LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — A Lakeland woman was charged Tuesday after police said she ended a call to an insurance company with the words, “Delay, Deny, Depose.”
In an arrest affidavit, the Lakeland Police Department said officers were contacted by the FBI on Tuesday, Dec. 10 regarding an alleged threat made over the phone.
Briana Boston, 42, had reportedly placed a call to BlueCross BlueShield regarding recent medical insurance claims she was denied. The entire phone call was recorded, according to the affidavit.
Near the end of the call, investigators said Boston could be heard stating, “Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next.” The first three words are similar to those written on the ammunition that a gunman used in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last week.
The affidavit noted the similarities between the incidents, stating that those words have become nationally recognized as a phrase “directed against insurance companies.”
Police made contact with Boston at her home in Lakeland, where she reportedly admitted to using those words during the call, telling detectives that “healthcare companies played games and deserved karma from the world because they are evil.”
Boston reportedly told detectives she used the phrase “because it’s what is in the news right now,” and that she had learned of the phrase due to the UnitedHealthcare homicide.
However, Boston added that she does not own any firearms and “was not a danger to anyone,” police said.
Based on Boston’s statements, investigators said they believed she meant to threaten the insurance company “by using the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s homicide to her advantage.”
Boston was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, according to the affidavit.
A judge set her bond at $100,000, stating, “I do find that the bond of $100,000 is appropriate considering the status of our country at this point.”
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She needs a jury trial… huge over reach by the pigs.
Also, be careful out there folks. Never admit anything to the pigs.
Did you really think class war gonna be that easy?
And remind me again, that was based off of the insurance company’s own motto of “delay, deny, dispose”? After all we’re just a disposable product to them, right?
Excellent point. They are able to do these things while we can’t even say them out loud when they do it.
It’s “delay, deny, defend.” I don’t think it’s any insurance company’s motto. That’d be pretty fucking brazen if it was! The impression I got was that it was used by opponents of insurance companies to describe their practices. (See book with that title.)
The gunman replaced “defend” with “depose” for obvious reasons.
I actually read something this week stating this the gunman’s words were based on some actual thing the insurance companies use. Of course it wouldn’t be any official motto, but behind the scenes we’re all pretty aware that we’re nothing but numbers to these companies.
That’s the point they can behave like that but we can’t call them on it.