Authorities charged eight New Yorkers in connection with a scheme to defraud multiple insurers out of millions by staging auto accidents.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York, those charged with mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud allegedly rented U-Haul trucks to then drive to Kings and Nassau counties to either strike or be struck by co-conspirators driving and occupying other vehicles.
"These defendants played bumper cars with the lives of unsuspecting New Yorkers, all to enrich themselves through insurance fraud," says Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, in a statement.
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