EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA - Lawyers, chiropractors named in auto fraud investigation: "Two local medical clinics and two local law firms have been named in the latest grand jury investigation into auto-insurance scams.
Named in court documents are Kaplan Chiropractic of Lawrence and Haverhill Family Chiropractic of Haverhill, as well as Lawrence lawyer Socrates De La Cruz and the Andover law office of Berger & Hyde. An accompanying police report states two men staged phony crashes and 'brought the majority of their bogus victims' to these four businesses.
Repeated calls over the last two days to these four offices were not returned for comment.
This is the second grand jury to focus on auto fraud in the Merrimack Valley, a cottage industry of crime where middlemen known as 'runners' get paid to steer accident victims to lawyers and chiropractors for cash.
The four businesses are not the subjects of this new grand jury, convened only a few weeks ago. The focus of the probe is on two alleged runners - Christopher Ortega, 28, formerly of Lawrence, and Leo M. Lopez, 26, a former Haverhill resident. The court documents described the men as 'major runners.'"
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