Second Brother Sentenced in Multi-Million Dollar Insurance Fraud Scheme

A former insurance agent of One Stop Insurance Agency was sentenced today to 101 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $20,056,054.67 in restitution for his role in defrauding two finance companies.

Ariana Fajardo Orshan, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, made the announcement.

Stuart Alan Starr, 62, formerly of North Miami Beach, pled guilty in April 2019, to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and five counts of wire fraud. In August 2018, his brother Glen Wayne Starr pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and later in October 2018, received the same sentence as Stuart Alan Starr.

According to documents filed with the court and statements made in court during the plea and sentencing, Stuart Alan Starr and his brother, Glen Wayne Starr, from March 1990 to August 2015, operated One Stop Insurance Agency, Inc. The company was located at 17088 West Dixie Highway, North Miami Beach, Florida 33160. Both Starr brothers were licensed insurance agents with the state of Florida. One Stop was an approved agent of Progressive Insurance Company, Castle Point and Lloyds of London and authorized to write insurance policies underwritten by those carriers. One Stop specialized in offering liability and cargo insurance policies to independent truckers and small trucking companies for coverage of trucks, tractor-trailers and heavy equipment. Since the premiums for this type of coverage was often extremely expensive, when small trucking carriers could not afford the large lump sum payments for those premiums, One Stop would arrange to have the truckers or trucking companies finance the premiums through loans obtained from one of several finance companies with which One Stop worked. These finance companies included Pro Premium Finance Company, Standard Premium Finance Management, Corporation, and DAB Premium Finance, LLC.

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