Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BOSTON, March 4 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts man is charged with faking injury to the same tooth in order to collect some $36,000 in insurance payments from restaurants, prosecutors say. Tod Schaffer, 42, of Brookline, Mass., is accused of placing pebbles or fragments of plastic into food at Boston restaurants in order to claim injuries to a broken upper front tooth, the Boston Globe reported Wednesday. Advertisement Schaffer's repeated claims came to the attention of an investigator for Great American Insurance Co. that insured five of the restaurants Shaffer is accused of defrauding. Eventually the investigation was expanded to include 14 insurance companies, 10 restaurants and several hospitals and banks. Prosecutors say Schaffer used false names on insurance claim forms but made the mistake of putting down the same cell phone number. He has been charged with 19 counts of insurance fraud and 10 counts of larceny over $250.
