A businessman whose company has been linked to high-profile attorney Mike Morse has pled guilty in federal court to an "auto accident victim solicitation scheme" that used illegally obtained police reports. While the plea agreement does not name Morse, a separate civil lawsuit claims Morse did business with the company, Accident Information Bureau.
Attorney Mike Morse (Photo: Facebook)
Jayson Rosett, 51, of Bloomfield Hills pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Flint as part of a deal with federal prosecutors. His father, Robert Rosett, 77, and two Detroit Police Department officers took similar plea deals for their involvement in the scheme that prosecutors say ran from at least July 2012 to April 2018.
Under the plea deal, Jayson Rosett admitted to owning and operating a Birmingham-based company called Accident Information Bureau that was in the business of collecting crash victims' information from police reports that had been illegally obtained from Detroit Police before they were publicly available.
Defendants Carol Almeranti, 59, and Karen Miller, 58, provided those DPD crash reports to the Rosetts in exchange for money that totaled more than $375,000, according to the plea agreement.
The separate lawsuit was filed by Allstate Insurance Co., and claimed Morse's firm "frequently received police reports from Rosett to get leads for potential clients," the story claims. What's more, the lawyers should have known they were illegally obtained, because they were stamped "unapproved report."
Morse's attorney has previously said, "There is no evidence that Morse knew his law office was given police reports that were improperly obtained by others ... None."
