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Joey Buttafuoco made national headlines once again Dec. 17 after undercover agents attended his training seminar in Chatsworth on how to file a false claim and how to best scam an insurance company.

Buttafuoco and 10 others were hauled in last week in an auto insurance fraud sting that involved the Los Angeles County DA’s office, the California Department of Insurance, the California Bureau of Automotive Repair, the California Attorney General’s Office and the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

Buttafuoco, the owner of California Collision, an auto body shop was charged with three counts of insurance fraud and one count of grand theft and held in lieu of $50,000 bail. If convicted on all counts he could end up spending six years in a state prison.

Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley said, “We want to slam the brakes on insurance fraud in California that costs consumers and companies millions of dollars annually with this kind of ongoing targeted investigation and prosecution.” 

It was in the early ’90s when Buttafuoco garnered the attention of the press when his 17-year-old girlfried/prostitute Amy Fisher, referred to as the “Long Island Lolita” shot his wife in the face at their Long Island home. Fisher ended up spending seven years in prison for her actions and Buttafuoco was locked up for six months for statutory rape.