Did FBI employees admit to insurance fraud?

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September 26, 2020
Did FBI employees admit to insurance fraud?
By Andrea Widburg

On Thursday, in his continued effort to get his case dismissed, Michael Flynn filed a third brief supporting the original dismissal claim.  This made waves because it included texts among FBI analysts in which they admitted that they knew the investigation against Michael Flynn was unfounded and driven by partisan animus.  The text messages might have revealed more than that: one texter confessed that those involved bought professional liability insurance after becoming afraid that news might leak about their conduct.  They might have committed insurance fraud if they didn't let the insurance companies know they had already committed wrongful acts.

There are multiple types of insurance fraud.  Most people are familiar with cases in which people commit arson against their property or even murder someone to collect insurance.

Another form of insurance fraud takes place at the time of purchase.  Insurance exists to cover against possible future incidents.  A person cannot buy insurance to cover a known past incident.  That's not insurance; that's just cost-shifting.  If someone knowingly and intentionally "forgets" to tell the insurance company about an existing claim, and then seeks to recover on it, that's an actionable fraud.  Indeed, it's a two-tiered fraud because there's fraud in both the purchase and the claim.

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[PeteS in CA]

Maybe @Jazzhead could elucidate or correct me, but AFAIK buying the insurance was pointless rather than fraudulent. Had they made a claim and lied about the date of the cause(s) of action, that would be insurance fraud. It may also be that if what the agents did was illegal the insurance could not cover it. So if they lied about the illegality (speaking hypothetically), that also would be insurance fraud.