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Over $1M Scheme: Everett Mechanics Faked Crashes, Car Damage To Cheat Insurance Agents, DA Says Over $1M Scheme: Everett Mechanics Faked Crashes, Car Damage To Cheat Insurance Agents, DA Says
Over $1M Scheme: Everett Mechanics Faked Crashes, Car Damage To Cheat Insurance Agents, DA Says Six people, including two fugitives, have been charged with defrauding more than $1 million from insurance companies by submitting false claims through their Massachusetts auto-body shop business, officials announced.  The Middlesex County District Attorney's Office announced the indictment of the six defendants on Monday, Feb. 26.  According to the DA's Office, a two-year investigation revealed that Everett-based FT Auto or Riviera Auto had been at the center of a "wide-ranging scheme" to defraud several insurance carriers.  As part of the scheme, the defendants would orche…

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Popular CT Eye Doctor Admits To Taking Kickbacks For Bogus Brain Scan Orders Popular CT Eye Doctor Admits To Taking Kickbacks For Bogus Brain Scan Orders
Popular CT Eye Doctor Admits To Taking Kickbacks For Bogus Brain Scan Orders A well-known Connecticut eye doctor admitted in Boston federal court to receiving kickbacks and racking up millions in bogus insurance and Medicare bills by ordering unnecessary brain scans, officials said. A licensed medical doctor in the State of Connecticut for 36 years, Donald Salzberg owned and operated Donald J. Salzberg, M.D., on Farmington Avenue in West Hartford, CT. Salzberg, who lives in Avon, conspired with a principal for a medical diagnostics company to order hundreds of transcranial doppler (TCD) scans in exchange for money between 2014 and 2019, …

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