article_snippet: And, prosecutors say, his and his wife began planning his fake death to scam almost $8 million from insurance companies.
article_snippet: No matter how the criminal case turns out, his arrest gives a resolute end to a long-running court battle between Lantigua's family and insurance companies that refused to pay off on his life policies because, for many reasons proven right, he and his wife didn't think his was dead. '
article_snippet: Lantigua's family began filing life insurance claims for the nearly $8 million in policies he'd obtained.
article_snippet: Meanwhile, American General Life Companies had suspicions about the $2 million claim Lantigua's son, Joseph, had filed, particularly the Venezuelan death and cremation certificates accompanying it.