{"id":47341,"date":"2024-07-31T19:46:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T22:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=47341"},"modified":"2024-07-31T19:46:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T22:46:30","slug":"east-hants-man-charged-following-major-insurance-fraud-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=47341","title":{"rendered":"East Hants man charged following major insurance fraud investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TENNECAPE<\/strong>: A 36-year-old man from this Hants North area community has been charged following an investigation by Nova Scotia RCMP&#8217;S Commercial Crime Section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said the investigation was looking into a major insurance fraud incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 9, 2023, East Hants RCMP received information indicating that trustees of a local ironworkers\u2019 union had been defrauded through the submission of false health benefit claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation was taken over by the Nova Scotia RCMP Commercial Crime Section, and assisted by the East Hants RCMP Street Crime Enforcement Unit (SCEU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the course of the investigation, it was determined that a member of the union had submitted over 300 false insurance claims over a seven-month period in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 19, 2024, Thomas Leroy Harvie, 36, of Tennecape, was formally charged with two counts of Fraud Over $5,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will appear in Shubenacadie Provincial Court on September 5, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File # 2023-682703<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;218&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;] TENNECAPE: A 36-year-old man from this Hants North area community has been charged following an investigation by Nova Scotia RCMP&#8217;S Commercial Crime Section. Police said the investigation was looking into a major insurance fraud incident. On May 9, 2023, East Hants RCMP received information indicating that trustees of a local ironworkers\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[196,967,7133,14,5127],"class_list":["post-47341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-east-hants","tag-hants-north","tag-insurance-fraud","tag-rcmp","tag-tennecape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}