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Preet Bharara Highlighted Insurance Fraud

By Evan H. Krinick
July 01, 2017

Over nearly eight years as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara became recognized as a powerful prosecutor in many areas, including government corruption and white-collar crime. Another subject for which he certainly deserves mention is his strong record helping to fight insurance fraud in New York.

Much can be learned from the numerous insurance fraud cases prosecuted by his office. They included what he has referred to as the “largest single no-fault automobile insurance fraud scheme ever charged” because it defrauded automobile insurance companies of more than $100 million by, among other things, creating and operating medical clinics that provided unnecessary and excessive medical treatments in order to take advantage of New York's no-fault law. See, e.g., “Brooklyn Doctor Found Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court in Connection with Massive No-Fault Insurance Fraud Scheme,” Press Release. Charges were brought against 36 people, and most of them were convicted or pleaded guilty.

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