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And scroll down to read about the sentencing in an unrelated but equally bizarre scheme – this for staging car accidents in Michigan to collect insurance
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Michigan furniture-making company energy executive Jerry Lee Akers has entered into a plea agreement with federal prosecutors on fraud charges for stealing over $1.7 million dollars in a five year scheme to bill for bogus natural gas services.“His primary responsibilities include the administration of the resource conservation programs, renewable energy development, and energy supply contracts,” according to his bio. “This led to his work with ‘offsite’ renewable energy projects which focused primarily on contract purchases.”
Since 2001, he has been the Senior Energy Manager for Herman Miller Inc., a world leader in contract office furniture and a strong proponent of sustainable business. His primary responsibilities include the administration of the resource conservation programs, renewable energy development, and energy supply contracts. This led to his work with “offsite” renewable energy projects which focused primarily on contract purchases.
Jerry has served on the board of directors for Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative and Wolverine Power Marketing Cooperative since 2004, and is currently serving on the Michigan Electric Cooperative Association board of directors.
Off to prison for one of the four accused by feds of staging car wrecks to bilk insurance companies in Lansing area
Feds call it “a sophisticated automobile accident insurance fraud ring that operated in Kent and Ingham Counties”
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(Grand Rapids, MI) – Gustavo Ramiro Acuna-Rosa, a resident of Kentucky, and formerly of Wyoming and Lansing, Michigan, was sentenced on Nov. 28, 2016 to just over two years (26 months total) in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge – the Honorable Paul L. Maloney sitting in Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Lansing Staged Car accident fraud sentencing of Gustavo Ramiro Acuna-Rosa
Gustavo Ramiro Acuna-Rosa, 28, of Versailles, Kentucky pleaded guilty to counts one and two of the superseding federal indictment.
Kentucky Resident Pleads Guilty To Role In Staged Automobile Accident Insurance Fraud Ring:
On Wednesday, July 20, 2016, U.S Attorney Patrick Miles announced that Gustavo Ramiro Acuna-Rosa, a resident of Kentucky, and formerly of Wyoming and Lansing, Michigan, pled guilty in United States District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and health care fraud.
The conspiracy count carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years and the health care fraud count a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years. Acuna-Rosa’s sentencing hearing was held November 28, 2016. He currently remains in federal custody.
Acuna-Rosa’s guilty pleas arise out of his involvement in a sophisticated automobile accident insurance fraud ring that operated in Kent and Ingham Counties from at least 2012 through May 2015.
In the plea agreement, Acuna-Rosa admitted that he first participated in the insurance fraud ring in 2012 when owners of Revive Therapy Center in Wyoming, Michigan, paid him $1,000 to participate in a staged automobile accident. Thereafter, Acuna-Rosa sought treatment at Revive Therapy Center, and his automobile insurance company was billed for false and fraudulent claims related to his unnecessary medical treatment.
In 2013, Acuna-Rosa, with the assistance of others, opened his own physical therapy clinic in Lansing, Michigan, under the name Renue Therapy Center. While operating this therapy clinic, Acuna-Rosa used recruiters who paid other individuals to participate in staged automobile accidents or to agree to seek treatment at his clinic for injuries that they falsely claimed to have suffered as a result of their real automobile accidents. Acuna-Rosa’s therapy clinic then billed automobile insurance companies for treatment that was unnecessary or that it did not actually provide to these individuals. Acuna-Rosa further admitted to submitting false insurance claims to automobile insurance companies totaling between $250,000 and $550,000.
U.S. Attorney Miles stated that, “Those who seek to personally benefit by defrauding the system with false automobile accidents and false insurance claims will be prosecuted to the fullest extent under the law.”
A federal indictment remains pending against three additional individuals that have been charged with involvement in the ring: Yoisler Herrera-Enriquez, age 30, and Dolis Rojas-Lopez, age 30, both of Wyoming, Michiganand, Antonio Ramon Martinez-Lopez, Age 34, of Port Richey, Florida.
The investigation is being handled by the Grand Rapids offices of the Department of Homeland Security-Homeland Security Investigations and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The prosecution is being handled by Assistant United States Attorney Ronald M. Stella. The charges in an indictment are merely accusations, and a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law.
Title & Section Offense Ended Count No.
18 U.S.C. § 1341 May 31, 2015 One
18 U.S.C. § 1347 May 31, 2015 Two
Count 1: Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud.
Count 2: Health Care Fraud.
Counts Three-Six, Seventeen, and Eighteen are dismissed on the motion of the United States
Gustavo Ramiro Acuna-Rosa
Related info:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmi/pr/2016_0720_Acuna-Rosa
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmi/pr/2016_0420_YHerreraEnriquez_etal
https://www.traceamerica.com/blog/post/2016/05/12/Staged-Vehicle-Crash-Scam-Gets-4-Arrested.aspx
http://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/four-indicted-staged-accident-scheme-michigan
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