Sunday, February 27, 2011

FBI being sued for crashing a Ferrari


The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice have landed in hot water over the destruction of a Ferrari F50. According to The Detroit News, the vehicle was made by a dealer in Rosemont, Pennsylvania in 2003, and the dealer and stole insurance claim for the sum of $ 750,000 at the time as reported. Based in Michigan Motors Insurance Corp. shelled for the cash, and in August 2008, the FBI recovered the vehicle in Kentucky. At that time, the FBI saved the car while waiting to pursue the thief, at least until someone decided to the Bureau to use it for a small local foliage.
The Ferrari F50 lost control and struck a tree with an FBI special agent behind the wheel in May 2009, and Motors Insurance Corp. subsequently filed a claim both the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice for the full year is $ 750,000. Both parties rejected the claim under the pretext that the Ferrari was being arrested by the FBI at the time of the incident.
The insurance company then on the filing Freedom of Information Act requests for documents relating to the storage, transport and handling of the Italian exotic, most of which were denied by federal law exceptions or put simply ignored. The company has managed a hold of an e-mail that the U.S. Deputy Attorney General J. Hamilton Thompson with Special Agent Frederick C. Kingston rode on the day of the accident and that the vehicle and slid sideways fishtailed shortly after leaving the FBI warehouse have said.
Motors Insurance Corp. is now suing both release the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI on the rest of the records of the vehicle.

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