"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times

“Our Own Phony Patient Is Hospitalized and Discovers the Hospital Is a Mirage"

Byline: Pamela Zekman, Gene Mustain; 1980-02-18; Chicago Sun Times; pages 6-7

Report: "The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman, Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times and WLS-TV

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"The patient was a Sun-Times reporter posing as an auto-accident victim. The Associated Physicians' Clinic had just invented injuries for him. Now it was sending him to Community Hospital of Evanston, where nearly all the patients are equally phony. . . "

Description:Sun-Times sting on the Community Hospital of Evanston, where an insurance fraud scam was in operation.

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