Indiania State Police are investigating Pet Cremation Fraud. The Funeral Director did not have a license to operate a Crematory and has reported to be returning the wrong cremated remains to customers.
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Funeral Home and Funeral Services gone wrong.
Just when you may have prepared yourself to plan your funeral a new type of funeral scam has emerged- Medical Donation Fraud. A reason case recently involved the new scam with a cremation fraud twist. Click Here for details
This Video explains Medical Donation(Funeral) Fraud and how to avoid it:
Gail Ruben has inside information on this organ donation scandal , and she has written a new funeral planning book entitled A Good Goodbye:
Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die.
Here is a video on the cremation, felony Body parts Fraud taking lace in both Kansas City and New Mexico. This was a scam conducted by a lower cost funeral provider.
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In one of the more eerie funeral scams of late. A man was convicted in the illegal trafficking, selling and obtaining body parts from Funeral Homes. The individual will be behind bars for 8 years Don’t do the crime If you cant do the time.
Philip Guyett, who pleaded guilty in March to mail fraud for his handling of human tissue he recovered at funeral homes and then sold for use in bone grafts and other procedures…Guyett worked with local funeral homes, and on several occasions falsified records that would have shown some of the donors to be ineligible. In one case, he altered evidence that a donor had liver cancer and sepsis. Another case flagged by FDA inspectors indicate Guyett falsified the cause of death of a patient who showed signs of intravenous drug use — a problem that could have tainted the donor’s tissue with infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis.
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.
There 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