Beavercreek insurance agent must pay $200K to clients in theft sentence

Greene County Courthouse

Greene County Courthouse

A Beavercreek insurance agent who defrauded clients was sentenced to probation and will have to pay nearly $200,000 in restitution.

Beverly Kirk, 66, was sentenced Wednesday to five years of probation by Greene County Common Pleas Judge Dennis Langer after she pleaded guilty March 7 to two counts of grand theft and one count of false representation in the sale of security, according to court records.

She also was ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution to one victim and $95,000 to another.

Beverly Ann Kirk. Photo courtesy the Greene County Prosecutor's Office.

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A grand jury indicted Kirk last April on 36 counts of securities fraud, unlicensed securities activity, theft, theft from a person in a protected class and securing writings by deception.

She reportedly convinced three clients to invest at least $235,000 in nonexistent jumbo certificates of deposit and investments and then used the money for her own use.

In sentencing records, Langer wrote community control sanctions are an appropriate sentence because Kirk is unlikely to reoffend.

If Kirk violates the terms of her probation, she could face six to 18 months in prison for the grand theft convictions and nine to 36 months for the false representation in the sale of security conviction, according to court documents.

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