Agent Gets 37 Months in Federal Prison for Stealing Premiums

A former North Carolina insurance agent will serve 37 months in prison and pay more than $1 million in restitution after his conviction on fraud charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina announced.Calvin Mitchell McKeel, 69, an insurance agent licensed by the North Carolina Department of Insurance for more than 35 years, pleaded guilty in July 2007 to conspiring to defraud insurance companies and insurance customers and committing mail fraud in connection with the insurance fraud scheme, according to a press release by Gretchen C.F. Shappert, U.S. Attor...