The promise of a big payoff—along with bad television, apparently—compelled two cousins to stage an armed robbery during which one shot the other with a gun.
While living in Baltimore, Md., Joseph Francis Brooks, 46, orchestrated the hold-up with his cousin Pierre Lamont Taylor so that Taylor could file a false workers' compensation claim with his then-employer.
On August 14, 2002, their elaborate plot was brought to fruition. Taylor was working for United Parcel Service (UPS) when the “assailant” approached him, firing a bullet into his right leg. Taylor reported the ordeal to UPS and filed a claim with Liberty Mutual Insurance, UPS' workers' compensation insurer. In November 2004, Liberty Mutual doled out a lump sum disability payment of $250,000 to Taylor, who shared the wealth with Brooks.
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