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Coalition Against Insurance Fraud
Coalition Elects No-Class Of 2011 To Insurance Fraud Hall Of Shame
January 17, 2012
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 --A cash-strapped businessman torches his home then massacres five people to keep witnesses from testifying. A cop shoots himself to steal workers comp money. Two scammers stuff a coffin with a mannequin and cow parts to invent a dead person for a million-dollar life-insurance payout.
These are among
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Auto - padding/false claim
Soggy boat boondoggle flounders
January 05, 2012
Scott Tran’s commercial fishing boat was a floating insurance fortune, and the Cherry Hill man decided to cash in.
He plotted to sink the Alexander II on the high seas to scam a $400,000 insurance payout. But instead Tran is the one with a sinking feeling.
His klutzy
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Life insurance
Hall of Shame: Pastor cares enough to kill disabled friend
December 22, 2011
Legally blind and mentally disabled, Lemuel Wallace thought he had a caring friend in Kevin Pushia.
After all, Pushia was a pastor, a supposed man of peace. He also was known for his work with Baltimore’s developmentally disabled.
And yes, Pushia really did care: About getting rich, and Wallace
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Homeowners - arson
Hall of Shame: Home insurance arsonist shoots witnesses, kids
December 22, 2011
Dogged by debt, William Craig Miller torched his fancy home for an illicit insurance bailout. But growing desperate as his fraud trial neared, the Scottsdale, Ariz. man coldly executed five people to prevent witnesses from testifying. It was one of the deadliest insurance crimes in U.S. history.
Miller seemed a successful
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Homeowners - padding
Hall of Shame: Roof caves in on DJ’s stormy insurance con
December 22, 2011
Radio DJ Tanya Cruise sailed rough waters. She had two crooked politicians and a shady adjuster create storm damage to her home in a hapless insurance scheme that was discovered when one of her corrupt politicos was wiretapped for yet other corruption crimes.
Lori Sergiacomi was known as smooth-talking Tanya
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Work comp - worker
Hall of Shame: Crooked cop shoots self in foot with shot to chest
December 22, 2011
The distress call came in — a cop was down.
A passer-by found Los Angeles School District police officer Jeff Stenroos lying on the ground near his open car door.
A car-burglary suspect with a pony tail and black leather jacket pumped a bullet into Stenroos while he
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Homeowners - arson
Hall of Shame: Playing with fire burns homeowners and hired torch
December 22, 2011
Victor and Olga Barriere wanted to burn down their rickety home for insurance money. They got their wish, but paid a higher price than any insurance money they could steal.
Their hired henchman was a rank amateur at home arsons. He blew up the house in a
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Medicare/Medicaid
Hall of Shame: Armenian mob boss milks Medicare for $160 million
December 22, 2011
Vor. It’s an obscure word, good for scoring points in Scrabble. But in the world of Armenian mobsters, a Vor is the godfather, the don — the gang’s overlord.
Armen Karazianis was a Vor who ran a vast Armenian criminal gang in the U.S. The far-reaching kleptocracy brazenly looted American
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Fraud - general
Hall of Shame: Hoax Hassids stage daffy diamond heist
December 21, 2011
Two anxiety-ridden diamond merchants needed money to prop up their struggling business finances.
Their loopy plan: Hire two thugs disguised as Hassidic Jews with toy guns. The hoax Hassids would fake a robbery of their New York diamond-district store. They’d pretend to 
steal the bling, but the
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Coalition Against Insurance Fraud
Hanover Insurance executive elected co-chair of the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud
December 07, 2011
Frank Sztuk of Hanover Insurance was elected co-chair of the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud amid record attendance at the public-interest group’s annual membership meeting today.
Sztuk is Hanover’s National SIU Strategist Director and has chaired the Massachusetts Fraud Bureau. He will share Coalition leadership with incumbent co-chair Steve
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