HOUSTON (AP) — Two individuals have been sentenced for their roles in a scheme that authorities say defrauded insurance companies of more than $3 million.
Earlie Dickerson, a former office manager, was sentenced Monday in Houston federal court to 14 years in prison for recruiting individuals involved in auto accidents to be represented by a Bryan business that falsely claimed was a law firm.
Federal prosecutors say Dickerson sent individuals he recruited to specific chiropractic clinics, where they received medically unnecessary therapeutic treatments.
Authorities say Dickerson used fraudulent bills from the treatments to obtain settlement checks from auto insurance companies.
Another individual convicted in the scheme, Marion Young, was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday.
Two others were previously sentenced while a fifth defendant is set to be sentenced Oct. 14.
