Eight New Yorkers have been charged in connection with a scheme to defraud multiple insurance companies of millions of dollars by staging auto accidents.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York, the eight charged with mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud would allegedly rent U-Haul vehicles, drive to Kings and Nassau counties, and either strike or be struck by coconspirators 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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