Stockton Farmer Convicted of Crop Insurance Fraud
Torlai Gregory Jr. was found guilty of making false statements in a scheme to collect $ 400,000 from a taxpayer-backed insurance designed to help farmers to survive when nature destroys crops. A federal jury convicted Stockton farmer Gregory P. Jr Torlai to defraud the government by submitting fraudulent insurance claims to try to collect $ 400,000 from a taxpayer-backed insurance designed to help farmers to survive when nature destroys crops.
Torlai, 49, was found guilty in Sacramento on all 16 counts of making false statements in a scheme for three private insurance companies and the U.S.
it had many seeds he had purchased and the number of acres of wheat, safflower and other crops he had planted in Welding, San Joaquin and Contra Costa counties lied. Loss adjusters and federal inspectors, who looked to our advantage Torlai states, had found fields with rocks, knee-high sagebrush and garbage pits – but no signs of destroyed crops. Torlai was released on his own instrument to guarantee a sentencing hearing on May 3. He faces up to 30 years in prison, but prosecutors said he was probably as long a sentence to receive. He also faces a $ 1 million fine. We hope this verdict sends a message that the program is designed for hard-working farmers who suffer from the vicissitudes of nature to support, and it is not a treasure chest open to fraudsters.