Brenda K. Buckaloo-Merchant, 46, of Howe, Texas, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, ordered to pay a $3,000 fine plus restitution in the amount of $1,208,316, for stealing that amount from the insurance company she worked for. Buckaloo-Merchant, who was employed by Unitrin Business Insurance Company of Dallas, admitted in a September guilty plea to one first degree felony count, that she wrote checks from Unitrin to a fictitious company she controlled and pocketed the money.Read the story here.
Read the Texas Department of Insurance press release here.
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COME ON. SHE WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE INVOLVED. IN FACT THIS COMPANY HAS A HUGE PROBLEM AND IT GOES WAY HIGHER THAN HER. SHE HAS NEVER BEEN IN ANY TROUBLE IN HER LIFE SHE IS WAY TOO SCARED TO FIGHT. SO THEY GO A WEAK FALL PERSON TO DO SOME TIME. HOPE YOUR PROUD! NOW TWO KIDS ARE LEFT W/O A HOME. INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE THIEVES. AND WORKER COMP, GO BRENDA.
You are exactly what's wrong with our world today. Your generalization that insurance companies are theives is a crack. The reason you insurance premiums go up is because of insurance fraud and everyone has the potential to contributes to insurance fraud. People on the inside and outside of the companies.
Let me give you another perspective since I worked for Unitrin's WC Dept. for over 7 years. We all loved her and thought she loved us. The truth is that not only did she decieve us all but SHE set it up to look as though other people were involved. And if you think I'm wrong then ask your self this, why did she dissapear when Management started auditing files due to suspicious payment activity? She told everyone she was feeling sick one day and never showed back up. I'd say she was sick to death knowing that she was about to be caught. The point is, we all stayed and she went into hinding. We the people you are trying indicate were involved. The people here considered her a sister and a friend and she didn't care. She claimed to do everything in the name of God, imagine how that can taint. Thank God we can all look to Him to get us through this.
As for those two kids, they are better off without her and by the way they have a mother.
So don't give me poor Brenda, please. She got what she deserved!
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