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Suspicious Person

Police in Plainville, Conn., summarize the case this way: Brian Borry, 43, a care-giver for a disabled woman, hatched a plot with the woman to bill Medicaid for extra care hours, and they would split the ill-gotten gains. Borry then submitted 27 fraudulent claims for a total of $15,065, even though he only did about $6,600 worth of care for the woman, who deposited the resulting reimbursement checks. How did the police figure all of this out? Borry told them; he went to the police station to complain, since the woman didn’t pay him his full share, he says, and he was upset because he would have to pay taxes on the whole amount. He was arrested and charged with fraud. (RC/WVIT West Hartford) ...Officers might next look into his education: that he has a high school diploma sounds like an even bigger fraud.