41 charged in insurance scam involving dead deer

[yortbogey]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Forty-one people in Philadelphia are facing charges in what prosecutors call an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that used dead deer to fake car accidents.

Ronald Galati Sr. is accused of running a $5 million scam out of his auto body shop.

District Attorney Seth Williams said Wednesday that Galati coached customers to claim they'd struck a deer rather than a car. That way, insurance companies would consider them "no fault" accidents and pay the claims without raising the customers' premiums.

Investigators say Galati stored deer carcasses, blood and fur in the back of his shop to use as props.

Also charged are Galati's wife, son and daughter, several insurance adjusters, tow truck drivers, a city official and a police officer.

Defense attorney Anthony Voci said he couldn't comment specifically on the charges because he hadn't seen the grand jury presentment but that his client is innocent until proven guilty.


http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/41-charged-in-insurance-scam-involving-dead-deer

 

[Dropped Cat]

Seems like a pretty routine insurance scam to me.

How did the story break?

 

[stoned-trout]

I have hit deer before it aint that fun....I had to reinforce my truck front when I lived in maine... never got to hit a deer with the new mods tho....that guy is creative...you got to think outside the box... but I bet he got greedy

 

[D. B. Doober]

$5 million dollars is a lot of dead deer

 

[GSPfan]

Great idea! Insurace companies are the criminals in my eyes. They won't hesitate if they want to fuck you. Whoever ratted should get theirs.

 

[hush]

I'm a fan of anything that fucks insurance companies. Fucking grifters. Legalized scam industry. Good, the scammers got scammed.

(Dude fucked up though getting too greedy, as usually happens when people do)