INSURANCE FRAUDSTER WAS A VERY BAD MAN

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Insurance Fraudsters Convicted of Other Crimes

INSURANCE CRIME DOES NOT PAY

In my experience those who commit property or casualty insurance fraud are seldom arrested, even more rarely are they tried and convicted. Roberto Torner was an insurance criminal who avoided arrest for his insurance fraud activities but, because he was a serious criminal and dangerous, was arrested, tried and convicted of violent crimes. He filed a motion to vacate his conviction and sentence in United States Of America v. Roberto Torner, CRIMINAL No. 3:17-343, United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania (November 1, 2023) and the USDC kept Torner in Prison.

BACKGROUND

In June 2015, the Luzerne County Drug Task Force commenced an investigation into Roberto Torner after receiving information about his heroin trafficking and firearms activity from a confidential informant (C.I.).

The ATF commenced an investigation into Torner, Robles, and Alzugaray-Lugones involving suspected arson, insurance fraud, and firearms offenses.

Torner was granted pretrial release after being charged in a criminal complaint and subsequent indictment. Thereafter, while he was out on bail law enforcement officials executed a search warrant at one of Torner’s properties, where they recovered approximately 1.5 pounds of stolen U.S. military C-4 plastic explosives.

Following a 12-day trial, Torner was convicted on all counts and Torner was sentenced to 270 months of imprisonment.

DISCUSSION

The Court concluded that the claims make it clear that Torner’s claims were without merit. There was no denial of a constitutional right and the court denied Torner’s motion to vacate.

ZALMA OPINION

I have spent the last 55 years working to help insurers and police authorities to defeat those who commit insurance fraud and disabuse authorities of the fact that insurance fraud is a non-violent crime and a crime without victims. Judges have been known to say from the bench that an insurance company can’t be a victim. In this case the ATF took on an insurance fraudster and convicted him of crimes of violence and possession of weapons and stolen explosives. His activities defrauding insurers and dealing drugs were ignored and his other criminal conduct stopped the fraud by putting Torner and his co-defendants in prison and stopped his work as an insurance fraud perpetrator. A small victory for the defrauded insurers.

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