Oct 4, 2013 4 min read

WAYNESBURG – A Rices Landing optometrist who served prison time in 2011 for tax evasion now faces fraud charges related to automobile insurance claims three years earlier.

The state attorney general’s office Wednesday charged Dr. David Pokorski Alan, 67, of 100 Grandview Heights, with two counts of filing a false, fraudulent or incomplete insurance claim, theft by deception and forgery.

According to a criminal complaint filed with Greene County Magisterial District Judge Glenn Bates, Alan wrecked his 1966 Cobra kit car in late 2008 and filed claims with both State Farm Insurance and American National Property and Casualty Company for the accident.

Alan is the now owner and operator of Alan Auto Sports, a company that builds Factory Five Kit Cars, according to investigators.

According to an investigator with the attorney general’s officie, Cheryl Rusko, one of Alan’s former personal assistants, recalled an accident involving the 1966 Cobra kit car where a claim was filed with State Farm Insurance Co. for a total loss. Another assistant, Krystal Fauvie, said she also remembered an accident involving this same vehicle where Alan drove the car from his driveway, through a neighbor’s bushes, through a tree and into the neighbor’s house.

Fauvie told investigators a claim was submitted under either Alan Auto Sports or the corporate name, Pouvoir.

She said an estimate for the damages to the vehicle was acquired by Wade’s Body and Frame Shop in Waynesburg for approximately $13,000. Allegedly, Alan complained to her about the estimate because he felt the car was certainly worth more than that.

Fauvie said Wade’s explained that since this was a kit car and not an original 1966 Cobra, they could order all of the parts to make it like new. Fauvie told the investigator that Alan disagreed with the low estimate and directed her to pull an old estimate from his files from Volker’s Auto Body.

Fauvie said she gave an old handwritten estimate to Alan that was on a Volker’s estimate form. A short while later, she allegedly saw the estimate and noticed that it has been whited out and new information for the Cobra was on it. She said she realized that Alan had typed information on the form to reflect repair costs for the Cobra that were considerably higher than Wade’s estimate. According to the complaint, Fauvie said she was certain that the estimate was drafted by Alan and not by someone at Volker’s Auto Body.

Jeff Volker, owner of the auto body company, indicated all estimates are prepared by him without the aid of a computer.

Volker said he looked at the copy of an estimate for repairs to the 1966 Cobra kit car provided by both ANPAC and State Farm Insurance and said he did not prepare the estimate. First, it was typewritten, which he never does, he said. Second, the way in which the items were charged was nothing like the way he does it, he added. Volker said he did not inspect the vehicle when it was wrecked for purposes of an estimate.

A special investigator for State Farm Insurance reported that the company paid a $35,379.40 claim to Alan based on what he said was Volker’s estimate, when the actual estimate from Wade’s was $14,240.

Meanwhile, Alan was sentenced to 21 months in prison in September 2011 for understating his income on tax returns for 2001 and 2002, and failing to file returns at all for 2003 and 2004. The IRS claimed Alan had a taxable income of $892,675 during those years but he only paid $3,045 in taxes when he actually owed $221,971.

At one time Alan operated eye care offices in Waynesburg, Masontown and Connellsville,

A preliminary hearing on the frau charges is scheduled for 2 p.m. Oct. 10 before Bates. Alan is free on $20,000 unsecured bond.