| We owe the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, a | | | | "debt to society" is repaid. |
| clearing house for scams information, a word of | | | | > A Houston high school teacher promised passing |
| thanks for these case histories. In their yearly "Hall of | | | | grades to two failing students to set ablaze her Chevy |
| Shame," this anchor group, consisting of consumer | | | | Malibu car so she could collect the insurance money. |
| organizations, government agencies, and insurance | | | | She got 90 days to think about it. |
| companies, came up with a compendium that reads | | | | > A Tennessee oncologist watered down cancer |
| like the Last Refuge for Scoundrels. Here are some | | | | drugs, then billed Medicare for the full amount. Justice |
| horrible examples of how twisted scam artists | | | | struck with a 15-year sentence. |
| fabricated their twisted dreams, transformed them into | | | | > A Florida dermatologist diagnosed skin cancer, even |
| reality. It reads like a tutorial on how to microwave | | | | though employees placed Styrofoam and chewing |
| hamsters for fun and profit. | | | | gum on biopsy slides instead of human tissue. He |
| > A Virginia woman, claiming to have found a dead | | | | performed 122 surgeries on one elderly man. He |
| mouse in her soup at a Cracker Barrel restaurant, | | | | received 20 years to repent for his sins |
| demanded $500,000 in damages. Autopsy on the | | | | > A Chicago grain futures executive torched his $1 |
| mouse revealed no soup in the lungs, and it hadn't | | | | million home, with his 90-year old mother still in the |
| been cooked. She is doing a 1-year stretch. | | | | basement, to make it look like she'd set the fire. His 190 |
| > An Ohio "pain management" doctor threatened to | | | | year sentence will indeed give him more than enough |
| deny pain killers to his patients unless they let him use | | | | time to pray for forgiveness of his sins. |
| their names to bill insurance companies for $60 million in | | | | One can only ask: in all of their pathetic machinations, |
| drugs. He fraudulently billed insurance companies for | | | | how could these presumably sane people hatch such |
| more than 100 patients a day, for years. Two of his | | | | bizarre real-world scams? Over the top. It's like the |
| patients died of overdoses. He is doing life in a Federal | | | | scam artist saying, I'm only greedy on days ending in y.. |
| slammer. | | | | Though justice was served, you cannot help but |
| > A New York doctor paid drug addicts to use their | | | | wonder from these case histories, has the world gone |
| names so he could bill insurers big-time bucks. He filed | | | | mad? It's been said that the surest sign that intelligent |
| 2,000 bogus claims for phantom surgeries on a single | | | | life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never |
| addict. (This one is a real challenge to figure. On a | | | | tried to contact us. Maybe there is some truth to this. |
| single patient?) He is doing a 20-year term--before his | | | | |