{"id":89653,"date":"2018-04-02T01:34:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T05:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89653"},"modified":"2018-04-02T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T13:15:04","slug":"owners-of-fulton-towing-company-arrested-on-insurance-fraud-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89653","title":{"rendered":"Owners of Fulton towing company arrested on insurance fraud charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89654\" style=\"width: 133px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-89654\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Stoutenger-Ralph-133x150.jpg?resize=133%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Stoutenger-Ralph.jpg?resize=133%2C150&amp;ssl=1 133w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Stoutenger-Ralph.jpg?resize=266%2C300&amp;ssl=1 266w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Stoutenger-Ralph.jpg?resize=400%2C451&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Stoutenger-Ralph.jpg?w=462&amp;ssl=1 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stoutenger, Ralph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89655\" style=\"width: 121px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-89655\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Stoutenger-Amy1-121x150.jpg?resize=121%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Stoutenger-Amy1.jpg?resize=121%2C150&amp;ssl=1 121w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Stoutenger-Amy1.jpg?resize=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1 243w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Stoutenger-Amy1.jpg?resize=400%2C495&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Stoutenger-Amy1.jpg?w=457&amp;ssl=1 457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stoutenger, Amy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Owners of Fulton towing company arrested on insurance fraud charges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>State police arrested\u00a0Amy Stoutenger, 48; and\u00a0Ralph A. Stoutenger, III, 49, both of Fulton, on charges of second-degree insurance fraud (a class C felony), first-degree offer to file false instrument (a class E felony), fraudulent insurance practices \u2013 Workers Compensation Law 114 sub 3 (a class E felony) and offering a false statement &#8211; Workers Compensation Law 96 (E-felony).<\/p>\n<p>The arrests are the result of an NYS Insurance Fund* investigation into Shameless Trucking, LLC, and Shameless Towing and Recovery, LLC, from 2014 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph and Amy Stoutenger, owners of the company, are accused of not paying approximately $319,013 in Worker Compensation Insurance.\u00a0The evidence consists of audits conducted by the State Insurance Fund, banking records and multiple employees who were paid in cash or by check during the aforementioned time period.<\/p>\n<p>The Stoutengers were arraigned in Fulton City Court and released on their own recognizance; they are scheduled to return to Fulton City Court at 9 a.m. May 24, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>*The New York State Insurance Fund is a governmental insurance carrier that provides workers&#8217; compensation and disability benefits for employers in New York state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of Fulton towing company arrested on insurance fraud charges State police arrested\u00a0Amy Stoutenger, 48; and\u00a0Ralph A. Stoutenger, III, 49, both of Fulton, on charges of second-degree insurance fraud (a class C felony), first-degree offer to file false instrument (a class E felony), fraudulent insurance practices \u2013 Workers Compensation Law 114 sub 3 (a class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/state-police-seal-150x150.jpg?fit=226%2C226&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-nk1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}