BATON ROUGE — A federal jury unanimously convicted two Capital area men of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, among other charges, after a three-day trial.
According to federal prosecutors, 60-year-old Calvin Kemp from Gonzales and 33-year-old Chevez Robillard from Baton Rouge were both found guilty of conspiring to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft when they created a scheme to defraud insurance companies.
Over the course of several months, the pair applied for multiple life and accidental death insurance policies with eight separate insurance providers using the identities of three people. Robillard and Kemp, during the scheme, also established companies with the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office, but the companies never did any business…