FBI sting catches nearly 100 insurance scam artists

Friday, June 27, 2003

CHICAGO -- An FBI agent posing as a personal injury lawyer set up a bogus law office and caught scores of scam artists who staged auto accidents to cheat insurance companies out of more than $1 million, prosecutors said Thursday.

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