A Hendersonville man prosecutors call a “serial fraudster” is headed to Tennessee state prison for 15 years, after a trial that started with a bogus luxury boat deal and unraveled into a wider web of forged documents and suspect money moves.
Chase Brodie Brown, 26, pleaded guilty to multiple fraud, theft, and money laundering charges and will serve his new state sentence after he finishes an existing federal term. Investigators say the Tennessee case grew out of a 2024 probe that began when a high-end wake boat paid for with a bad check suddenly came back to haunt its buyers.
What prosecutors say
Sumner County District Attorney Thomas Dean said Brown pleaded guilty to criminal simulation over $60,000, theft of property over $10,000, criminal simulation over $250,000, and money laundering, according to WSMV. Dean said Brown was already on the radar of federal authorities for what he described as elaborate fraud schemes, and that Brown had previously pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges in Illinois in 2021 while on supervised release, according to the same report…