More than a decade after he defrauded elderly clients of nearly $2 million, a 41-year-old Utah man on Thursday was sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to repay the money he stole.
Police arrested Brian Smart, of Lehi, in 2012 in connection with a 2008 investigation by the California Department of Insurance. Investigators started looking into him after victims complained they never received money from Smart, who they’d hired as an insurance agent, according to a news release from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
Between May 2005 and March 2006, Smart took $1,810,508 from his clients.