Disability Fraud—Oregon

Amount: Unknown

Last week an Oregon man was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for ordering his teenage son to shoot him in the legs in a failed attempt to collect on a disability insurance policy. This man was already in prison for involvement with a company that orchestrated tens of millions of dollars in mortgage fraud during last decade's real estate boom. He began serving a ten-year sentence in 2014. The day before he was to report to federal prison, he was wounded in a roadside shooting. He told the police that he was shot in the legs after stopping to help a pregnant motorist in the middle of the night. The police later found out that he persuaded his seventeen-year-old to shoot him with a shotgun. He applied for the disability insurance policy a week before he orchestrated his own shooting. He also lied on the application, stating that he had not been arrested during the last ten years.