The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas

Re:The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas by dkarp on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @08:57AM (#24270827)

5 years seems like such a small penalty.

He was an international arms dealer and from the sounds of it selling weapons to countries that it was illegal to sell weapons to. Who knows what those weapons were used for.

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Re:The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas by adrianmsmith on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @09:26AM (#24271076)

But I think he wasn’t convicted for that? (Not sure why.)

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Re:The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas by giarc on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:47AM (#24272543)

I think its a common situation where you have to decide between crimes with long sentences, but hard to prove and smaller charges that are easier to prove.

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Re:The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas by refurb on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:55AM (#24272625)

From the article it didn’t seem like the arms dealing was illegal?

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Re:The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas by dkarp on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @12:10PM (#24272829)

“and before you realize it, you’ve got a load of freshly overhauled attack helicopters getting snuck out of Marseille in the middle of the night going to Chad.”

Maybe not but if it's not illegal, why would they need to be snuck out? He might have just been adding more drama to a regular old arms deal

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