NC tobacco broker sentenced to 5 years for fraud

 

(AP) A North Carolina tobacco broker will spend 5 1/2 years in federal prison and must repay more than $13 million for cheating the federal crop insurance program.
... The case comes as federal investigators break up a massive scheme by dozens of eastern North Carolina insurance agents, claims adjusters, brokers and farmers to steal at least $100 million from the government-backed crop insurance program.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/03/21/2769234/nc-tobacco-broker-sentenced-to.html#storylink=cpy

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