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Upstate man pleads guilty to insurance fraud
July 30, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Russ Dubisky, Executive Director
803-252-3455 or cell phone 803-708-5271
russd@scinsnews.com
Columbia, S.C. – July 30, 2010 -- An Upstate man has pleaded guilty to insurance fraud in Spartanburg County.
Mark Wingo, 40, formerly of Moore, S.C., pleaded guilty on July 28 in Spartanburg County General Sessions Court to presenting false claims for payment of $1,000 or less. Judge R. Lawton McIntosh sentenced Wingo to 30 days to be served concurrently with his unrelated six-month sentence for failure to pay child support.
On March 26, 2009, Wingo went to Lowe’s store in Spartanburg County and took a package of drill bits from a shelf. The video shows him doing something near the floor, then replacing the package on the shelf. Wingo then showed a Lowe’s employee a cut on his hand and said he had cut his hand on the packaging or while opening the packaging. Bloody packaging was found on the shelf; then a razor was found six feet away.
One hour later, Wingo made the same claim at Home Depot in Spartanburg. Lowe’s and Home Depot communicated and discovered the dual claim, so both claims were denied.
The case was investigated by Danny Remion of SLED and was prosecuted by the S.C. Attorney General’s Office.
The South Carolina Insurance Fraud Hotline, 1 (888) 95-FRAUD, is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for reporting insurance fraud, which can be a felony in South Carolina. All reports remain confidential.
For more information, contact the South Carolina Insurance News Service at 803-252-3455 or use our contact form.
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