There are criminals, and then there are criminals who put the lives and livelihoods of their victims at risk.
File Isidro Santillan, a one-time insurance agent from Pacoima, Calif., in the later category.
The California Department of Insurance reported on Monday that Santillan had been arrested in August and charged with 13 counts of grand theft and commercial burglary, with a total haul of over $100,000. His crime seems almost too simplistic to actually work: Santillan allegedly sold insurance policies and bonds to local contractors and simply never forwarded the premiums they paid to the insurance carriers.
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