The state insurance commissioner\u2019s office investigators appear to have broken a fraud case involving more than $1 million and five elderly men and women ranging in age from 74 to 90.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
According to the commissioner\u2019s office spokesman Rich Roesler, investigators from the insurance commissioner\u2019s office and State Patrol troopers arrested Jasmine Jamrus-Kassim, who was living in Kent, Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Roesler said she has been booked into King County jail on 21 counts of first-degree theft. Jamrus-Kassim was booked and released Tuesday after posting bond on $100,000 bail, according to county jail records.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Roesler said the alleged crime came to the insurance office\u2019s attention through a complaint.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe get more than 100,000 complaints each year,\u201d Roesler said. \u201cIn this case the son of an 80-year-old man came to us. He had been going through his father\u2019s finances and saw a check for $30,000, another for $30,000 and one for $50,000. His father asked him for help.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Roesler said the man and other victims thought they were shifting money to other investments. The checks were made out to S.A. Saad.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
According to a release from the commissioner\u2019s office, many of the people thought S.A. Saad was an insurance company.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
After the first complaint, a second complaint was filed with the department from a 90-year-old Renton woman, which alerted the investigators. Jamrus-Kassim returned about $25,000 to the Renton woman after she complained to the insurance commissioner.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Jamrus-Kassim had been working for Bankers Life and Casualty. She resigned from Bankers Life Jan 13.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very interested in making these people whole,\u201d Roesler said. \u201cThere is still a lot of investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Roesler said the investigators are looking into \u201cwhat if any liability there is with Bankers Life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an appalling abuse of trust,\u201d Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said in a release. \u201cVulnerable people trusted this agent with much of their life\u2019s savings. And she just pocketed the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
According to the release, Jamrus-Kassim has two daughters with the initials and surname S.A. Saad. The money was deposited into the daughters\u2019 accounts, then moved in Jamrus-Kassim\u2019s personal credit union account.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Jamrus-Kassim is believed by investigators to have spent the money on clothes, jewelery and a trip to Mexico. Her financial records also show payments to online psychic advisors. The release noted there was a $20,000 charge from a psychic website in a one-month period of time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The list of victims provided by the commissioner\u2019s office include an 80-year-old Bellevue man for $130,000; a Seattle man, 75, for $60,021; a Renton woman, 74, for $484,564; and an 83-year-old Seattle man for $352,000.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The state insurance commissioner\u2019s office investigators appear to have broken a fraud case involving more than $1 million and five elderly men and women ranging in age from 74 to 90.<\/p>\n
According to the commissioner\u2019s office spokesman Rich Roesler, investigators from the insurance commissioner\u2019s office and State Patrol troopers arrested Jasmine Jamrus-Kassim, who was living in Kent, Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9970"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}