Glendale attorney John Akopian faces about 40 charges of auto insurance fraud

March 31, 2011 - 11:13 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Prosecutors on Wednesday, March 30, filed additional charges against a Glendale attorney who already faces 38 counts in connection with a 2009 auto insurance fraud investigation.

The 39-year-old attorney, John Akopian, was charged with nine more counts of insurance fraud in a case in which he allegedly filed bogus claims for staged collisions, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

He also faces an enhanced charge of aggravated while collar crime.

Akopian, along with a group of chiropractors and attorneys, were charged in October 2009 in connection with defrauding 15 insurance companies.

He has already been charged with grand theft of personal property, money laundering, insurance fraud, possessing an assault weapon and receiving stolen property, Glendale New-Press reported.

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