A notorious public adjuster, already in prison for scamming Louisiana and Texas residents out of insurance proceeds, last week pleaded guilty to defrauding Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. and a Georgia church out of millions of dollars after the church was damaged by Hurricane Michael in 2018.
Andrew Aga, also known as Andrew Mitchell, of Kemah, Texas, now faces as much as 30 years in prison, plus restitution and a $1 million fine, according to his plea agreement in federal court in Georgia. The adjuster faced similar charges of scamming Louisiana and Texas homeowners, churches and others of millions of dollars in insurance payments, and in 2023 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for some of those scams.
“It is disheartening to see someone willing to defraud a place of worship in the wake of a major natural disaster, especially when its congregation trusted the defendant and all those involved to act lawfully and help them repair their historic downtown facility after Hurricane Michael,” Acting U.S. Attorney Shanelle Booker, of the Middle District of Georgia, said about the Georgia church fraud…