Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Insurance Fraud Case
A Los Angeles lawyer who worked for the alleged mastermind of a multimillion-dollar insurance fraud pleaded guilty Tuesday and agreed to cooperate with the government, a development prosecutors described as significant.
Gregory S. Bodell, 34, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, becoming the fifth attorney and eighth person convicted in the case, which involves a network of Los Angeles-area lawyers prosecutors have called “The Alliance.” The government contends that they cheated insurance companies out of $50 million in legal fees by manipulating lawsuits in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.
The Bodell plea, entered in federal court in San Diego, is the first since the indictment last month of 18 defendants, including Bodell’s former boss, Lynn B. Stites, whom the government has accused of running the scheme.
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