A man was arrested just outside Harrisburg, Penn., and charged with forging his wife’s signature on loan applications and insurance papers so he could buy six cars with a total value of more than $183,000, according to an announcement by Attorney General Tom Corbett.
Everett Frank was already imprisoned at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill when agents from the Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Section arrested him on the car-buying charges.
He was also already estranged from his wife, Michelle Frank. Neither situation is expected to see much improvement in the near future.
Frank didn’t have the credit to buy the cars on his own, so he allegedly persuaded the dealership to let him take the paperwork home so his wife could sign them. He then returned with Michelle Frank’s forged signature on the loan applications, falsified insurance documents and also gave them a copy of her driver’s license without her knowledge.
In addition to the charges that first landed Frank in prison, he now faces six counts of ID theft, 12 counts of forgery, six counts of insurance fraud (providing false, incomplete or misleading information), six more counts of insurance fraud (presenting false information to a government agency) and one count of theft by deception.
If convicted on all 31 charges, Frank could face up to 127 years of prison and $105,000 in fines.
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Well that doesn’t sound like a very good husband to me. I think I would get as far from that man as I could. Well I probably would get life lock and then move away was far as I could. I don’t know why woman stay together with these kind of people. I wouldn’t put up with it.
When I read that this clown and his wife were estranged, I wondered all sorts of stuff: how long were they married? what did this clown do to lead to their estrangement? why in the world did she marry this clown in the first place????
My daughter was involved with a psycho. When they broke up he stole her birth certificate, Social Security card, credit cards and driver’s license. I wonder, too, how often it happens that someone steals this kind of stuff as a “memento” at the end of a relationship?
She’s probably as much a scam artist as he is! Water seeks its own level. It would be ironic if she is an identity thief too, and just never thought to get identity theft protection to protect her from her husband!
Yeah it seems that those kind of people stick together and in some respects deserve each other. Sometimes I wonder why people stay together through situations like this. Maybe the are both equally bad.
If he gets sentenced to 127 years in prison I don’t think he is going to be getting out anytime soon. I have always wanted to know how do people who are in jail pay off their fines. Does the state sell their stuff until they have the money?