12 Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 25 June '86

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Houghton Get 8 Years $1.2 Million Restitution

By GREGG LAWSON SEA ISLE CITY - Joseph and Donna (Livoy) Houghton, owners of 5911 Pleasure Ave., probably will be selling that expensive beach block property after being sentenced for their role in a $1.4-million insurance-fraud scheme. "I think they're going to have to sell it," said U.S. Postal Inspector David Fast in Philadelphia. "I think it is up to him (Joseph Houghton). There was no order in the judge's sentence that stipulated whether he has to forfeit the property." Houghton, 43, of Plymouth Meeting. Pa., was sentenced to eight years in prison in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia last Friday, ordered to make $1.2 million in restitution and fined $23,000. His wife Donna, 40, received a suspended jail sentence and five years probation. She was also ordered to pay $14,000 in fines and a special assessment of $50. FAST CALLED HOUGHTON "the mastermind" of a 10-year scam that bilked $1.4 million from 34 insurance companies. U According to indictments handed down last September, the Houghtons and five others since 1975 have staged automobile accidents and fabricated injuries using aliases and false identification.

They falsified insurance claims, forged checks, and lied to insurance personnel, medical investigators, medical personnel, lawmen and a grand jury. The indictments also charged that the seven defendants used the scam money to buy expensive homes, cars and boats for enticing others into their schemes. THE HOUGHTONS; Donna Houghton's father, Frank Livoy, 65, and sister, Lynda Livoy, 36, both of Collingdale, Delaware County, Pa ; Nancy Cohan, 23, of Norristown, Montgomery County, Pa., and John Cassidy, 43, and his wife. Kathleen, 37, both of Cornwells Heights, Bucks County, Pa., were convicted last month of 71 counts of mail fraud. The other five all received sentences of probation. Two were also ordered to pay fines and make restitution to the insurance companies. Frank Livoy was fined $12,000 and ordered to make restitution of $227,000. John Cassidy was fined $12,000 and ordered to make restitution of $91,000. Veterans Warned Of Hoax RIO GRANDE - A war- ■ ning that a recently cirI culated letter regarding an ■ insurance refund for World I War II veterans is a hoax I has been issued by John M. I Moran, director of the I county Veterans Bureau. I Veterans are advised to I ignore the letter, which acI cording to a representative I of the Veterans AdI ministration Insurance Center in Philadelphia, appears every year at about this time. The phony letter states that a bill was passed recently by Congress providing for a dividend based on the amount of the policy and length of service. There is no such bill, and there is no such dividend, states the VA. The reason for disseminating the false information has not been determined. EARTH n sea 4UNIQUE SHELL AND GIFT ITEmS OPEN DAILY 261-263 96th St. Harbor Square mall Stone Harbor

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