{"id":259075,"date":"2013-05-22T14:27:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T19:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=259075"},"modified":"2013-05-23T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:10:39","slug":"gregg-county-lawyer-sentenced-for-mail-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=259075","title":{"rendered":"Gregg County Lawyer Sentenced for Mail Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=259078\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-259078\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/05\/thumb_tyler-federalbuilding1-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_tyler-federalbuilding\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-259078\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 A 55-year-old Longview lawyer has been sentenced to federal prison for mail fraud. Steven Rushing pleaded guilty February 15 He as sentenced in Tyler to 41 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Michael H. Schneider. Rushing was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $929,076.29.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>According to federal authorities, beginning in January 2007, Rushing devised a scheme to defraud insurance companies and health care providers using the United States mail to execute the scheme. Rushing\u2019s scheme involved providing legal representation to clients injured in accidents. Rushing negotiated settlements with civil defendants or a potential civil defendant\u2019s insurance provider. <\/p>\n<p>While negotiating final settlement amounts, Rushing would represent to his clients and the insurance providers that he would use a portion of the settlement proceeds to pay for some, or all, of his client\u2019s outstanding medical bills. Once Rushing received the settlement check, he would deposit it into his account and provide his client with a \u201cDisclosure Statement\u201d detailing the manner in which the total settlement was to be distributed. Rushing would give a check to the client for the \u201cclient net\u201d agreed upon amount and execute checks payable to his client\u2019s medical providers. <\/p>\n<p>However, Rushing would not actually send the medical providers their checks, instead converting that portion of the settlement proceeds for his own personal use. For instance, Rushing admitted that on June 20, 2011, he sent a letter to Farmers Insurance representing that he would use funds from a proposed settlement to pay off \u201cany and all hospital, health insurance, and\/or Medicaid\/Medicare liens\u201d in order to secure a specific settlement in the amount of $6,836.00, when in fact, Rushing never intended to pay the liens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 A 55-year-old Longview lawyer has been sentenced to federal prison for mail fraud. Steven Rushing pleaded guilty February 15 He as sentenced in Tyler to 41 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Michael H. Schneider. Rushing was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $929,076.29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 09:31:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259075"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259373,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259075\/revisions\/259373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}