Friday, May 30, 2014

PHILADELPHIA DRIVERS COLLIDED WITH ‘DEER’ RESULTING IN DAMAGES OF $5 MILLION

41 people, including an auto body shop owner and his family, several insurance adjusters, tow truck drivers, a city official and a cop are charged in an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that used dead deer to fake car accidents

I’m surprised that it took the insurance companies and authorities so long before they came to the realization that there weren’t that many deer in the City of Brotherly Love.

41 CHARGED WITH INSRUANCE FRAUD USING DEAD DEER

Associated Press
May 29, 2014

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.

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