

GUA paid McKaig's company approximately $370,000. McKaig believed he was doing legitimate work helping homeowners who had potential water damage claims. attorney.Ĭompany C was Mitigating Solutions, operated by Sonya McKaig's husband Steve. Beck - that company A (Green Technology Services) was actually providing the inspections,” said the U.S. “The operator of company B (Lucca Lu LLC) believed - based on representations by Mr. US attorney BJ PAK says GUA paid Lucca Lu a total of $908,000 and she kept a portion for her legitimate work, and then paid Barfield's company the rest - thinking it was his company that did the home inspections. McKaig actually did work - examining home inspections to determine if GUA should raise premiums or change coverage on customer’s homes. it's all allegations, and I hope he can prove his innocence."Ĭompany B in the indictment was Lucca Lu, set up and run by Sonya McKaig - a longtime family friend of Beck and his wife. "If I thought I was doing something wrong, do you think I'd open up a checking account.
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He pointed out that he got a business license in Georgia when he started, later incorporated his company in Florida when he moved, and paid all his taxes. “10 percent of the funds being kept by company A (Green Technology Services) The remaining 90% of the funds flowing to Creative Consultants, again, which the grand jury alleges was controlled by Jim Beck,” said BJay Pak the day the indictment was announced.īarfield told me he thought it was all on the up and up he trusted his cousin.

According to the indictment, Beck approached Barfield and told him he had a new way to "do home inspections" and wanted Barfield to handle "the books."īarfield created invoices and submitted bills to Georgia Underwriting Association who would then make payments to various companies. Matt Barfield admitted to us it was his company and Beck was his cousin.īarfield told us the company was Jim Beck's idea. The FOX 5 I-Team has learned Company A was Green Technology Services originally run out of a home in Temple, Georgia. attorney only as companies A, B, C, and D. The companies were identified by the U.S. Some of that inspection and underwriting work is now at the center of the Beck indictment. A GUA source told us when Beck took over he began an ambitious project to survey existing and new homes insured by GUA. Jim Beck was general manager of the legislatively created insurance company called Georgia Underwriting Association or GUA.
