Man who faked his death to avoid prison gets prison

A Minnesota man trying to avoid a prison sentence  for an $11.5 million insurance fraud decided to fake his own death, but he was  found out and sentenced on Monday to 12 years and eight months in prison.

In May 2011, Travis Scott pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering after filing a false insurance claim.

As part of  the claim, he received $9.5 million for losses and got another $1.9 million for business interruption.

In order to convince people he was dead, Scott ground up some of his teeth, extracted pints of his own blood and pulled out pieces of his hair.  Full Article 

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