More than a year after he was charged, a Georgia businessman known as “Dr. Taxes” has been indicted for posing as an insurance agent and swiping hundreds of thousands of dollars in workers’ compensation premiums.
Emmanual Torres-Cruz, 35, was indicted by a Colquitt County grand jury on 23 counts of insurance fraud, the Georgia Board of Workers’ Compensation said in a bulletin. The board did not explain if Torres was set to be arrested again, and the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that he had not been booked into jail since last year.
The investigation began in February 2024, after the board received a tip that Torres was allegedly misrepresenting himself as an insurance agent and a certified public accountant. He reportedly accepted premium payments for multiple workers’ comp policies that he never procured with carriers, the board said.
Anyone who may have purchased coverage from Torres is asked to contact the board at (404) 657 7285 or (800) 533-0682.
The Torres indictment came two months after another Georgia man was charged with posing as an insurance agent and selling falsified certificates of insurance on workers’ comp policies. In that case, the man was also charged years ago but was not prosecuted, according to court records.
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