Word: botein
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...four doctors and five other employes of an emergency hospital were suspended for tipping off attorneys about accidents. In New York City, after insurance companies paid $9,449,916 in automobile injury claims in 1935, an Accident Fraud Bureau was set up under Assistant District Attorney Bernard Botein. He found two widespread rackets: 1) "floppers," who fall in the street, claim to have been hit by a passing car; 2) rings, like the Hurwitz gang, which stage accidents in which driver, victim, lawyer and doctor share the boodle. New York now has the fake automobile accident racket so well...