SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) _ Joey Buttafuoco, who gained national notoriety in the 1990s when his teenage girlfriend shot his wife in the face in New York, was sentenced to a year in county jail Tuesday after pleading no contest to a charge of being a felon illegally possessing ammunition. Buttafuoco, 50, was ordered to... Read More
Joey Buttafuoco Jailed for Auto Claims Fraud but not with any ‘Long Island Lolita’
by John Franklin The infamous Joey Buttafuoco pleaded guilty to auto insurance fraud on Monday in Los Angeles, California, and began a one-year jail sentence imposed by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Horowitz. Horowitz also ordered Buttafuoco to pay $4,624.00 in restitution to 21st Century Insurance Company and to surrender his state license to... Read More
Fitness Freak’s Fraudulent Claim Just Didn’t Workout
A Triathlete’s legal challenge that started back in June is on its last leg now that she’s pled guilty to one count of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. And for her chiropractor, it looks like he’s going to be breaking a pretty good sweat as well before it’s is all through. Charlotte Chapman accepted a previously... Read More
Above The Law, But Not Liability. City Of Oakland.
The City of Oakland seems to have started off 2003 on the wrong foot. First, visions of glory and bragging rights to being the home of the current Superbowl champs were crushed by Tampa Bay. Then just this month the public learned that another team in the city, the Oakland Riders, posted a record liability... Read More
Claimant Not Happy He Was Forced To Do The Chicken Dance
A claimant jailed for fraud is preparing to crank up his legal barbeque and cook the district attorney and the company that got him locked up. Stephen Oneto’s work comp claim was opened in 1997 when he injured his back working for Foster Farms in Auburn. His injury was severe enough that steel bars were... Read More
The Los Angeles and Sacramento District Attorneys’ offices have two new fraud trophies to hang on their walls. Ana Rosa Pena managed to slip an anxiety claim through on adjusters July 1, 1998 after her employer, Los Angeles County, received a bomb threat. But while on disability she went beyond just buying a bottle of... Read More
A man who claimed he spent most of last December in bed whimpering because of a mysterious unwitnessed back injury was arrested Dec. 19 because 33 hours of sub rosa video footage told a different story. Between December 2001 and February 2002 the Workers’ Compensation Department of the Fresno Unified School District obtained footage of... Read More
In 1999 Shah Kazemi, the CEO of Monterey Mushroom—the largest mushroom distributor in the United States with more than 4,500 employees and four farms in California—noticed that one chiropractor’s business was flourishing from his farm’s rich compost of claims. Kazemi reported his observations to authorities, which then moved in and unearthed some dirty claims. Working... Read More
