CASH CON ARTISTS quickly resumed on terror and death to use
The fires were still to rage and choking clouds of dust in 12 September, if Johnny Dunham was employed, made its way on the first sub-level of 5 World Trade Center.
Fire Department wear the jacket stole an ambulance from destruction and the implementation of a pocket to absorb oxygen, jerrycans, Dunham Tourneau has been observed in the store, rummaged through the case and broke at least six watches , Including a $ 15000 Cartier, and a large amount of cash.
Then, 26 years old, unemployed custody has quietly past misery and workers in his house in Harrison Ave. in the Bronx.
Within 24 hours after the terrorist attack, thieves, hustlers and construction of artists began to jump for their Scams, twist one of the worst disasters in American history, and the overflow of sorrow and it came with him , To his advantage.
Dunham, now with a prison term of at least 21 / 2 years for its flights was also the first, but it was not the last.
Two weeks after the attack, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau’s Office, 70 cases involving fraud September 11 studied, and since there has been an incomparable range of fraud from every penny-ante, such as the sale of counterfeit Ground Zero Memorial dirt collectors, to more than $ 600000 purchase requests for life insurance by a Pike County, Ga., couple.
Crooks of all the USA and abroad have falsified dead and wounded and soak the Red Cross and other charities; submitted false life, property and Workers’ Compensation claims of insurance, permits to sell anthrax and bioterrorism cures protection equipment and used the Internet to solicit contributions for the victims.
“It is an atrocity. I do nothing wrong in using this national tragedy for selfish financial gain,” said Greg Serio, Commissioner of the State Department of Insurance.
His office is studying 50 cases of fraud linked to over 11 September. The search is complicated by the assurance of 29176 claims in conjunction with the devastation and $ 15.2 billion paid to these requirements.
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