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Some Unfunny Foolish Fraudsters

The New York Alliance Against Insurance Fraud mined reports from the New York State Insurance Department Frauds Bureau and struck fool's gold.

By Joan E. Collier, Joan E. Collier | Updated on March 17, 2010

The New York Alliance Against Insurance Fraud mined reports from the New York State Insurance Department Frauds Bureau and struck fool’s gold. From an embarrassment of riches, they selected a roster of New York’s Most Foolish Fraudsters for 2009.

Most Brazen

Under the Most Brazen heading was a 57-year-old Herkimer County man charged in December 2009 with wrongfully receiving nearly $47,000 in workers’ compensation benefits while working as a disc jockey for a Utica strip club. The ill-gotten monies spanned five years, but the case itself dated back to an accident two-decades old. “[The defendant]was injured in 1986 while working as a painter for a Central New York cheese company, and he has previously denied in three separate written statements to the State Insurance Fund (SIF) that he had returned to work,” a Utica, New York news article on the case quoted officials as saying.

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