United States v. Pimental

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

GERTNER, District Judge.

This case arises from one of several prosecutions brought in this district by the United States Attorney’s Office at the behest of the Insurance Fraud Board of Massachusetts (“IFB”), a state-chartered but privately maintained organization created to investigate and police insurance fraud.

In this instance the IFB and U.S. Attorneys have focused on husband and wife Arthur and Loretta Pimental, who own and maintain a small, some might say a “mom-and-pop” construction business, for mail fraud. The indictment alleges that the Pimentals conspired to and…