Bugatti Veyron owner who drove into lagoon admits fraud, faces 20 years in prison
The Texas man who drove his $1 million Bugatti Veyron into a lagoon as an insurance scam five years ago may soon have to pay for his crime in federal prison.
The U.S. attorney in Lufkin, Texas, said Tuesday that Andy House, 39, had pled guilty to one count of wire mail fraud in a federal criminal case filed two weeks ago. House’s sentencing has not been set, but the maximum penalty under the law is 20 years in prison.
You may recall the story from November 2009, when a passer-by recorded video of the Veyron running into the Gulf Bay near La Marque, Texas. House said at the time he had been distracted by a pelican and his cellphone when the Veyron went for a dip.
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But House’s story quickly started to spring leaks, beginning with a video shot by a passerby in another car showing no birds near the Bugatti. Investigators later discovered that shortly after buying the Veyron for $1 million in October 2009, House had insured it for $2.2 million — and that he had left the W-16, quad-turbocharged engine running for 15 minutes after submerging the car to ensure its destruction. There is a cell phone video that I didn’t include in this story. It does not show the brake lights coming on nor does is show a bird or pelican near the car as the driver reported. The car was sold for salvage some 16 months later.
House and his insurer — whom he accused of misleading him in writing the policy on the Veyron —settled their lawsuit last year. House owned a business repairing exotic cars before launching his watery Bugatti adventure, and he as much as anyone should have known it’s hard to pull off a scam in a car that you can’t help but watch the video.
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