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- September 2, 1994
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
09-02-1994
ON THIS DATE
Date: 09-02-1994, Friday
Section: NEWS
Edition: All Bergen Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early
Column: ON THIS DATE
In 1993, a statewide 30-month-long police undercover investigation
called "Operation Pad" nabbed 17 auto body shops for insurance fraud --
one in five probed for paying claims adjusters to overestimate repair
costs, and thus bilking insurance companies of thousands of dollars.
Three of the shops were in Bergen County.
In 1972, great expectations surrounded Wankel's revolutionary
rotary engine the RO-80, manufactured by Wood-Ridge's Curtiss-Wright
Corp., the county's third largest employer. Invented in ...