Alan Petrie is a corrupt defense attorney who led an auto-insurance fraud ring alongside his legal partner Richard Sanders.
History[]
Petrie and Sanders convinced Dr. Jerome Raleigh to help them defraud auto insurance companies. Raleigh then in turn recruited moving company owner Bill Reed, who employed illegal immigrants, to stage auto accidents using his employees. They intentionally loaded cars full of immigrants and targeted expensive-looking cars as they would be more likely to have higher insurance premiums. The immigrants were instructed to claim they suffered soft tissue damage to the authorities. Petrie and Sanders would then defend them, and the immigrants would go to Raleigh for "treatment".
Petrie and Sanders would keep most of the money from the settlements and gave a portion of the money to Raleigh. Raleigh, who also got money through kickbacks from the insurance settlements, in turn gave a portion of that money to Reed as a finder's fee for every immigrant recruited. Reed would pay the immigrants with a small portion of that portion. This scheme was undiscovered until the death of Hector Santiago, a participant who would later die due to injuries sustained in one of the accidents.
After Santiago's body was discovered and Reed admitted to Petrie and Sanders being the masterminds behind the fraud scheme, Petrie and Sanders were arrested and faced murder charges. Despite Petrie's and Sanders's efforts to cast themselves as supporters of the working class, EADA McCoy and ADA Carmichael would later bring in Mrs. N'Dabe, whose husband was also killed in one of the staged accidents, to testify against them. He and Sanders were found guilty of second-degree murder and were each sentenced to 20 years in prison. (L&O: "Whiplash")