McKown v. United States

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA HAMMOND DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Cause No. 2:16-CR-178-PPS-JEM ) GEORGE R. MCKOWN, ) ) Defendant. ) OPINION AND ORDER George R. McKown, a former licensed insurance agent, operated an insurance business called McKown & Associates in Indiana. [DE 338 at ¶5.] Beginning in 2008, McKown and his associate Richard Gearhart, also an insurance agent, pitched to their insurance clients the sale of unregistered securities from Asset Preservation Specialists (“APS”), a shared company they controlled. [Id.] McKown…