Aggravated life settlement fraud · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 176.70 Aggravated life settlement fraud.
A person is guilty of aggravated life settlement fraud when he or she commits a fraudulent life settlement act, and has been previously convicted within the preceding five years of any offense, an essential element of which is the commission of a fraudulent life settlement act.
Aggravated life settlement fraud is a class D felony.
A person commits aggravated life settlement fraud by committing a fraudulent life settlement act after having been convicted within the preceding 5 years of an offense whose essential elements include such an act. ★ It is a class D felony.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.