Lawrence, Massachusetts

[American]

Le Globe

Three Lawrence lawyers arraigned on car insurance fraud charges
Four chiropractors, Nine others accused
By Caroline Louise Cole, Globe Correspondent | September 25, 2004

SALEM -- The indictment of three Lawrence attorneys this week on charges that they colluded with clients to commit automobile insurance fraud could combat a crime that costs the average Massachusetts driver $200 to $300 a year.
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Auto fraud investigations have been a top priority of the Lawrence Police Department and the Essex district attorney's office since September 2003, when Altagracias Arias, 65, was killed in a high-speed accident that the participants staged in order to file false accident and personal injury claims, according to Lawrence Police Chief John J. Romero.

Romero said the most recent indictments bring to 86 the number of individuals the city's Police Department is pursuing for auto fraud.

He said the number was "the tip of the iceberg."
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"I would have to know if the lawyers were really behind it or whether they were duped into helping out in an activity that proved to be criminal," Perlman said. "We shouldn't rush to judgment."

No, let's not do that.......

Oh, PS- The Globe "accidentally" left out the fact that it's exclusively Dominicans and Haitians who stage these crashes, who originally came here when President Johnson signed an immigration reform act, and who have since lived in tax-supported housing projects for the last 35 years.


"No immigrant visa will be issued to a person who is likely to become a public charge."
--Ted Kennedy, in support of the Immigration Act, 1965