Five Jackson daycare centers swindled (allegedly).
Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney issued the following statement.
Daniel Finnegan and his wife, Sherri Finnegan, were arrested on Wednesday, August 21, 2024, at their home in Smith County and booked into the county jail. They face charges of False Pretense and violation of the Mississippi Fire Prevention Code in at least 13 counties. The couple is accused of installing faulty and used fire suppression systems in commercial kitchens.
The systems did not work and were not tested before being placed into service, putting people at risk in the event of fire. Mr. Finnegan was also tagging fire extinguishers without testing them and was repainting and replacing parts on used fire extinguishers and selling them as new. Mr. Finnegan and his wife operated their business without registering with the Secretary of State. The business, Finnegan’s Fire Safety Equipment, was based in Pelahatchie.
Finnegan sold many systems to daycares and other businesses. While some of those businesses are known, the State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO) is asking others who bought systems from Finnegan to call 601-359-1061 to report their experience. The SFMO will provide resources to those businesses so they can replace the faulty systems with new ones, using reputable companies.
The SFMO, with the assistance of the Smith County Sheriff’s Office, served a search warrant at the couple’s home in Smith County Thursday morning. Based on information found during that search, more than 50 charges are pending in Adams, Covington, Hinds, Jones, Jefferson, Leake, Madison, Newton, Rankin, Warren, Winston, and Yazoo Counties, in addition to charges in Smith County.
Kingfish note: The alleged victims in Jackson are I See Success Learning Center, Little Explorers Daycare, Ambitious Academy, Young World Learning Center, and Caiden's Christian Academy.
11 comments:
As white collar crimes go, putting babies at risk of burning to death for profit is definitely right up there at the top of the moral reprehensibility scale.
This is horrible. I hope they enjoy Club Parchman.
considering the background and location of the finnigans fraud racket this should be referred to as white trash red neck crime rather that white collar crime.
Good job Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney! Hit them with the full gavel of the law!
This is horrible to put children’s lives at risk for $$ to line their pockets.
Furthermore, day care centers should NOT be weaning little kids on highly processed crap fried in giant cheap seed oil filled vats unless you want to grow our chronically diseased population. RFKJr.
Token white grifters.
Pelahatchie, you say.
Anytime my wife and I are out in some sort of crowd, no matter the venue, and we come upon a group resembling 'Valley of The Walking Dead', one of just says the word, "Pelahatchie" and we both bust out laughing, in case somebody else hears us and has no clue.
Good job Comish, it's hard to think that they would target this group!
Makes me think liar, liar, pants on fire 🔥
Flipping channels last week, I stopped on a news story about some airport something, just to gawk at the people. Every single person in this minutes-long story, looked as you've described - a whole airport full of them - and with no exceptions. Has our whole nation gone Pelahatchie?
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