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Plant City Woman Charged In Insurance-Fraud Crackdown

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Published: February 12, 2009

Robbin Broadnax

TAMPA - A day-care owner accused of forging insurance certificates to receive about $38,000 in state money is among more than 100 people sought statewide this week on insurance-fraud charges, officials said.

The weeklong operation stretches from Pensacola to Miami and accuses those sought of stealing or conspiring to steal about $3.5 million in insurance premiums, according to the Department of Financial Services' Division of Insurance Fraud.

Alex Sink, the state's chief financial officer, joined state investigators in Plant City today for the arrest of Robbin Broadnax, 31, owner of Little Explorers, a day care center at 301 E. Alsobrook St.

Investigators said Broadnax forged two certificates of insurance and submitted them to the school-readiness program in Polk County to receive early education tax dollars totaling $38,328.

If a child at the day care center had been hurt, there would have been no insurance coverage to pay for injuries, investigators said.

Broadnax was being booked into the Orient Road Jail this afternoon. She will be charged with forgery and grand theft. If convicted, she faces up to 30 years in prison, investigators said.Other people sought in the operation are accused of workers' compensation fraud, mortgage fraud, auto-insurance fraud from staged traffic crashes and from fraudulent insurance claims, and misappropriation of funds.

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