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Crime & Punishment

People came from North Carolina, Minnesota and even the Dominican Republic to collect what they had been told over the phone would be up to $11,000 in insurance money, awaiting them at an office in Long Island City, Queens. But when they arrived, they were arrested and charged with participating in an auto insurance fraud ring, one that police said billed insurance companies tens of millions of dollars for accidents that never happened.

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Posted by Webmaster at September 29, 2003 01:51 AM