ASSURANCE FRAUDS.
BRISK TRADE IN "CORPSES."
NEW YORK, July 18.
The iusurance executive who observed a supposedly dead man hurrying on his way to work started an investigation and disclosed a million dollar conspiracy. He recalled that he recently saw John McCoy's death certificate, but found that it was all news to McCoy. The insurance man told District Attorney Fach, who soon discovered 39 other persons on whose supposed deaths the Metropolitan Insurance Company paid death benefits.
Ten employees of the company were arrested and charged with falsifying records. Before a grand jury, 27 of the "corpses" testified that they had not known they were dead.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 172, 23 July 1930, Page 7
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