Iâve always trusted Jim : Cousin of Georgiaâs Beck talks to FOX 5 after testimony
By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
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Cousin of Jim Beck says he stands by him
The cousin of suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck spoke with the FOX 5 I-Team following his testimony during Beck s federal trial.
ATLANTA - A key witness in the fraud trial involving suspended insurance commissioner Jim Beck said he still stands by his cousin.
Matthew Barfield spoke exclusively with the FOX 5 I-Team after taking the stand on Thursday and said he didn’t do anything wrong. He testified in the courtroom that he created hundreds of thousands of invoices from vendors he never met and when he was paid by Beck’s company, he returns 90 percent of it, mostly in cash to Beck. But outside the courtroom, he insisted he didn’t do anything wrong.
Three testify Georgiaâs Beck directed money flows from insurer
By Jeff Amy
Three testify during Jim Beck trial
A long-time friend of suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck testified he lied to him. The McKaig were close friends with Beck until they got a look at the evidence that federal investigators had gathered against Beck. Then the friendship ended with the McKaigs saying they learned he was embezzling.
ATLANTA - Sonya and Steve McKaig were close friends with Jim Beck until they got a look at the evidence that federal investigators had gathered against the now-suspended Georgia insurance commissioner. Then the friendship ended with the McKaigs saying they learned Beck was embezzling.
3 testify Georgia s Beck directed money flows from insurer
JEFF AMY, Associated Press
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ATLANTA (AP) Sonya and Steve McKaig were close friends with Jim Beck until they got a look at the evidence that federal investigators had gathered against the now-suspended Georgia insurance commissioner. Then the friendship ended with the McKaigs saying they learned Beck was embezzling.
“I believed in Jim Beck,” Steve McKaig testified Wednesday, the second day of Beck s trial in federal court in Atlanta. “I believed he was an honorable man, an honest man with great ideas for Georgia, and he had been my friend.”
The husband and wife testified Tuesday that at Beck s behest they started doing business with the Georgia Underwriting Association. Beck directed they invoice the insurer for hundreds of thousands of dollars on behalf of a company named Green Technology Services, according to the testimony. Then, they said, they sent those checks to Beck.