Fraudcraft
Join host Teena every week as she takes you into the world of FraudcraftTM, the billion-dollar underground economy created inside the industry of commercial insurance, most notably, California workers’ compensation, by the tradecraft of fraud syndicatesTM, their predatory tactics against people who they hook, buy & sell like human cash crops in capping schemes.
Each week you’ll get in-depth discussions and interviews with other subject matter experts, thought leaders and angel disruptors, business owners, employees, prosecutors, applicant and defense attorneys, investigators, medical and legal providers, in discussing & sharing lessons of FraudcraftTM , industry leadership influence, and the trajectory of the future with AI. Here we promote the innovative mindset for scalable solutions.
FraudcraftTM is your ticket to see the inside of these schemes, a landscape once controlled by restricted access.
This is the podcast I wish existed when I first began my career. These are the people who have cracked the code on what they love & sharing their craft to help others. Here we shout cheers to the wisdom of passion, innovation, solutions, creations, evolution, revolution, invention, inspiration & the celebration of us all.
*FraudcraftTM is a term coined by Teena in identifying the sources and methods of organized fraud criminals in commercial insurance fraud and the study of the criminology and victimology of these organize fraud schemes.
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Fraudcraft
Latest Episodes
Why CA Dept of Insurance Most Productive Fraud Investigators Ended Up Under Internal Affairs
Part of our 3-part series inside the California Department of Insurance.17 years in. Detective. Sergeant. Trainer. Ashley Ritchie left CDI in 2025 — and she's laying out exactly how the agency tasked with fighting insurance fraud actual...
Californians pay $89M to Fight Fraud-and Still Losing. Is Dept of Insurance part of the problem?
Part 2 of 3 — Inside CDI: the money, the leadership, the systemAshley Ritchie breaks down the specific failures driving California's workers' comp fraud crisis — not opinion, casework.Covered in this episode:California's...
It's cheaper to pay the fraud than fight it- real reasons behind California Work Comp Crisis
"Conjured nonsense." That's how DaisyBill CEO Catherine Montgomery describes California's official workers' comp data — and it explains everything else in this episode.The state won't enforce SB 1160, a 2016 law requiring utilization-re...
Is law enforcement losing the fraud war in California: From Inside the Dept of Insurance- Pt 1/3
She spent 17 years investigating insurance fraud from inside California's own fraud police. She just walked away. Here's what she's finally saying.Ashley Ritchie was a Detective Sergeant with the California Department of Insurance (CDI)...
Fake Schools. Ghost Students. Forged Signatures. $64m a year fraud scheme in California Workers comp
Voucher Fraud Series Part 2 Karen Johnson is the foremost expert in California's most overlooked fraud — SJDB voucher and counseling school fraud — and she's back on Fraudcraft to break it all down.In this episode, Karen pu...
