USAA discovered the address for the rental property did not exist, SLED said. After providing an alternate address, an investigation uncovered that Adams had not entered any lease agreement to rent the property. Read more:

The reimbursement was reportedly supposed to cover the man's expenses for renting a temporary property until work was complete, the warrant states, but USAA reviewed the claim and found "multiple concerns."

Warrants allege Adams filed an invoice for reimbursement totaling over $8,500 with USAA, claiming his home was uninhabitable during renovations for a covered property insurance claim.

Charleston man accused of forgery in $8,500 insurance claim Stephen Andrew Adams faces charges of forgery valued less than $10,000 and presenting a false claim for insurance payment valued more than $2,000 but less than $10,000 after an investigation

The letter, however, was fabricated by Okolo – he wrote it and copied and pasted the client’s genuine signature from another document. Read more:

The jury also found Okolo guilty of obstructing justice. In May 2025, after being charged with insurance fraud for the acts above, Okolo disclosed a letter purportedly written and signed by the client, intending to have it admitted in evidence at his upcoming trial.

Okolo was found to have misappropriated a client’s funds twice, intended for life insurance and annuity policy premiums. After the client gave Okolo two incomplete checks totaling $36,500, Okolo illegally made them payable to his own business, deposited them into his own account

Michael C. Okolo, 68, of Parkville, Maryland, was found guilty of two counts of insurance fraud and one count of obstruction of justice.

An investigator contacted the emergency rooms corresponding to each incident, and the healthcare facilities reported that they had no medical records for the treatment dates. Read more:

The claims included fraudulent medical records for seven accidental injuries or falls, seven animal bites, three bee or wasp stings, two incidents of fingers caught in doors, two injuries from moving furniture, and five injuries from car accidents.

Dunnell allegedly made accidental injury claims between April 2023 and July 2024, claiming that she and her children had been treated in emergency rooms on 27 different occasions over that time period.

This fraudster found out that fraud always catches up to you, no matter what. Chloe English Dunnell was arrested on Friday on two felony charges related to allegedly filing fraudulent insurance claims, resulting in a loss to the insurance company of over $10,000.

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It is further alleged that Bucko overcharged municipalities and failed to file Michigan income tax returns from 2021 to 2023. Read more:

The alleged scheme relied on using premium payments from new clients to replace and fund previous accounts. Bucko reportedly owed more than $400,000 to the insurer in unpaid premiums when the alleged scheme was discovered.

Bucko allegedly collected full insurance premiums from eight municipalities but only remitted a quarter or one-half of the premiums to the insurer, embezzling the remaining funds for his own personal use.

Insurance agent charged with forging client Documents, embezzling municipal funds Robert Joseph Bucko, who owned and operated the Stevenson Company insurance agency, was arraigned on Oct. 31 for allegedly forging letters from his insurance clients to embezzle funds.