Denis Vladimirovich Molla was a proud Trump supporter. He had “Trump 2020” flags flying from his two trucks and another draped over his garage. Then one night, a fire broke out and burned his camper, his garage, and two trucks to the ground. Someone spray-painted “Biden 2020,” “BLM,” and an anarchy symbol associated with antifa across the front of the burned-out garage. Molla reported the arson and vandalism to his insurance company and even launched two GoFundMe pages to raise money for his losses. The problem is that two years later, it’s been uncovered that he was the culprit.
According to The Washington Post, Molla, 29, was charged on Tuesday with two counts of wire fraud after filing a fake insurance claim, and for raising money online that he then put into his personal account.
CBS News reports that court documents show Molla "submitted multiple insurance claims seeking coverage for the damage to his garage, camper, vehicles, and residence caused by the fire."
Molla filed a $300,000 claim with his insurance. He received about $61,000. He also used donations from his “Patriots for the Mollas” GoFundMe to deposit over $17,000 in his bank account, the Post reports.
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After the alleged incident, Molla told CBS News he saw three people running from his home just after 3 AM on Sept. 23, 2020.
"Our family's safe, that's the main thing. All this is material, it's all material. It's not as important as our family," Molla said at the time. "We're just very happy to be alive, and praise God that we're alive,” said Deana Molla, Denis’ wife.
In charging documents, prosecutors said, “In reality, as Molla well knew, Molla started his own property on fire, Molla spray-painted the graffiti on his own property and there were no unknown males near his home.”
But Molla was brazen. Patch Minnesota reports he threatened to report his insurance company to the Department of Commerce and to the attorney general after they denied some of his claims.
Perhaps Molla took a page from the Stephen Marks’ playbook. In 2017, Marks confessed to spray-painting playground equipment at a school in West Hartford, Connecticut, and blaming it on Democrats.
Marks wrote "Kill Trump," "Left is the best," "Bernie Sanders 2020," and "Death to Trump.” He was later ordered to stay away from the school and then charged with third-degree criminal mischief and breach of peace, the Hartford Courant reports.