A mother and daughter from northeastern Pennsylvania are on trial for allegedly taking part in a decade-long $1 million insurance scam.
Sixty-one-year-old Bianca Bucano and her 23-year-old daughter, Melissa, were allegedly part of a scam ring that sent invoices to insurers for home health care services they never provided.
Melissa Bucano’s attorney told a Monroe County jury during Monday’s opening statements his client was a home-schooled child doing as she was told when she filled out forms given to her by her mother starting in 2000.
The state attorney general’s office charged nine people in the case. Alleged ring-leader Judi Grate pleaded guilty and was sentenced to at least six years in prison in September. The Pocono Record reports Bianca Bucano’s attorney reserved his opening statement for later.
Topics Fraud
Was this article valuable?
Here are more articles you may enjoy.
Florida’s Slide Insurance Secures $210 Million Catastrophe Bond 
Soaring Insurance Costs Hit as US Buyers Finally Get a Break on Car Prices 
Cargo Owners in Baltimore Disaster Face ‘General Average’ Loss Sharing, MSC Says 
Employers Can’t Use Vicarious Liability to Block Negligence Claims, TN High Court Says 
