"DEAD" BUT ALIVE
BIG INSURANCE FRAUD
NEW YORK, luth July.
The insurance 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 M'Coy's death certificate, but found t*at it was news to M' Coy. Tho I insurance man told District Attorney Fachj who soon discovered 39 other per- j sons on whose supposed deaths the Metropolitan Insurance Co. paid death benefits. Ten employees of the company-were j arrested and charged with falsifying < records. • i Before a Grand Jury, 27 of the "corpses" testified that they had not| known they were dead. |
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 23, 26 July 1930, Page 9
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