People v. Dybdahl

Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant was convicted of insurance fraud in the third degree (Penal Law former § 176.10) based upon his submission of an insurance claim for property damage done to the windows on his wife’s automobile. In making the claim under his wife’s policy, he maintained that the damage was done by vandals in a parking lot of a restaurant in North Collins when, in fact, defendant intentionally damaged the vehicle while it was parked in a parking lot of a bar in the Town of Evans. The People established that defendant gave materially false information to the…