Car-Glass Owner Guilty Of Insurance Scam

Date: 23 March 2010
Source: Sfgate.com

Date: 23 March 2010

The owner and three employees of a national auto glass company based in Oakland have been convicted in federal court in connection with a scheme to overcharge insurance firms by installing cheaper windshields than they claimed on repair invoices, authorities said today.

Mehrdad "Tony" Hakimian, 48, of Mill Valley, the owner of Glass Emporium of Marin Inc., was convicted by a federal jury Thursday of nine counts of wire fraud and one count each of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and obstruction of justice.He will be sentenced June 11.
 
Hakimian directed employees at his business' West Oakland headquarters and at its subsidiaries, Glass Pro and Glass Masters, to cheat insurance companies by misrepresenting the grade of windshields they were installing, prosecutors said.
 
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