United States v. Ferrarini

OPINION

COTE, District Judge.

This case, for which the Grand Jury returned an indictment on September 25,1997, and a superseding indictment on January 8, 1998, concerns allegations of various crimes arising out of the operation of Underwriters Financial Group, Inc. (“Underwriters”), a publicly traded company which collapsed in the summer of 1995, and two of its subsidiaries, BRI Coverage Corporation and UFG International, Inc. (collectively “UFG”), through which Underwriters operated its insurance brokerage business. As an insurance broker, UFG, among other things, obtained insurance policies…