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(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Rita Villadiego, Contributor
NEW YORK-After being jailed for a year in the Philippines for insurance fraud that he committed in the United States, former Quezon Gov. Eduardo Rodriguez has been sentenced by a Los Angeles court to three years and eight months in jail and ordered to return $101,033 to US-based insurance companies.
In a decision handed down last April 28, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bob Bowers said Rodriguez committed insurance fraud and grand theft when he illegally collected $150,000 in insurance claims.
Rodriguez had claimed that his wife, Imelda, and her mother, Gloria Gener, had died. But both women were alive when Rodriguez filed the claims, the "Filipino Express" newspaper reported.
Rodriguez, who is to serve his jail term in a California state prison, ...