 29, 2012
The story started barely two years ago, in October 1993. It began when a MONY salesman sold a $730,900 life insurance policy …
December 29, 2012
A Michigan woman, Annie Lee Cole, was recently sentenced to life in prison for her part in a 1994 plot to murder …
December 29, 2012
Difficulties continue for the troubled United Republic Life Insurance Co., a Utah insurance company that was seized by the Utah Insurance Department …
December 28, 2012
While Sam the Accelerant Sniffing Fire Dog (see The John Cooke Fraud Report, July/August 1994 issue) is an indisputably fine tool …
December 28, 2012
By Miles A. Hebding For many years, there have been reports of fraudulent death claims originating in foreign countries utilizing forged documents …
December 28, 2012
The story is reminiscent of the famed Winchester House. The stairs usually lead to nowhere, the halls go around in circles and …
Dr. H. H. Holmes began his public criminal career in the ‘80’s in Chicago. He amassed a large amount of money through …
December 26, 2012
Once in awhile a story comes across my desk in which I have a personal stake. It doesn’t happen often, but coming …
December 26, 2012
It took jurors only three hours to convict Marguerite Bork of Second degree murder. She’s facing 25 years to life in prison …
January 1, 1997
David Crist was born in 1958; Scott Crist, in 1959. They were raised in a stone and shingle house in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. …