Majestic Scam Brings Down another Baltimore Police Officer

In July of 2011 we brought you the stories of several Baltimore police officers who were involved in a scam with Majestic, a car repair company. This time around, a second officer has been sentenced for his role in the scheme. According to the FBI press release, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake...

March 21st, 2012 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

“Operation Bandidos” Nets 4 in Auto Insurance Scheme

Four Miami-Dade County residents got in a lot of trouble lately when, on February 16th, they were arrested by the Hialeah Police and accused of fraudulently obtaining money from auto insurance companies after failing to do the proper repair work on vehicles. According to NBC News, “Operation Bandidos”...

February 20th, 2012 | Rings & Mills | Read More

Demolition Derby Chop Shop Raided for Insurance Fraud

Georgia state investigators say a DeKalb County repair garage is at the center of a fraud investigation. It was raided by agents from the Insurance Commissioner’s Office who were armed with a search warrant, guns, and suspicions of an insurance fraud ring. According to WSB-TV, when the shop’s...

February 15th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud, s | Read More

MA Glass Repair Operator Pleads Guilty to Fraud

Attorney General Martha Coakley stated that a Peabody business owner has pleaded guilty to collecting over $28,000 in fraudulent insurance claims for work that was performed at his automotive and glass companies. According to the Swampscott Patch, Robert Giller, 53, pleaded guilty on December 28th to...

December 30th, 2011 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Leader of “Body Shop of Horrors” Sentenced

The New Jersey man at the center of an extensive insurance fraud scam was sentenced on November 9th. Phillip Daniel Sessa, 44, was sentenced to 15 to 30 months in a state correctional facility and ordered to pay over $236,000 in restitution to insurance companies. He also received six years of probation. According...

November 15th, 2011 | Rings & Mills | Read More

Owners of Majestic Repair Shop Plead Guilty

Recently we brought you the story of a third police officer who was convicted of helping out with an auto repair company’s fraud scheme. The two brothers who owned that repair shop, Majestic Auto Repair, have now pled guilty as well. According to The Baltimore Sun, Hernan Alexis Moreno and Edwin...

July 12th, 2011 | 4, Insurance Fraud | Read More

Body Shop Charged: Beating up Cars for Profit

Perfect Collision in Boro Park is far from perfect. The owner and a worker have ended up in jail for “committing insurance fraud multiple times,” says King’s County District Attorney Charles Hynes. “The fraud was very clear here,” District Attorney Charles Hynes said yesterday of...

June 27th, 2011 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Forklift Fraud Ring Exposed

Police uncover all sorts of staged accidents - often with another car, sometimes a tree, or perhaps the occasional telephone pole. According to city prosecutors, at the University Collision Center in Philadelphia prefers to use forklifts - with car bumpers attached to the front. Seriously? A host...

April 20th, 2011 | 3, Rings & Mills | Read More

MA Body Shop Beats Up Cars For Cash

Michael Block, a Natick man who owns the Somerville auto shop Motor Sports Inc, has been accused of lying about the damage to cars in his shop in order to gain more money from insurance companies. As The Metrowest Daily News reported, Block has been charged with pumping up the damage to five vehicles...

March 9th, 2011 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

“Little Body Shop of Horrors” Nets 13

Pennsylvania police announced the arrests of 13 individuals for their alleged roles in an insurance fraud theft ring operated from a Philadelphia body shop. The two-year investigation, dubbed “Operation Little Body Shop of Horrors”, began in November 2008 and was originally focused on 41-year-old...

November 5th, 2010 | 2, Rings & Mills | Read More

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