FOX 11 Investigates: How money is being laundered right under your nose

Getting into a car accident is a pain from start to finish; the repairs, being injured, arguing with your insurance company, maybe seeing your rates skyrocket. It's so much nicer when you just make the whole thing up.

Just tell the insurance company somebody hit you. Get a friend to play the other driver. Convince a chiropractor to bill for a bunch of treatments that never happened and find a body shop to repair your car which never got a scratch. Then just collect thousands over and over and over!

Yep, fraud pays and Fox 11 Investigates found out how much. But the stinger is where we found millions of dollars in checks allegedly being laundered. The same thing could be happening right under your nose… and you'd never know it.

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