A Washington man has been sentenced to a dozen years in jail and ordered to pay $7.1 million for main a fraud scheme that concerned staged collisions.
A U.S. District Choose sentenced William Oldham Mize to 144 months in federal jail in connection to a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving false and fabricated insurance coverage claims. The choose additionally imposed three years of supervised launch and $6.6 million in restitution to insurance coverage firms and $436,399 in restitution to the IRS.
In response to court docket paperwork, Mize was the ringleader of an insurance coverage fraud scheme to deliberately trigger car and boat collisions in addition to staged dwelling “accidents” to file fraudulent insurance coverage claims and accumulate the proceeds.
In response to court docket paperwork, the scheme happened between 2013 and 2018, concerned quite a few staged collisions in Washington and Nevada, and obtained greater than $6 million, most of which was saved by Mize. The federal government seized and forfeited greater than $2 million in belongings – together with quite a few homes, vehicles, boats, and money – from Mize and his co-conspirators and has returned that cash to victims.
Mize initially appeared in federal court docket on his indictment on Jan. 9, 2019. Following his preliminary look, he was launched pending trial. In July 2019, Mize fled from supervision and have become a fugitive, dwelling underneath various false identities.
Final yr, U.S. Marshals apprehended Mize in Jacksonville, Florida. Mize was then situated and arrested at a marina in central Florida and transported to Japanese Washington, the place he has remained in custody.
The FBI, Inside Income Service, and U.S. Marshals Service investigated the case. Assistant United States Attorneys Dan Fruchter, Jeremy J. Kelley, and Brian M. Donovan prosecuted the case on behalf of the U.S.
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