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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yes, I’m the great pretender. Pretending that you’re still around……
What’s around? Why a pretty nifty scheme to augment and income still coming in from long-ago recorded Top 50 Chart songs. And maybe the lyrics should have included Pretended that this accident really happened.
Larry Ollison, a former member of the rock Ôn’ roll band, The Platters, has plead guilty to one felony count of insurance fraud. The judge said, Only you-ooooooo and sentenced the singer to a six year prison term and $30,000 in restitution in accordance with a plea agreement handed on a platter to a Platter by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office. (Groan!)
According to DOI Fraud investigators, Ollison’s scheme involved rental cars, rented U-Haul trucks, falsified documents and staged collisions. Ollison would rent a U-Haul truck and file an accident claim with U-Haul insurance carrier Republic Western Insurance. Prior to filing a claim, Ollison would rent a car using an alias and stage a collision of considerable damage to that car. He would use the rental car alias as the party involved in the U-Haul collision. Ollison would then return the rental car and report that the vehicle had been damaged by a hit and run driver. By purchasing a damage waiver when renting the vehicle, Ollison was not chargedfor damages to the rental car. Ollison would receive the check Republic Western issued and endorse it using the name of the payee and his own name, allowing him to cssh the check.
Perhaps his judgment was impaired because Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Ollison couldn’t see what he was doing.
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