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Former Georgia insurance commissioner sentenced to 7 years
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Jim Beck, commissioner of the Georgia Insurance Department, speaks at a press conference about an insurance fraud bust in a courtroom at the Clayton County Superior Court in Jonesboro, Ga., Friday, March 1, 2019. A federal judge has sentenced former Georgia Insurance Commissioner Beck to more than seven years in prison for fraud. The judge on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, also ordered Beck to pay $2.6 million in restitution to make up for money he stole from an insurer. - photo by Associated Press
ATLANTA — Georgia's former insurance commissioner will spend more than seven years in prison, as he finally accepted responsibility Tuesday for a $2.5 million fraud even as a federal judge lambasted him for lying from the stand during his July trial.
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