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FRAUD CHARGES BROUGHT.


Byline: Daily News

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 man could face up to five years in state prison and $50,000 in fines for asking the wrong guy to steal his truck, the state's insurance commissioner said Friday.

Eric Joseph Horvat, 28, was arrested Feb. 23 by investigators with the state Department of Insurance fraud division on suspicion of staging the theft of his 2006 Ford F-150 truck in a scheme to defraud To make a Misrepresentation of an existing material fact, knowing it to be false or making it recklessly without regard to whether it is true or false, intending for someone to rely on the misrepresentation and under circumstances in which such person does rely on it to his or  his auto insurance carrier of $45,000, Commissioner Steve Poizner Stephen L. "Steve" Poizner (born January 4 1957) is a California businessman and Republican politician, who has been the elected State Insurance Commissioner of California since January 8 2007.  said.

Horvat was charged with two felonies -- insurance fraud and perjury perjury (pûr`jərē), in criminal law, the act of willfully and knowingly stating a falsehood under oath or under affirmation in judicial or administrative proceedings.  after a police report revealed that Horvat offered $3,000 to an undercover officer to steal his car.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Mar 3, 2007
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