In Attempt To Collect On Disability Policy, Fraud Convict Had Son Shoot Him

An Oregon developer serving a 10-year prison term in a mortgage-fraud scheme was sentenced Wednesday to nearly four more years because he ordered his teenage son to shoot him in the legs in a failed effort to collect on a disability insurance policy. Shannon Egeland was vice president of a development company that orchestrated tens of millions of dollars in mortgage fraud during last decade’s real estate boom and bust. A judge ordered him to federal prison on Aug. 1, 2014, to begin serving a 10-year sentence. The day before he was to report, he was wounded in a roadside shooting near Caldwell, Idaho.