$491 million awarded in funeral fraud case

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

ST. LOUIS -- A St. Louis federal jury has awarded $491 million in damages in a 6-year-old lawsuit linked to the collapse years ago of a company that sold prepaid funerals but federal investigators described as nothing more than an elaborate Ponzi scheme.

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