Wonder why this thieving, unscrupulous cheat didn’t have his agent/broker license revoked permanently. East Amherst is a very nice suburb of Buffalo and I’m sure he’ll appreciate staying at home this fall, catching up on home projects and preparing for the holidays. Our illustrous legal system strikes again.
He probably wouldn’t last the six months in real prison. Maybe publish a huge pix of him in the local ‘burban newspaper so everyone avoids him. Might be a better lesson.
No question the agent did wrong, and should suffer some consequences for it. Having to pay full restitution will be onerous, and a hardship, I’m sure – but the monies will be repaid. Do all of you folks get this upset with all the crooked politicians who “steal” your tax monies with no-show and/or no-work jobs, for themselves or relatives, or when they take monies from special interests?
AMC: “having to pay restitution will be onerous”???? What the hell, he stole that money and defrauded his friends and neighbors. It should be onerous. What he did was onerous. Is he going pay interest on the restitution? You make him sound like some poor guy who made a mistake. That’s what’s wrong with our country. Nobody wants to be the bad guy and get tough with people like this. The politicians we all know are problems. And yes, I get just as angry about them.
Restitution, penalties, interest and license revocation. So what if he’s on house arrest – you can sell insurance from home. They need to make this onerous to deter others.
Are any of you folks this angry with, or demanding the most severe penalties of fines and license suspensions for the big broker houses that engaged in bid-rigging? I haven’t seen any agent, or association, call for license revocations. Yes, Spitzer was way off base on contingent commissions paid to agents under normal circumstances, and he used this issue as one to get him elected, but even he didn’t pursue revocations, did he?
brokers who plead guilty to crimes under pressure of the Spitzer office have lost their licenses andhave been blacklisted from the industry. That is pretty rough
$132,000 is a hugh amount. I’m thinking this was not a one shot error. I heard of an agent who took $32,000 over a couple years and did 5 years in jail plus lost his license and his family. We need to make sure these people get punished and don’t tarnish the honest insurance agents reputation.
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Wonder why this thieving, unscrupulous cheat didn’t have his agent/broker license revoked permanently. East Amherst is a very nice suburb of Buffalo and I’m sure he’ll appreciate staying at home this fall, catching up on home projects and preparing for the holidays. Our illustrous legal system strikes again.
What a double standard…We’ll send a low level drug dealer to jail for 10 years but the white collar crook in this case gets off scott free..
This agent should be doing 10 years in a real prison!!
He probably wouldn’t last the six months in real prison. Maybe publish a huge pix of him in the local ‘burban newspaper so everyone avoids him. Might be a better lesson.
The only way to get the sentences increased in these types of white collar thefts is for a high profile person to get caught.
No question the agent did wrong, and should suffer some consequences for it. Having to pay full restitution will be onerous, and a hardship, I’m sure – but the monies will be repaid. Do all of you folks get this upset with all the crooked politicians who “steal” your tax monies with no-show and/or no-work jobs, for themselves or relatives, or when they take monies from special interests?
AMC: “having to pay restitution will be onerous”???? What the hell, he stole that money and defrauded his friends and neighbors. It should be onerous. What he did was onerous. Is he going pay interest on the restitution? You make him sound like some poor guy who made a mistake. That’s what’s wrong with our country. Nobody wants to be the bad guy and get tough with people like this. The politicians we all know are problems. And yes, I get just as angry about them.
Restitution, penalties, interest and license revocation. So what if he’s on house arrest – you can sell insurance from home. They need to make this onerous to deter others.
Are any of you folks this angry with, or demanding the most severe penalties of fines and license suspensions for the big broker houses that engaged in bid-rigging? I haven’t seen any agent, or association, call for license revocations. Yes, Spitzer was way off base on contingent commissions paid to agents under normal circumstances, and he used this issue as one to get him elected, but even he didn’t pursue revocations, did he?
brokers who plead guilty to crimes under pressure of the Spitzer office have lost their licenses andhave been blacklisted from the industry. That is pretty rough
$132,000 is a hugh amount. I’m thinking this was not a one shot error. I heard of an agent who took $32,000 over a couple years and did 5 years in jail plus lost his license and his family. We need to make sure these people get punished and don’t tarnish the honest insurance agents reputation.