Posted on 06/16/2024 3:54:10 AM PDT by Libloather
It’s the melting pot of all scams.
Russian gangsters, MS-13 members, and a cadre of corrupt surgeons, lawyers and lenders are pulling off the latest big con in the city: bogus personal-injury lawsuits where immigrants go under the knife to help their twisted ruse.
Migrants and other desperate New Yorkers are pressured into getting unneeded spinal fusion surgery and other operations to boost the value of their fake-accident claims, according to court records, insurance investigators and law-enforcement sources.
Doctors cash in on the sick swindle by performing back and neck fusions, allowing fraudsters to swipe billions through bogus insurance filings, according to court filings and sources.
The racket typically involves a healthy person taking a seemingly minor tumble on the street or at a construction site, then claiming a devastating injury that requires multiple surgeries. A crooked surgeon fuses healthy vertebrae with screws and plates, leading to a lawsuit against a business or landlord or both. Settlements start at $1 million each but can go much higher.
“One-five is now on the cheap side,” said an insurance industry lawyer who asked for anonymity.
These scams rely on law firms that take on hundreds of such cases, along with high-profile doctors, sketchy lending firms that hard-sell migrants into borrowing to cover the costs, and an army of “runners” who recruit victims and orchestrate their falls, according to legal papers and sources familiar with the mix of schemes.
The set-up is fed by a seemingly endless supply of low-income dupes willing to risk their health for a quick score.
“They’re regularly recruiting migrants and homeless people and in some cases are proactively arranging for them to come to New York,” a private investigator told The Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
If folks are that stupid, they deserve getting scammed and going under the knife.
Wow - I’ve been avoiding spinal fusion surgery for 15+ years now due to how risky it is. Hard to imagine perfectly healthy people undergoing that procedure for a payoff (the crooked lawyers and surgeons I can sort of understand but the patient risking their health and future mobility as well as a lot of painful rehab is hard to wrap my mind around).
law and order episode comes to life..........
My wife had spinal fusion surgery two months ago, along with opening up some nerve channels. Just started physical therapy last week. It was a tough decision for her to get the surgery, but the alternative of continuing deterioration and eventually being completely unable to walk was worse. Surgery is not a quick miracle cure by any means; she has a long painful process ahead of her.
I cannot imagine anyone undergoing such surgery for the sake of a financial scam, no matter what the immediate payoff.
With 24 vertebrae, the ‘victim’ can go back over and over.
1.5 mil times, say 23 joints, is decent spending money.
“MS-13, RUSSIAN mobsters use migrants in elaborate injury scam”
Still not worth World War 3 just because a few Russians are scamming us.
They should stick to the more plausible Bat Boy journalism.
Amazing, even on this thread on this topic, you find the need to protect Russia.
“Amazing, even on this thread on this topic, you find the need to protect Russia.”
We have CLOWNS* here who claimed that Russia was behind the Hamas attacks...so it goes both ways.
*can’t remember if you were one of them.
Wow, what a response, consistent and in keeping with post 7, but wow.
“Wow, what a response, consistent and in keeping with post 7, but wow.”
That’s how it works here, DEAL WITH IT. To this day, NO ONE has found any direct link from Putin to the Hamas attack...yet the CLOWNS* here were immediately blaming Putin.
*can’t remember if you were one of them.
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