DES MOINES, IA – Christina M. Pender, a former Iowa resident, and Robert K. Taylor, a California resident, have pled guilty to defrauding insurance company AIG out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
According to court documents, Pender, who was an AIG insurance adjuster located in West Des Moines, Iowa, approved payments to companies owned by Taylor for expert services that were never provided. Taylor’s companies were based in California, where he resided, and included TEI Group Associates, Inc., TEI Group, Inc., and Equitable Consulting Solutions.
Pender also approved payments for expert services that were not provided to another Iowa-based company, MDP Group, which was owned, in part, by her then-boyfriend. All of the alleged services were supposed to be for consulting in furtherance of AIG’s handling of construction defect claims that were in litigation.
In total, Pender admitted that she approved approximately $925,406 in payments by AIG for services that were not provided. Taylor received $666,128.98 of those payments.
Pender faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Taylor faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a fine of $1 million.
The wire fraud case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.
The case was first reported on May 21, 2013, when a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Iowa indicted Pender and Taylor for wire fraud.
Pender pled guilty on April 17, 2014, and Taylor pled guilty on August 27, 2014.
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Key Facts
- State: Iowa
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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