Vegasmikey the sheep don't like you talking about him betting on here... baaa baaa baaataglia

you know Sheep is Lou Baretta and not Gary Battaglini right?

Most of what it says is nonsense. Throws alot of macaroni at the wall to see if it sticks.

Yea I guess mikeyo is trying to be funny. His name is Sheep, not "the sheep" btw. And him and Gary are two different people who live in two different states.
Obviously mikeyo is a formerly banned troll.

yea when I read it I was like wtf. It sounded funny though. "Baaa Baaa Bataglia" LOL.

Lol they can't seem to keep dicknose away

So who is your family? Or who do you claim to be related to either by marriage or biologically?

By George Anastasia
For Bigtrial.net

Ron Galati, the Don Corleone of the auto repair business, hit a trifecta this afternoon when he was indicted for a third time in an ongoing investigation by city, state and federal authorities.

The latest charges, announced by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, allege that the 63-year-old South Philadelphia auto body shop owner orchestrated an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that netted nearly $5 million for himself and his co-conspirators.

Those charged in the case included Galati's wife, Vicky, his son, Ron Jr. and Steven Ligambi, the 28-year-old son of mob boss Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi.

In all, 41 people have been charged and several have already agreed to cooperate, according to the District Attorney's Office which quoted one cooperator who said Galati would boast, "I live my life to cheat insurance companies. My high every day is to cheat insurance companies."


Galati is already facing murder for hire charges brought by the District Attorney's Office and attempted murder and conspiracy charges brought by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey. He has been held without bail since his arrest last year on charges that he solicited three hitmen to kill a father and son, rival auto body shop owners, who were apparently cooperating in the investigation that had targeted him.

Last month he was named in a federal indictment out of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Camden alleging that the same hitmen were solicited to kill the boyfriend of Galati's daughter Tiffany. The boyfriend was shot in Atlantic City, but survived.

Two of the hitmen, along with the boyfriend and Tiffany Galati are all believed to be cooperating in that case.

The indictment announced today was similar to a fraud case brought against Galati back in 1995 by federal authorities. He was convicted and served 37months in prison. This time, with the murder for hire and attempted murder charges, he is looking at a possible life sentence.

The charges painted a picture of an arrogant wheeler dealer who developed a systematic routine to cash in on phony insurance claims. Corrupt insurance company agents and one Philadelphia police officer were also charged.

Among other things, Galati's American Collision and Auto Center had a contract to repair Philadelphia Police Department vehicles.

The DA charged that Galati had five different fraud schemes and that he generated over a million dollars for himself and his wife. The DA alleged that while he and his wife claimed in grand jury testimony that they each were earning about $250-a-week, evidence would show that "Galati cashed over $1.2 million worth of checks" at a South Philadelphia check cashing center over the past several years.

The indictment alleges that over the past four years, insurance companies have issued $2.3 million for fraudulent claims filed as part of the Galati scheme. Authorities also allege that his shop obtained $1.8 million from the city after fraudulently obtaining a contract with the Philadelphia Office of Fleet Management.

The "pattern of fraudulent claims," sometimes made with customers who were part of the scam, involved damages resulting fictitious deer accidents, vandalism, damage due to falling objects and staged collisions. The DA cited Galati's "knack for designing creative accident scenarios and his network of rogue professionals who conspired with him to legitimize" the phony insurance claims.

The indictment alleged that "Galati favored deer hits, vandalism and vehicular damages from trajectory objects" because those would allow the car owner to claim "no fault" and would not result in an increase in the driver's insurance premium. Among other things, the DA alleged that witnesses said Galati "stored deer blood, hair and carcasses in the back of his shop." Those items were used "as props for what Galati deemed `Hollywood Photos'" that were submitted along with the fake insurance claims.

Other claims filed by Galati customers included reports that their cars had been struck by or collided with "geese, dogs, cartons of fruit, flying metal and falling concrete."

Galati, the DA said, would also stage collisions, using tow truck operators who were also charged and sometimes with the consent of the vehicle's owner. That scheme was similar to one laid out by mob associate Louis "Bent Finger" Monacello who testified this year in the racketeering trial of Ligambi and mobster George Borgesi.

In the 1990s, Monacello said, Galati would make a copy of customer's car key, then pay Borgesi to steal the car and crash it into another vehicle, also owned by a Galati customer. The "accidents" would generate more business for Galati's shop and more opportunities to inflate and falsify insurance claims. Monacello said he was on hand to drive a backup car and assist Borgesi in getting away after he had crashed the stolen vehicle.

Galati was convicted in 1995 for running those types of schemes. Neither Ligambi nor Borgesi were convicted in the cases at which Monacello testified.

The indictment also alleges that Galati's falsified documents in order to qualify for the city contract even though American Collision did not meet all the city contract specifications.

Authorities also alleged that the investigation, which was coordinated by Assistant District Attorney Dawn Holtz and conducted by Det. Robert DiFrancesco of the DA's Office and Trooper Michael Romano of the State Police Organized Crime Division, also linked Galati and co-defendant Philip Sessa to a boat stolen from a marina in Somer Point, NJ, and to the misappropriation of funds from an unidentified senior citizen's bank account.

Galati, who loved to quote lines from The Godfather, lived well on the money from his scams, the DA charged, often throwing "elaborate parties" at shorefront properties and "hosting expensive dinners" at local restaurants.

It was at an Italian restaurant in Northfield, NJ, authorities said, that Galati threatened his daughter's boyfriend shortly before the boyfriend was shot. The restaurant, now closed, was owned at the time by associates of Borgesi's.

"It wasn't a big place, but Galati liked to hold court there," said a source. "He thought he was Don Corleone."

George Anastasia can be contacted at George@bigtrial.net.
Read more at http://www.bigtrial.net/2014/05/galati-hits-trifecta-indicted-for-third.html#lAi5710b6eVBsb1R.99

People wandering through Ron Galati's South Philadelphia auto-body shop could be forgiven for thinking they'd stumbled upon an urban hunting lodge.

There were deer heads mounted on the walls and carcasses, fur, and blood stored in the back.

In reality, says Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, the shop was an elaborate staging area for a $5 million scheme that defrauded auto insurance companies and involved a police officer and city worker.

Galati - an alleged mob associate awaiting trial for paying to kill three people - was in the business, according to a grand jury, of "fictitious deer accidents."

He is accused of having workers pull weeds from the river bands at Penrose Avenue to create what Galati called "Hollywood photos" of bogus crashes.

And deer weren't the only props used, the prosecutor said Wednesday. There were geese and dogs and chunks of metal and concrete, as well as hurtled cartons of fruit.

Galati favored creating single-vehicle accidents because insurance companies would consider them "no-fault" and pay the claims without raising the vehicle owners' premiums, Williams contended.

According to grand jury witnesses, Galati would say: "I live my life to cheat insurance companies."

Galati, 63, was one of 41 people charged in the fraud after a 16-month investigation by a Philadelphia grand jury. Also charged were his wife, Vicki, 59, and their son Ron Jr., 37, who since 2000 has been the legal owner of his father's American Collision & Auto Center at 1930 S. 20th St.

Galati Sr.'s attorney, Anthony J. Voci Jr., said he could not comment specifically on the charges because he had not seen the presentment.

Voci also represents Galati Sr. on two other pending cases: an alleged contract to kill a grand jury witness and his son, and federal charges that he ordered the Nov. 30 shooting of his daughter's boyfriend in Atlantic City.

Among others charged in the insurance scheme were a former Philadelphia police officer, Douglas DiEmidio, 50, and Robert Otterson, 48, an employee and mechanic with the city's Office of Fleet Management.

According to the grand jury presentment, DiEmidio created false accident reports to help Galati "legitimize" bogus accidents.

DiEmidio was fired last year after being charged in an unrelated case with stealing $10,000 worth of electricity by tampering with the meter on his South Philadelphia home. He pleaded guilty in December in Common Pleas Court and was sentenced to three years' probation.

Otterson, a $49,000-a-year city employee, allegedly enabled American Collision to obtain a $1.8 million city contract by falsely certifying that the body shop had a specialized welder needed to work on city police cars.

In December, the city ended its contract with Galati's company after the Daily News reported his arrests in the three contracted hits and the existence of the insurance fraud probe.

City Managing Director Richard Negrin confirmed that Otterson still worked for the city, "but not for long. We're moving quickly to terminate him. . . ."

The defendants were charged with counts alleging operating a corrupt organization, conspiracy, insurance fraud, bid-rigging, and theft.

Assistant District Attorney Dawn Holtz, the prosecutor in the case, said 14 people have surrendered and agreed to cooperate in the prosecution.

Williams said the investigation of Galati began when two insurance companies, Erie and Progressive, contacted his office about suspicious behavior by insurance adjusters.

Cheryl Stanton, 58, of South Philadelphia, an appraiser for Erie Insurance, was accused of accepting cash and gifts from Galati to inflate estimates of crash damage.

Arthur Juliano, 37, of South Philadelphia, an appraiser for Allstate, was also charged with accepting cash from Galati.

Galati's name and business also figured in the federal racketeering conspiracy case against reputed mob capo George Borgesi. Last year, star prosecution witness Louis "Bent Finger Lou" Monacello regaled a federal jury in Philadelphia with tales of two young mobsters in their youth.

He and Borgesi, Monacello said, were paid by Galati to vandalize the cars of his own customers.

Galati would copy keys to cars brought into his shop for repair, and Borgesi would later find them parked on the street, steal them, and crash them into the other vehicles owned by Galati customers, Monacello said. The purported point of their vandalism: to create more work and potential insurance paydays for American Collision, the mobster said.


Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/201405...WE5LvXP5dlPb.99

41 Charged with Multi-Million Dollar Insurance Fraud Scam
By Tashaj4
May 28, 2014: District Attorney R. Seth Williams has charged Ronald Galati, Sr. and his co-conspirators for a nearly 5 (m) million dollar insurance fraud scheme. These charges are the result of a sixteen-month Grand Jury investigation of American Collision and Auto Center located at 1930 S. 20th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Grand Jury found that Galati and his confederates, which included a Philadelphia Police Officer, a city official, insurance company adjusters and tow truck drivers, engaged in an elaborate scam to defraud both insurance companies and Philadelphia taxpayers.
The investigation revealed that the Galati family used American Collision and Car One Rental as corrupt organizations from which to file fraudulent insurance claims for financial gain. During the past four years, victim insurance companies issued payments totaling over $2,311,288 in connection to fraudulent claims submitted from American Collision. The shop also received over 1.8 million dollars from the City of Philadelphia by fraudulently obtaining a contract with the Office of Fleet Management in February of 2011. Assistant District Attorney Dawn Holtz and Detective Robert DiFrancesco, both of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Insurance Fraud Unit, were assigned to this investigation in conjunction with Trooper Michael Romano of the Pennsylvania State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Organized Crime Division. Both Progressive and Erie Insurance Companies provided referrals and documentation which first brought American Collision’s suspicious claims to light.
American Collision established a pattern of filing fraudulent claims with insurance companies that would routinely fall into one of the following five scenarios: fictitious deer accidents, vandalism, vehicular damages due to falling objects, enhanced damages that compensated for waived deductibles and the use of luxury cars in staged collisions in order to generate large settlement checks. When crafting bogus accident claims, Galati favored deer hits, vandalism and vehicular damages from trajectory objects because each could be categorized as a non-fault accident for which the insured would not be held liable. In one particular situation, Galati coached a customer to report to his insurance company that he had struck a deer rather than admit that he had hit another car so that his insurer would assume responsibility without raising his rates. Multiple Grand Jury witnesses testified that Galati stored deer blood, hair and carcasses in the back of his shop. These deer remnants, along with weeds which American Collision employees were instructed to fetch from the Penrose Avenue river banks, served as props for what Galati deemed “Hollywood Photos,” or deceptive pictures of alleged vehicular damages which were submitted as part of insurance claims. In addition to deer hits, American Collision customers also filed claims alleging to have inadvertently collided with geese, dogs, cartons of fruit, flying metal and falling concrete.
Not only did Galati create imaginary accidents but he also deliberately staged collisions in order to generate business for his shop and to make money for his own personal benefit. Perhaps the most insidious of fraudulent claims filed at American Collision involved intentional vandalism orchestrated by Galati and conspirator tow truck drivers. Galati supplied local drivers with a list of vehicles owned by previous customers and would instruct the drivers to damage these cars in the early morning hours in order to create and secure business for his shop. Some clients were aware that the vandalism was deliberate, such as one cooperator who testified that he filed eleven fraudulent claims in conjunction with American Collision, nine of which were fabricated vandalism claims. In addition to vandalizing cars, Galati would also purchase luxury vehicles and pay his associates to deliberately crash cars into his parked BMW or Corvette. Galati discovered that financing these luxury vehicles through insurance fraud was an effective way to make car payments.
Galati achieved such success with filing fabricated claims due to his knack for designing creative accident scenarios and his network of rogue professionals who conspired with him to legitimize these claims. Galati enlisted the assistance of Philadelphia Police Officer Douglas DiEmidio, Erie Insurance Company adjuster Cheryl Stanton, Allstate Insurance Company adjuster Arthur Juliano, and local South Philadelphia tow truck drivers in order to substantiate his claims. Officer DiEmidio, who was stationed in the First District prior to his termination due to unrelated criminal charges, would write fraudulent Philadelphia Police Accident Reports for Galati so that American Collision could include district control numbers on claims submitted to insurance companies. Former adjusters Stanton and Juliano would write inflated estimates and submit paperwork for claims they knew were fictitious in exchange for cash, meats or other gifts. During the course of the investigation, eleven deer accident claims that had been approved by Stanton were submitted to Lange Technical Services for a Collision Damage Analysis. The report concluded that all eleven claims were fraudulent.
Galati also conspired with a City of Philadelphia Office of Fleet Management employee, Robert Otterson, who helped him fraudulently procure a lucrative city contract by falsifying documents, even though American Collision did not meet all contract requirements. All shops competing for a contract to repair city vehicles had to own a squeeze type resistance spot welder by the time its bid was submitted. The welder was required due to the composite metals which were used to manufacture City of Philadelphia Police Department Chevrolet Impalas. Despite the fact that American Collision did not own this welder at the time of the bid, they were awarded the contract and began to repair city vehicles, including the police cars. The investigation revealed that although Galati later purchased the welder, he never commissioned the electrical work necessary for the machinery to operate. Therefore, Galati never used the required welder at any point during his contract with the City of Philadelphia.
In addition to insurance fraud arrests, this investigation also resulted in uncovering a stolen boat which Philip Sessa and Galati took from a marina in Somers Point, New Jersey, and in the discovery of stolen funds which had been misappropriated from an elderly gentleman’s Bank of America account. Galati and three other men were also charged with attempted murder in December 2013 following a murder for hire that targeted Grand Jury witnesses. In spite of testifying in front the Grand Jury that he and his wife only earned two hundred and fifty dollars a week, Galati cashed over 1.2 (m) million dollars’ worth of checks at Whitman Check Cashing in South Philadelphia over the course of several years. Galati used the proceeds from his corrupt organization to throw elaborate parties at his shorefront properties and to fund expensive dinners at local restaurants. Cooperating conspirators from American Collision stated that Galati could often be heard repeating his favorite mantra: “I live my life to cheat insurance companies – my high every day is to cheat insurance companies.” The investigation revealed that Galati certainly did cheat insurance companies, as well as the City of Philadelphia, out of over two million dollars.
To date, fourteen persons have been arrested and charged with Insurance Fraud and related crimes in connection to American Collision. Many of those arrested and charged have agreed to cooperate with the ongoing investigation and have agreed to testify against Galati. We are in the process of arresting an additional twenty-seven involved in the conspiracy, for a total of forty-one arrests.

Others indicted by the Grand Jury:

Ronald Galati, Sr. of 2500 block of S. Garnett St – 63 years old
Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Dealing in Proceeds of Unlawful Activities (F1)
Conspiracy (F) 141 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 135 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 133 counts
Attempted Theft by Deception (F3) 2 counts
Bid-rigging (F3)
Securing Execution of Documents by Deception (M2)
Obstructing Administration of Law/Governmental Functions (M2)
Tampering With Public Records or Information (F3)

Vicki Galati of 2500 block of S. Garnett St- 59 years old

Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Conspiracy (F) 3 counts
Dealing in Proceeds of Unlawful Activities (F1)
Insurance Fraud (F3)
Theft by Deception (F3)

Ronald Galati, Jr. of 2500 block of S. Garnett St- 37 years old

Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Dealing in Proceeds of Unlawful Activities (F1)
Conspiracy (F) 4 counts
Perjury (F3)
Bid-rigging (F3)
Obstructing Administration of Law/Governmental Functions (M2)
Tampering with Public Records or Information (F3)
Securing Execution of Documents by Deception (M2)

William Reed of 1200 block of S. Newkirk- 36 years old

Conspiracy (F)
Insurance Fraud (F3)
Theft by Deception (F3)

Joseph Clark of 2500 of S. Garnett- 57 years old

Conspiracy (F) 2 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 2 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 2 counts

Troy Nixon of Yeadon- 42 years old

Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Conspiracy (F) 3 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 3 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 3 counts

Ronald Soffian of 1900 block of S. 20th- 66 years old

Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Conspiracy (F) 18 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 17 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 17 counts
Theft by Unlawful Taking (F3)

Philip Sessa of the 2300 block of S. 30th- 44 years old

Conspiracy (F)
Receiving Stolen Property (F3)

Douglas DiEmdieo of the 1600 block of S. 12th- 50 years old

Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Conspiracy (F) 4 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 3 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 3 counts
Obstructing Administration of Law/Governmental Function (M2) 3 counts
False Reports to Law Enforcement Authorities (M3) 3 counts

Cheryl Stanton of the 1700 block of Packer- 58 years old

Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Conspiracy (F) 37 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 36 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 36 counts

Arthur Juliano of the 2900 block of Juniper- 37 years old

Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Conspiracy (F) 8 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 7 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 7 counts

Jerome Johnson of the 5500 block of Upland- 45 years old

Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Insurance Fraud (F3) 3 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 2 counts
Conspiracy (F) 4 counts
Attempted Theft by Deception (F3)

Anayat Hosein of the 2000 block of Mercy- 56 years old

Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Conspiracy (F) 4 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 3 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 3 counts

John Finch of the 1600 block of Annis- 57 years old

Conspiracy (F)
Insurance Fraud (F3)
Attempted Theft by Deception (F3)

Robert Otterson of the 1900 block of S. 30th- 48 years old

Conspiracy (F) 4 counts
Bid-Rigging (F3)
Perjury (F3) 2 counts
Obstructing Administration of Law/Other Governmental Function (M1)
Tampering with Public Records or Information (F3)
Securing Execution of Documents by Deception (M2)

Joseph Fina of Williamstown, NJ- 67 years old

Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Insurance Fraud (F3) 6 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 6 counts
Conspiracy (F) 7 counts
Perjury (F3)

Steven Ligambi of the 3100 block of S. 17th- 28 years old

Conspiracy (F)
Insurance Fraud (F3)
Theft by Deception (F3)

William Weathers of the 1500 block of S. Opal- 36 years old

Conspiracy (F) 14 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 14 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 14 counts

Andre Speller of the 700 block of S. Marvine- 55 years old

Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Conspiracy (F) 17 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 16 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 16 counts

Victor Harry of the 1200 block of N. 58th- 45 years old

Corrupt Organizations (F1)
Conspiracy (F) 11 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 10 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 10 counts

Stephanie Dykes of the 1500 block of Opal- 55 years old

Conspiracy (F) 4 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 4 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 4 counts

Eric Dykes of the 2500 block of S. 75th- 58 years old

Conspiracy (F) 7 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 7 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 7 counts

Reynalda Dykes of the 2500 block of S. 75th- 54 years old

Conspiracy (F)
Insurance Fraud (F3)
Theft by Deception (F3)

Renee Taliaferro of the 1400 block of N. 29th- 57 years old

Conspiracy (F) 2 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 2 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 2 counts

Courtney McClees of the 7300 block of Meadow Lark- 45 years old

Conspiracy (F) 5 counts
Insurance Fraud (F3) 5 counts
Theft by Deception (F3) 5 counts

Donna Willis of the 4400 block of N. Gratz- 50 years old

Conspiracy (F)
Insurance Fraud (F3)
Theft by Deception (F3)

William Pomarico of the 1200 block of Mckean- 60 years old

Conspiracy (F)
Insurance Fraud (F3)
Theft by Deception (F3)