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# Torched Cars In Midwood May Be Part Of Insurance Scam
- URL: https://bklyner.com/torched-cars-in-midwood-may-be-part-of-insurance-scam-bensonhurst/
- Published: 2012-01-11T15:53:32.000Z
- Updated: 2012-01-11T15:53:32.000Z
- Author: jteutonico
- Tags: ave i, ave j, hoax, insurance scam, #API-Imported

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Photo Credit: Paul Martinka via New York Post

Three cars [found torched and scrawled with anti-Semitic graffiti](http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2011/11/midwood-hate-crime-3-cars-torched-swastikas-found/?ref=bklyner.com) on Ocean Parkway in Midwood last November may be part of an insurance scam, and not a hate crime as the media had originally reported.

This morning’s [New York Post](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/torched%5Fcars%5Fcrime%5Fklyn%5Fnabe%5Fpart%5FJg5TYpzJw6hndxPrRw9N7I?ref=bklyner.com) quotes an anonymous community source who says that NYPD investigators suspected the crime was a hoax from the beginning.

“From day one, cops didn’t believe that it was an anti-Semitic incident because you never see Swastikas and KKK signs together,” said one community source who works closely with the police. “The cops believe that it’s a possible insurance scam — a cover up,” said the source.

Do you think the vandalism done to the [Avenue J subway station on the B/Q line](http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2011/11/vandals-turn-ave-j-station-into-ave-jew-pols-condemn-as-anti-semitism/?ref=bklyner.com), as well as the [curiously spelled graffiti](http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2011/11/marine-park-anti-semitic-graffiti-coleman-st/?ref=bklyner.com) in Marine Park could also be frauds?