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A funeral director has been caught embezzling $175,000 USD from one Estate. The problem for Funeral directors appears to be other peoples money.  That is  why you need to keep your hand on your wallet when negotiating a funeral. The Funeral  Director no matter how nice he may seem  will try to take as much money he can.

A Funeral Director has been caught Embezzling 175,000 from one estate

A Funeral Director has been caught Embezzling 175,000 from one estate

Be on your guard when making funeral arrangements

Under a pre-indictment plea deal, Childs’ attorney turned over checks for the full amount to representatives of the estate of the late Olive M. Reimann. State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia then told the Akron businessman he faces six months in jail when he’s sentenced Dec. 14.

via www.buffalonews.com

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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
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Now Funeral Fraud has extended to the Funeral Home bookkeeper. A bookkeeper for a funeral home has been charged with racketeering. She was involved with  double billing the state for cremation and embalming.

The main  charge stealing from the homes of deceased people.

Recently a funeral home bookkeeper has been found taking funeral moneyThere seems to be wave of this kind of funeral fraud. It is the sign of economic hard times.

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A funeral home bookkeeper has been arrested on racketeering and larceny charges….. She is also being accused of double-billing the state for various funeral related costs such as transporting the deceased and the costs for cremating and embalming them…..The investigation is being conducted by the Statewide Prosecution Bureau and Elder Abuse Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney and is expected to continue. Officials said that they expect more arrests

via www.wfsb.com

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This all went down at an East Hartford Connecticut funeral home

Funeral fraud needs to be stopped in whatever form it takes.


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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
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White out was tool used in multimillion$$ funeral scam according to the FBI

White out was tool used in multimillion$$ funeral scam according to the FBI

A “funeral guy” has committed a multimillion dollar funeral crime using “White Out” a tool that many have in there home. Randall Sutton The President of National Prearranged Services(NPS) used White Out to alter documents to insurance policies and  steal millions. This is according to the Department Of Justice Press Release.

The NPS Funeral Scandal has cost 7 states up to 600  million dollars in State Guaranty Assurance payments. A  Civil Funeral Preneed Lawsuit has been filed in Federal Court to recover the money.

The President of  National Prearranged  Randall Sutton has been arrested and indicted. One of the tools used “was White Out” or Correction fluid  in the fraud scheme taking money from pre-need  policyholders and funeral homes.

From the FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation Press Release” :

“According to the indictment, beginning in 1998 and continuing until 2008, Sutton and others, defrauded National Prearranged Services’ customers, states’ guaranty funds, and funeral homes doing business with National Prearranged Services………For example, at the time they purchased prearranged funeral services, many customers completed applications for life insurance policies indicating they were making payment in full for insurance policies that would fund their funerals.

Employees at National Prearranged Services, with the knowledge and under the direction of Sutton, simply whited-out the indications that payments had been made in full and altered the documents to make it appear as though the customers had made partial payments. The altered documents were forwarded to life insurance companies such as Lincoln Memorial Life, who adopted the policies and assumed the obligation to pay a lump sum at the time of the customer’s death. National Prearranged Services, meanwhile, diverted the difference between the true full payments and the falsified partial payments from the customer’s insurance policy, thus retaining the vast majority of the customer’s lump-sum payment while transferring the obligation of future pay.

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