After recklessly submitting fraudulent insurance claims to multiple insurers, one Los Angeles-area attorney has now been sentenced to formal probation and ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution.

Between 2003 and 2007, Susana Ragos Chung, 60, participated in a sophisticated organized auto fraud crime ring. The ring was initially discovered in 2004 by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Urban Auto Fraud Task Force in the fraud division of its Benicia Regional Office, which initiated an investigation known as “Phantom Menace” into organized auto insurance fraud in the Bay Area in 2003.

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