N.Y.-Based Russell Bond Names Senior Broker

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Buffalo, N.Y.-based insurance wholesaler Russell Bond & Co. Inc. recently appointed Les Dalmata as senior broker operating from the Utica, N.Y. area.

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N.J.-based Broker McIntyre Group Announces Promotion

April 12, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

The McIntyre Group, a Cherry Hill, N.J.-based insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting firm, promoted Brian Hall to vice president.


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Broker Admits Funneling Over $1M in Bribes to N.J. School Official

April 3, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

A Maryland insurance broker has admitted making more than $1 million in bribes to a former school superintendent in southern New Jersey.

Seventy-year-old Francis X. Gartland of Baltimore pleaded guilty Monday to charges of mail fraud, conspiracy to defraud the IRS and perjury.

Gartland admitted paying Toms River Regional Superintendent Michael Ritacco between $1 million and $2 million from 2002 to 2010 as part of a scheme to keep his contract as the district’s insurance broker. He also admitted using straw donors in 2007 to make illegal campaign contributions to Joseph Vas, the former Perth Amboy mayor who was running for Congress at the time.

Gartland could get more than 20 years in prison when he’s sentenced July 9.

Ritacco’s trial is scheduled to begin April 9.

 

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