(Need Cash Pay Bills) Funeral director charged with fraud in bills for Lawrence boy's rites - Eagle Tribune
LAWRENCE — When her 11-year-old son Dario Rodriguez died after being struck by a car while crossing Route 114 last October, Viviana Resto had him buried in a pauper’s grave at Bellevue Cemetery for $1,500 because she couldn’t afford a traditional funeral. Three days later, Resto said she received a bill totaling $11,751 from funeral director Manolito “Manny” Diaz, a partner in the Diaz-Healey Funeral Home on South Broadway. On Friday, after months of investigation by the city’s auto insurance fraud task force, Diaz, 28, of Lawrence received a summons to appear in court this week to face charges of auto insurance fraud, attempted larceny over $250 and forgery. The task force consists of a handful of Lawrence police detectives working with investigators from the insurance industry-funded Insurance Fraud Bureau of Massachusetts. After members of the auto fraud task force met with Resto, the Insurance Fraud Bureau requested the case file from Safety Insurance, the company that insured the driver who hit her son. Learn more
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