A former insurance agent from Cincinnati has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for defrauding dozens of victims in the Cincinnati and Dayton areas.
Seneca Birchmore, 45, of Cincinnati, was found guilty of aggravated identity theft and fraudulently obtaining two COVID Paycheck Protection Program loans.
Birchmore was ordered to pay nearly $147,000 in restitution to several insurance companies, including Americo Financial Life and Annuity Insurance Company ($34,820.37), Columbian Life Insurance Company ($16,604.01), and others.
As part of his sentence, Birchmore was also ordered to pay $41,665 to the U.S. Small Business Administration for the COVID Paycheck Protection Program loans he fraudulently obtained.
The scheme began after Birchmore lost his insurance agent license in 2019 due to writing unauthorized policies to collect commissions.
He then stole the identities of two other insurance agents and used those identities to write more life insurance policies for customers who did not want them.
The commissions for Birchmore’s original fraudulent insurance policies totaled more than $8,000, while the commissions for policies created under the stolen identities of other agents totaled more than $93,000.
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Key Facts
- State: Ohio
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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