Insurance man jailed for cheating US actor
AP November 5, 2013, 7:05 pm
An insurance broker who scammed US actor Tom Hanks and his wife has been jailed for 27 months. PAA
A Southern California insurance broker who overcharged Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, hundreds of thousands of dollars has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison.
City News Service says Jerry Goldman received a 27-month sentence on Monday. He also was ordered to pay about $US840,000 ($A885,282) in restitution.
Prosecutors claimed that between 1998 and 2011, Goldman inflated premiums by as much as 600 per cent and created phoney invoices to hide the scam.
The original indictment claimed that Goldman also bilked others including Andy Summers, the former guitarist for The Police.
The 60-year-old Thousand Oaks man pleaded guilty in April to mail fraud involving Hanks and Wilson.
