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Date: 05-18-2024
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Case Number: 23-CR-00282
Judge: Jennifer G. Zipps
Court: The United States District Court for the District of Arizona (Pima County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: The United States Attorney’s Office in Tucson
Defendant's Attorney: Efthymios Stefanos Katsarelis
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Tucson, Arizona criminal defense lawyer Efthymios Stefanos Katsarelis represented the Defendant charged with
Former Arizona Licensed Insurance Agent Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding Elderly Clients
Victoria Totten, 72, of Green Valley, was sentenced to 21 months in prison. Totten pleaded guilty to Mail Fraud on November 8, 2023.
For years, Totten defrauded many of her elderly clients while working as a licensed insurance agent. Totten fraudulently over-collected insurance premium payments by falsely representing the terms of the insurance policies to her clients. Totten falsely claimed that payments should be made in advance to lock in a lower rate. After receiving the funds, instead of transmitting the victims’ premium payments directly to the insurance companies, Totten misused large portions of the victims’ money for her own personal gain and to pay insurance premiums for other clients. To disguise her scheme, Totten used her P.O. box on insurance paperwork so correspondence from insurance companies went to Totten instead of the victims. As part of Totten’s sentence, the court ordered her to pay $114,781 in restitution.
The United States Secret Service conducted the investigation in this case. The United States Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona, Tucson, handled the prosecution.
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