KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
A Kansas City, Mo., man will spend the next four years in federal prison after being sentenced in a $1.1 million insurance fraud conspiracy scheme.
Michael Stuart Smith will also have to pay nearly $41,000 in restitution to victims.
The scheme involved making false claims of injuries suffered in car accidents.
Court documents state the case was part of an investigation by the FBI into Lawrence Lawhorn, of Columbia, Mo.
Lawhorn was accused of recruiting “friends, acquittances, family, and friends of friends to participate in the staged accidents,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release.
Documents state the conspirators submitted false claims to insurance companies that they suffered injuries.
Smith pleaded guilty in April 2022 to participating in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to participating in a conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
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He admitted to participating in two staged car crashes.
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