Fraudcraft

About 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. Subscribe and follow our community and join us in simply having fun together.

Publisher

Teena

Category

true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jan 2026

Latest episode

13 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Aug 2026

   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 actually operates. Causal link between rising workers comp / fraud crises & the failures in our law enforcement systems that are supposed to protect us. Inside this episode: The LA office pulls 35-40% of the state's fraud referrals — and was fully staf...

2. 

   13 Aug 2026

   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 system Ashley Ritchie breaks down the specific failures driving California's workers' comp fraud crisis — not opinion, casework. Covered in this episode: California's Fraud Assessment Commission pays out ~$89M/year to fight fraud — CDI gets 45% — but funding urgency spikes every April for grant reporting instead of running year-round CDI wanted to raise detective pay using its own existing budget to stop losing people to Cal DOJ (sam...

3. 

   10 Aug 2026

   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-review data. The DWC made its own mandatory reporting system (WCIS) voluntary. When RAND spent $300,000 studying care delays, only 2 claims administrators — out of hundreds — agreed to hand over data. The result: a taxpayer-funded study that concluded th...

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Spotify

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2 ratings

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