A New York lawyer pleaded guilty to a fraud conspiracy charge for his role in a multimillion-dollar insurance scam that involved recruiting homeless people to deliberately fall and injure themselves.
Marc Elefant, 51, was the third defendant to admit guilt in the scam, which also involved a litigation-funding company and a doctor, federal prosecutors said in a statement Monday. Patients were recruited from shelters and offered money to undergo unnecessary surgeries and then charged for high-interest loans to cover medical fees.
“Elefant and his co-conspirators preyed upon the most vulnerable members of society in order to enrich themselves,”
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