American insurance company Motors Insurance has launched a legal battle against the FBI and the Justice Department, suing them for $750,000 in an incredible story of a stolen and damaged Ferrari.
The incident happened in May 2009, when FBI special agent Frederick C. Kingston, accompanied by assistant attorney J. Hamilton Thompson, accidentally crashed the famous Ferrari F50. The car had been declared stolen by a dealer in September 2003, who received compensation from his insurance company, Motors Insurance, to whom ownership of the vehicle was automatically transferred.
Five years later, local authorities and the FBI found the vehicle in Kentucky. The FBI seized the F50 for the duration of the investigation, in the hopes of solving the case. After the misadventure, Motors Insurance filed a claim against the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice for $750,000, the estimated value of the vehicle. The agencies both rejected the claim twice, in March and then September of 2010, because, they said, the vehicle was being retained by the FBI.
Since then, Motors Insurance has invoked the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the documents relating to the use, custody, possession and/or storage of the Ferrari. A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said this week that the “the claim will need to be studied more closely to determine which actions are to be taken”.
Source: Detroit News
The incident happened in May 2009, when FBI special agent Frederick C. Kingston, accompanied by assistant attorney J. Hamilton Thompson, accidentally crashed the famous Ferrari F50. The car had been declared stolen by a dealer in September 2003, who received compensation from his insurance company, Motors Insurance, to whom ownership of the vehicle was automatically transferred.
Five years later, local authorities and the FBI found the vehicle in Kentucky. The FBI seized the F50 for the duration of the investigation, in the hopes of solving the case. After the misadventure, Motors Insurance filed a claim against the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice for $750,000, the estimated value of the vehicle. The agencies both rejected the claim twice, in March and then September of 2010, because, they said, the vehicle was being retained by the FBI.
Since then, Motors Insurance has invoked the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the documents relating to the use, custody, possession and/or storage of the Ferrari. A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said this week that the “the claim will need to be studied more closely to determine which actions are to be taken”.
Source: Detroit News