Kansas Man Sentenced to Prison for Supplemental Medicare Insurance Scam

DES MOINES, IA – On August 21, 2015, Brian Curtis Henton, 38, of Olathe, Kansas, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 12 months and one day in federal prison based on his earlier guilty pleas to two counts of mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Judge Gritzner also ordered Henton to pay $23,300.15 in restitution to Equitable and Cigna insurance companies, and to serve three years of supervised release following his release from federal prison.

According to the plea agreement, from in or about April 2013 until October of 2013, Henton used his Iowa Insurance Producer License and fraudulent applications to sell approximately 120 Equitable and Cigna Supplemental Medicare insurance policies to Kansas residents. Henton admitted that he sold the insurance policies to Kansas residents, but entered false Iowa addresses, false Iowa telephone numbers, and forged applicants’ signatures on the applications when submitted to the insurance companies. As a result of the fraud, Henton received commission payments that he was not entitled to from Equitable and Cigna.

This matter was investigated by the Iowa Insurance Fraud Bureau and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.