Fake Insurance Broker Receives 70-Month Sentence

A man who pretended to be an insurance broker and collected more than $1.2 million in premiums on fictitious policies has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison. Paul Alexander Robertson was also ordered to pay $868,836 in restitution for defrauding customers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. He was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Little Rock on May 31. Robertson, who was also known as Steven Mayberry, pleaded guilty in August to one count of mail fraud. He admitted to using a fake name and false business names with a Little Rock post office box to collect premiums on fictit...