Rogues Gallery

Billion-Dollar ‘Fraud Tax’ Crime Syndicate Drives Up Rates New York – Jan. 27…Staged car accidents and other auto insurance scams have become a “cottage industry” in states like New York and Florida, with organized criminal gangs and crooked medical facilities bilking hundreds of millions of dollars from insurance companies and hiking rates for innocent drivers.

‘Frankie the Fraudster’ to Thank New York Trial Lawyers, et al Throughout 2012 New York, Jan.17…A nefarious – and pointedly obnoxious – cartoon character called “Frankie the Fraudster” was today named a 2012 spokesman for New Yorkers Stand Against Insurance Fraud (NYSAIF), an organization of drivers fighting rampant auto insurance fraud in the Empire State.

Their first attempt at deliberately ramming their vehicles into one another on a Bronx street last summer did not sufficiently damage the cars. So the suspects – nine of them spread out in three vehicles – tried again, this time backing into each other in what the authorities say was a criminal version of demolition

He witnessed a truck crash — but really saw a huge payday, cops said. A Bronx driver reaped an insurance windfall by pretending he was involved in a wreck between a tractor-trailer and a car near the Triborough Bridge — but surveillance video caught him in his lie, police said yesterday. Read more at the

From NBC New York: “About one in five no-fault claims in the New York City area shows evidence of fraud,” said Robert Hartwig of the Insurance Information Institute. “In other words, the claim itself may have been entirely contrived. In New York state alone we are looking at a quarter of a billion dollars in