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I-Team: Company Owners Devastated by What They Say is Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck's "Betrayal"
now a story we broke on fox 5 atlanta
dot-com an i-team investigation of
Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck's
indictment lays out in an alleged theft
scheme involving family friends and a
radio station owner a senior i-team
reporter Dale Russell has a breakdown of
the new developments grand jury alleges
that the individual with the initials MB
and company a would submit an invoice to
Georgia underwriting Association for
payment the Fox 5 i-team has learned
company a was Green technology services
a company once located at this house in
Temple Georgia Matt Barfield admitted it
was his company and he since moved
Barfield says he is Jim Beck's cousin
Marvel told me the company was Beck's
idea according to the indictment Beck
told him he had a new way to do home
inspections and wanted Barfield to
handle the books marvel created invoices
like this one obtained by the Fox 5
i-team and submitted bills to Georgia
underwriting Association who would then
make these payments 10 percent of the
funds being kept by company a and
remaining 90 percent of the funds
flowing to creative consultants which
again the grand jury alleges was
controlled by Jim back mark Fennell told
me that he thought everything was on the
up and up and he trusted his cousin he
pointed out that he got this business
license when he started and later
incorporated his company in Florida when
he moved if I thought I was doing
something wrong do you think I'd open up
a checking account
the FBI has every bit of it he added I
really thought a lot of Jim it's all
allegations and I hope he can prove his
innocence
Company B was looky-loo set up and run
by Sonia McCaig a longtime family friend
of Beck and his wife this is her with
the Becks on a trip to Italy
Sonia McKay actually did work examining
home inspections to determine if
premiums on G you as customers home
insurance should be raised US attorney
BJ Pak says G you a paid Luc Alou a
total of nine hundred and eight thousand
dollars and miss McCaig kept a portion
for her legitimate work
and then paid Barfield company the rest
thinking it was bar fields company that
did the home inspections the operator of
Company B believe based on
representations by mr. Beck that company
a was actually providing the inspections
company C mitigation services operated
by Sonia McKay's husband Steve mikeg
believed he was doing legitimate work
helping homeowners who had potential
water damage claims Georgia underwriting
paid McKay's company approximately three
hundred seventy thousand dollars he
would take his portion then send the
rest to Barr fields company known as
Company A in the indictment the company
ain't kept ten percent of that and
remaining portions would go to creative
consultants which of course Granger
alleges that mr. Beck had control over
the McCabe's issued this statement
saying they did substantial legitimate
work entrusted Beck who took elaborate
measures to conceal from us his illegal
scheme they add his malicious and
predatory actions have inflicted
tremendous emotional pain on our family
Beks lawyer responded that Beck and his
wife are deeply saddened that the
McCabe's have been dragged into this
unfortunate situation and that they've
only heard the government side of the
story and could be convinced they were
betrayed by a friend but that's not the
truth here
so who operated the final company
Company D in the indictment according to
the Secretary of State's office in
January of 2013 a company called
paperless solutions was incorporated at
this address here in Bowden Georgia the
registered agent of the company Steven
graddic hi I'm Steve Craddock graddic is
shown in this video promoting the radio
stations he owns in Carrollton he would
not return our calls or respond to an
email the Fox 5 i-team has seen a copy
of a federal grand jury subpoena that
shows the grand jury wanted all records
between various companies alleged in the
scheme including paperless solutions the
indictment alleges Beck told company d
owner that's Steve graddic he could keep
10% of every payment that Georgia
underwriting made to his company in
total the grand jury has alleged that
between
February 2013 and August of 2018 mr.
Baek defrauded the GU a out of more than
two million dollars Dale Russell Fox 5
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