Wednesday, May 31, 2006

greasy grannies in insurance fraud...

ok, so this from cnn.......LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Undercover detectives watched the blind man climb into the suspect's car and start writing on document after document. They worried he was signing his life away.

As 74-year-old Josif Gabor would later tell it, he was walking to the bank when a woman he had met briefly before offered to drive him and translate some banking documents into his native Hungarian.

Once inside, Gabor thought the woman was just trying to be helpful when she asked: Could she buy him some life insurance?

The woman, 72-year-old Olga Rutterschmidt, is now accused with a friend in a macabre scheme to befriend vulnerable men, insure their lives for millions of dollars and then cash in after they died in mysterious back alley hit-and-runs.

The women have been charged with insurance fraud in two cases involving homeless men -- and police are investigating whether they played a role in those two deaths and duped a half-dozen other men who are still alive.

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