Staged Accidents 1st Modern Medical Assembly Azriel Benaroya Emma Benjamin Alan Blumen Alexandra Brodsky Vasiliki Kadianakis Vladimir Kirkorov Lane Medical Aydin Nurizade Operation Sideswipe Milton Smith Leonid Stutzky Huseyin Tuncel Valery Uskach George Vishnevetsky Action Date: January 14, 2004 Location: Brooklyn, NY On January 14, 2004, multiple indictments were announced in a major staged-accident ring. The defendants include two lawyers, eight medical doctors, two Queens medical clinics, a Brooklyn law firm, a psychologist, a chiropractor, a physician's assistant and two physical therapists. Also charged were six alleged runners, ten alleged jump-ins and a law office manager. According to the charges, the two-year investigation – Operation Sideswipe – uncovered evidence that a group of over 30 individuals – including attorneys, medical doctors and other licensed medical professionals – medical clinics in Forest Hills and Richmond Hill, Queens, a law firm in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn and an ambulate transportation corporation in Borough Park, Brooklyn engaged in various schemes using middlemen and runners to submit false claims to insurance companies of over $236,000 by staging automobile accidents, submitting insurance claims for property damage, medical and bodily injury that contained false and exaggerated information, ordering expensive and baseless diagnostic tests and equipment, and filing fraudulent lawsuits. The defendants were charged with Insurance Fraud, Grand Larceny, Falsifying Business Records, Tampering With Public Records, Falsely Reporting an Incident and Conspiracy The defendants include: attorneys Alan Blumen; George Vishnevetsky; Azriel Benaroya; Emma Benjamin; Alexandra Brodsky; Vasiliki Kadianakis; Vladimir Kirkorov; Leonid Slutsky; Milton Smith; and Huseyin Tuncel. The indictments charge that the schemes involved two medical clinics – Lane Medical and 1st Modern Medical Care, two lawyers, George Vishnevetsky and Alan Blumen, and two law firm employees, Aydin Nurizade and Valery Uskach.