The Associated Press
COVINGTON — A former insurance broker from Florence has pleaded guilty to stealing $571,000 from his clients.
James Pullen admitted in a plea agreement Monday he used his clients’ health-care premium payments to cover his company’s expenses from July 2003 until November 2004. He operated Triple Crown Financial Group.
Pullen peddled a self-funded health-care benefit program to Northern Kentucky companies such as James W. Berling Engineering in Fort Wright.
The Kentucky Enquirer reports the indictment handed down last month does not name the other companies Pullen defrauded. He has remained free on his own recognizance.
Pullen, who now lives in Alpharetta, Ga., faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced April 20.
An Indianapolis man was arrested early today after attempting to steal an automated teller machine.
Gary Lee Miller, 23, was charged with theft by unlawful taking over $300 and second-degree fleeing and evading police at around 4 a.m. at the Holiday Inn University Plaza, 1021 Wilkinson Trace, according to a Bowling Green Police Department report.
Read the full story in the Bowling Green Daily News.
State police have arrested a couple on charges of the theft of $214,000.
George Michael True, 33, and his wife, Angela M. True, 32, were arrested Tuesday and approximately $168,000 in cash was recovered after a search of the couple’s home in Milton, in Trimble County. The Trues are originally from Madison, Ind., but they had been renting a home on Agin Way in Milton, across the Ohio River from Madison.
The Trues were charged with theft by deception and theft by failure to make required disposition of money, according to a news release from the Campbellsburg state police post.
They are accused of scamming a man out of his money. Police said the man was promised companionship with Angela True. Angela True and the man were supposed to buy a home in Florida. Investigators determined that the home did not exist. Police said George Michael True acted as Angela True’s brother to assist with the scam.
The Trues were being held Friday at the Carroll County Regional Detention Center.
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